Environmental Law 1
This term refers to laws that address environmental issues on a global scale.
What is International Environmental Law?
The term for the introduction of environmental rights and obligations into a country's constitution.
What is Environmental Constitutionalism?
This conventional economic measurement that doesn't typically consider environmental degradation.
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
The economic approach advocating for deliberating slowing net economic growth
What is Degrowth?
Natural resources shared by people without exclusive ownership.
What are the Commons?
The endangered species protected by the US Endangered Species Act in 1970, targeted by the Trump administration.
What is the Grey Wolf?
The term for the struggle for fair treatment and involvement of all people affected by environmental problems.
What is Environmental Justice?
This concept describes overexploitation of shared natural resources due to individual self interest.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
A form of corporate deception where companies market themselves as environmentally friendly without substantial changes.
What is Greenwashing?
A governance system that considers a company's environmental, social, and governance impact.
What is ESG?
The principle that requires companies, rather than taxpayers or consumers to cover the costs of stopping, managing, and cleaning up pollution.
What is the Polluter Pays Principle?
A detailed study examining the potential environmental impact of a major development project.
What is an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)?
The concept of economies growing without increasing environmental pressure.
What is Eco-Economic Decoupling?
Economic effects that impact third parties not directly involved in a transaction.
What are Externalities?
This sampling method used to evaluate species abundance in environmental studies often involves a random number generator.
What is Quadrat Sampling?
This organization created the World Wildlife Fund and assesses species conservation status.
What is the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)?
This international agreement prevents trade in endangered species, like the rare slow loris.
What is CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species)?
This principle states that if we are unsure whether something could be harmful, but think it might be, then we should refrain from doing it.
What is the Precautionary Principle?
This index is used to calculate ecological diversity of mobile species in environmental assessments.
What is Simpson's Reciprocal Index?
Word for a type of environmental problem, or agreement, that crosses national borders
Transboundary
This UN body settles legal disputes between countries, and found Slobadan Milosovic guilty of war crimes at one time.
What is the International Court of Justice (ICJ)?
This country first granted legal personhood to all its rivers in 2019.
What is Bangladesh?
This organization found Russia not guilty after Japan pressed charges, following an incident where Japanese fishers were arrested in Russian waters
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
The economic value of natural resources can be divided into these two types of value.
What are Use and Non-Use Values?
The year South Africa incorporated environmental rights in its constitution.
What is 1996?