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"Searching for 'Environmental Justice' in EU Environmental Law" KU Leuven
Environmental justice (‘EJ’) receives a lot of attention in the environmental social sciences and in U.S. law. But in Europe, it has so far been largely ignored in legal literature and policy debates, which seems difficult to reconcile with an anthropocentric understanding of current environmental law. This article focuses on distributive and procedural dimensions of EJ and on considerations of intragenerational fairness within the EU. General ...
Pressing Forward—Developments in the Transition Towards Sustainable Materials Management in EU Environmental Law Universiteit Hasselt
Fill in the Gaps: EU sanctioning requirements to improve member state enforcement of EU environmental law Universiteit Gent
The Fate of EU Environmental and Investment Law after the Achmea Decision Universiteit Hasselt
In the landmark Slowakische Republik v. Achmea BV judgment, the ecj arguably took a resolute stance against the compatibility of International Investment Agreements between EU Member States and the inherent functioning of EU’s legal order. However, the issue as to whether the foreign investment protection regime is at odds with the sound application of EU law is far from being settled. Furthermore, the international investment protection regime ...
The legal transition towards a Circular Economy – EU environmental law examined. KU Leuven
Pressures on natural resources, the environment and human health have increased in the past decades and will continue to rise if no changes will come about in many of our current patterns of resource extraction, manufacturing, product use and waste management. To this end, the European Union aims at transforming the Union's economy from a linear system into a so-called Circular Economy, which is an economy based on a life-cycle approach. ...
The application of international environmental law principles in Latin America: a world apart from the EU? KU Leuven
© 2017, ERA. This paper presents a comparative discussion of the application of principles of international environmental law in the Latin American region and the European Union. The question we seek to answer is how (international) environmental principles are employed by Supreme Courts in Latin America, with a brief comparison with the approach by the European Court of Justice. This research presents an illustrative sample of Court of Justice ...
Harmonisation in EU Environmental and Energy Law Universiteit Hasselt
The book deals with topical issues in the ongoing process of harmonisation in the fields of environmental and energy law. Applying critical perspectives, the contributors address a broad array of issues ranging from more general concepts and processes of harmonisation to more specific applications with regard to the domains of environmental and energy law.
Towards More Sustainable EU Environmental Law Universiteit Hasselt
Pressing Forward—Developments in the Transition Towards Sustainable Materials Management in EU Environmental Law KU Leuven
The chapter explores the policy and legal developments in the transition towards Sustainable Materials Management in EU environmental law. It discusses the Circular Economy Package and, in view of the package, highlights the opportunities in the application of the life-cycle perspective.