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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.

Resistance and Consistent: Access to Medicines and Patent Law Reforms in India and China (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hu, Y. Q. (2013, December). Resistance and Consistent: Access to Medicines and Patent Law Reforms in India and China. Paper presented at Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2013 ‘Law, Individual, Community’, University of Edinburgh

The paper starts with reviewing the debates on patent in access to medicines in the context of globalization of TRIPS regime. It then looks at the issue of resistance related to patent theories, mechanism and the linkage with social movement during l... Read More about Resistance and Consistent: Access to Medicines and Patent Law Reforms in India and China.

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?.

Groundwater Legal Regime in India: Towards Ensuring Equity and Human Rights (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Koonan, S. Groundwater Legal Regime in India: Towards Ensuring Equity and Human Rights. London

This paper examines the existing and evolving groundwater law in India in the context of its capacity to ensure equity, sustainability and realisation of human rights. The critical evaluation of the existing legal framework is followed by an analysis... Read More about Groundwater Legal Regime in India: Towards Ensuring Equity and Human Rights.

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.

Land Acquisition for Tourism: A review of state practices, laws and policies (2012)
Report
Ohdedar, B. Land Acquisition for Tourism: A review of state practices, laws and policies

This paper gives a broad overview of the laws and policies of land acquisition in India, concentrating on the practices of 5 states of India (Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Maharashtra, and Karnataka), and looking more particularly at the pr... Read More about Land Acquisition for Tourism: A review of state practices, laws and policies.

Water Use and Rights – India (2012)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2012). Water Use and Rights – India. In S. Geall, J. Liu, & S. Pellissery (Eds.), The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 7: China, India, and East and Southeast Asia: Assessing Sustainability (393-395). Berkshire Publishing

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.