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Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps (2016)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (in press). Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps. Transnational Environmental Law, 5(2), 305-328. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204710251600025X

Differential treatment in international environmental law is the broader manifestation of the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDRs). It reflects equity concerns that have underlain most environmental debates on a North-South... Read More about Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps.

Loss and Damage from the Impacts of Climate Change: A Framework for Implementation (2016)
Journal Article
Ohdedar, B. (in press). Loss and Damage from the Impacts of Climate Change: A Framework for Implementation. Nordic journal of international law (KÝbenhavn. 1986. Print), 85(1), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-08501001

Loss and damage from the impacts of climate change affect many countries and communities across the world. In 2013, the Warsaw Mechanism on Loss and Damage, created through the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (unfccc), established an insti... Read More about Loss and Damage from the Impacts of Climate Change: A Framework for Implementation.

Environmental communications: The reader's perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Haigh, M. (2015). Environmental communications: The reader's perspective. Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, 2015(207), 233-250. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0046

Connecting reception theory and social semiotics, this article offers a framework for the analysis of hortatory texts. An illustrative case uses the pronouncements of environmental regulators, with the reader group represented by a sample of executiv... Read More about Environmental communications: The reader's perspective.

Inter-Sectoral Water Allocation and Conflicts – Perspectives from Rajasthan (2015)
Journal Article
Cullet, P., Bhullar, L., & Koonan, S. (2015). Inter-Sectoral Water Allocation and Conflicts – Perspectives from Rajasthan. Economic and political weekly, 50(34), 61-69

Inter-sectoral allocation of water has become an increasingly important and contentious issue in India. Yet, the law and policy frameworks for allocation or re-allocation of water to different uses, or within a category of use, remain underdeveloped.... Read More about Inter-Sectoral Water Allocation and Conflicts – Perspectives from Rajasthan.

FLEGT VPAs: Laying a pathway to sustainability via legality lessons from Ghana and Indonesia (2014)
Journal Article
Lesniewska, F., & McDermott, C. L. (2014). FLEGT VPAs: Laying a pathway to sustainability via legality lessons from Ghana and Indonesia. Forest Policy and Economics, 48(November), 16-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2014.01.005

The long-term objective of the 2003 EU FLEGT Action Plan was to ensure a legal trade of timber products within and between countries and, by doing so, clear a pathway towards global sustainability and good governance. Voluntary Partnership Agreements... Read More about FLEGT VPAs: Laying a pathway to sustainability via legality lessons from Ghana and Indonesia.

Groundwater Law in India – Towards a Framework Ensuring Equitable Access and Aquifer Protection (2014)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2014). Groundwater Law in India – Towards a Framework Ensuring Equitable Access and Aquifer Protection. Journal of Environmental Law, 26(1), 55-81. https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqt031

Groundwater law in India gives individual landowners overwhelming control over groundwater. This is inappropriate in a context where groundwater is now the main source of water for the realisation of the human right to water. This also fails to provi... Read More about Groundwater Law in India – Towards a Framework Ensuring Equitable Access and Aquifer Protection.

Do environmental policy instruments influence fiduciaries’ decisions? (2013)
Journal Article
Haigh, M., & Shapiro, M. (2013). Do environmental policy instruments influence fiduciaries’ decisions?. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 45(4), 853-871. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45181

This article examines the import of companies’ environmental performance levels in light of existing and nascent energy-usage and environmental management policies. The study is based on an experiment using a sample of financial institutions located... Read More about Do environmental policy instruments influence fiduciaries’ decisions?.

UNFCCC REDD+ COP Decisions: The Cumulative Effect on Forest Related Law Processes (2013)
Journal Article
Lesniewska, F. (2013). UNFCCC REDD+ COP Decisions: The Cumulative Effect on Forest Related Law Processes. International Community Law Review, 15(1), 103-121. https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341244

International law development theories fail to determine the legal nature and effect of decisions made by treaty bodies. An example that demonstrates this is the ongoing evolution of a mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation... Read More about UNFCCC REDD+ COP Decisions: The Cumulative Effect on Forest Related Law Processes.

Carbon reporting: does it matter? (2013)
Journal Article
Haigh, M., & Shapiro, M. (2013). Carbon reporting: does it matter?. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 25(1), 105-125. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513571211191761

This paper identifies the significance of carbon emissions reporting for investment bankers at selected financial institutions in the USA, Europe and Australia. Carbon emissions reporting methods as used by firms are identified using desk research. A... Read More about Carbon reporting: does it matter?.

Governing the Environment without CoPs – The Case of Water (2013)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2013). Governing the Environment without CoPs – The Case of Water. International Community Law Review, 15(1), 123-135. https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341245

CoPs have played a key role in governing the environment. Yet, CoPs have only provided the institutional framework for governing issues falling under existing treaty regimes. They have not been able to go beyond the regimes they govern. In the case o... Read More about Governing the Environment without CoPs – The Case of Water.

Right to Water in India – Plugging Conceptual and Practical Gaps (2013)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2013). Right to Water in India – Plugging Conceptual and Practical Gaps. The International Journal of Human Rights, 17(1), 56-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.700454

This article examines the content of the human right to water. It starts from the premise that the right is firmly anchored in international and national law. It thus moves beyond debates concerning either the existence or the legal status of the rig... Read More about Right to Water in India – Plugging Conceptual and Practical Gaps.

The Groundwater Model Bill - Rethinking Regulation for the Primary Source of Water (2012)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2012). The Groundwater Model Bill - Rethinking Regulation for the Primary Source of Water. Economic and political weekly, 47(45), 40-47

Groundwater is now the main source of water for all major water uses in India and needs to be given greater policy attention. The fact that it is a politically sensitive topic because any reform will affect some powerful constituencies cannot be an e... Read More about The Groundwater Model Bill - Rethinking Regulation for the Primary Source of Water.

Is Water Policy the New Water Law? – Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms (2012)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2012). Is Water Policy the New Water Law? – Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms. IDS Bulletin, 43(2), 69-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2012.00309.x

Water law and policy are in principle clearly distinct at the national and international levels. The
former is binding while the latter is not. Yet, over the past two decades, the respective space of water law
and water policy has evolved to the po... Read More about Is Water Policy the New Water Law? – Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms.

Water Law in a Globalised World: The Need for a New Conceptual Framework (2011)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2011). Water Law in a Globalised World: The Need for a New Conceptual Framework. Journal of Environmental Law, 23(2), 233-254. https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqr003

Water law is at a crossroads. Its basic structure and principles are being challenged by the increasingly global dimension of water issues. Yet, neither the international framework nor national water laws acknowledge the intrinsic links between the g... Read More about Water Law in a Globalised World: The Need for a New Conceptual Framework.

Cultural legitimacy and regulatory transitions for climate change: A discursive framework (2011)
Journal Article
Kaime, T. (2011). Cultural legitimacy and regulatory transitions for climate change: A discursive framework. Carbon & climate law review, 5(3), 321-329. https://doi.org/10.21552/CCLR/2011/3/186

Because of its tremendous temporal and spatial scope, climate change poses profound regulatory issues. Significant transboundary effects and spatially differentiated effects make it highly desirable that international regulatory mechanisms are utilis... Read More about Cultural legitimacy and regulatory transitions for climate change: A discursive framework.