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Environmental Liability in International Law

- Towards a Conherent Conception -

This book focuses on liability provisions adopted and applied by states in environmental treaties and protocols as well as the international jurisprudence and non-contractual law creation processes as the decision-making of the Iraq Claims Commission. The international practice is supplemented by the further development of liability instruments in national legislation in Germany and the United Sta...read more

Economy | Consumption, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

State Promotion for Regional Products

A Legal Analysis

Having said all of this, state advertising for regional products is allowed by world trade law in a comparable extent as from the EC law. Merely in a three-way regard do the system of laws take different paths: First, the EC law offers a broader selection of justification possibilities than the world trade law system, so that the promotion of weekly- and farmers- markets or of trade fairs and exhi...read more

Economy | Consumption, Waste | Resources

Cost Analysis for a monitoring of NiCd-batteries in municipal solid waste

Development of a monitoring strategy and assessment of related costs

It was the aim of the study to assess the sampling volume and the costs that would be required to monitor NiCd-batteries in municipal solid waste. The following tasks have been carried out: 1. Identification of relevant waste streams, i.e. waste streams containing relevant amounts of NiCd batteries; 2. Selection of appropriate sampling strategies for the relevant waste streams; 3. Determination of...read more

Climate | Energy

Integration of Biodiversity Concerns in Climate Change Mitigation Activities

A Toolkit

The current toolkit is based on the results of the research & development project “Suitable Instruments for Integrating Biodiversity Considerations in Climate Change Mitigation Activities, Particularly in the Land Use and Energy Sector” (Choudhury et al. 2004). The following chapters define the objective and scope of the toolkit, explain the context and international politicaland legal framewo...read more

Chemicals

Behaviour of selected human and veterinary pharmaceuticals in aquatic compartments and soil

Pharmaceutical residues are not totally eliminated during municipal sewage treatment and are thus discharged into the aquatic environment via STP effluents. Despite the extensive use of pharmaceuticals in modern medicine, relatively little is known about the occurrence and the fate of pharmaceuticals in sediments and environmental waters.   read more

Air, Transport

Implementation of Agenda 21 in the German Seaports - Model Calculations for the Prediction of Air Pollutant Levels considering Lübeck-Travemünde as an Example

Appendix

In this study, the degree of air pollution resulting from shipping traffic in the surroundings of Skandinavienkai in Lübeck-Travemünde has been considered. In order to estimate the total level of emissions, the main road network within the area under investigation has been included in the study. Due to low contributions, other polluter groups have been neglected in the total emission, as was shown...read more

Climate | Energy, Waste | Resources, Soil | Land

Suitable Instruments for Integrating Biodiversity Considerations in Climate Change Mitigation Activities, particularly in the Land Use and Energy Sector

There is indicative evidence that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are leading to changes in the global climate. The consequences for human beings and the environment as predicted by experts will vary from region to region. Precipitation levels are expected to increase in some regions, and decrease in others. Temperatures are changing, and the incidence of droughts and floods is likely to in...read more

Air

The BERN Model: Bioindication for Ecosystem Regeneration towards Natural conditions

The eutrophying effects resulting from increased deposition rates of reactive nitrogen to ecosystems are a major problem in the context of long range transported air pollution. Therfore, one focus of the related effects oriented research is to improve knowledge on time- and area-depending effects for modelling purposes. The presented BERN-model allows for the first time to model changes of major p...read more