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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

While environmental security remains a hotly contested idea, it is nonetheless an increasingly popular conceptual framing used by global actors who are concerned with stemming the dangerous ramifications of environmental change (Floyd and Matthew 2013). Woodrow Wilson Center Press Deudney, D. Millennium 19 (3): 461-476. Hardt, J.N.,

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

SIDS make up about 1% of the world’s population and face similar economic, social and environmental challenges due to factors including their geographical location, reliance on natural resources and limited industrial activities (Thomas, 2020). Current Issues in Tourism , 13 (5), 495-505. OECD (2022). Johnson, C., & Baptiste, A.

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The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

Vermont Law

In India, the 2013 flash floods in the Kedarnath Valley occurred due to a climate-change-aggravated melting of glaciers triggered by hordes of tourists banking themselves in the mountains yearly. Governments must enforce stringent regulations, conduct carrying capacity assessments, and invest in infrastructure development.

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California Adopts CEQA Guidelines Aimed at Improving Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change Impacts in Environmental Reviews

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4th 832 (2013) (invalidating EIR that based its significance determination partly on comparing the project’s emissions to statewide emissions). of Fish & Wildlife, 62 Cal.4th City of Oroville, 219 Cal.App.4th Energy Impacts and Efficiency. The revised guidelines incorporate a new subdivision on energy impacts (Section 15126.2(b)),

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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Koontz?

Vermont Law

has prompted concerns that it will stifle the compensatory mitigation practices of environmental and natural resources permitting agencies. 2586 (2013). , one deeming it “a blow to sustainable development”. Summary: The Supreme Court’s recent exactions decision in. Johns Water Management District. The form of.

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

House Hearing On Reauthorizing Federal Abandoned Mine Lands Program: We Don’t Deserve To Wait Any Longer For Clean Streams, Diversified Economies -- Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership: Returning Forests To Reclaimed Abandoned Mine Lands -- Trout Stocking On Ten Mile Creek In Greene County With Izaak Walton League Members -- DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanians: (..)