OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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Pharmaceutical pollution: A weakly regulated global environmental risk	34
Business and human rights implications of climate change litigation: Milieudefensie et al. v Royal Dutch Shell	27
Is carbon dioxide removal ‘mitigation of climate change’?	25
Planetary boundaries at the intersection of Earth system law, science and governance: A state‐of‐the‐art review	18
Achieving agricultural greenhouse gas emission reductions in the EU post‐2030: What options do we have?	13
The right to a healthy environment: Reconceptualizing human rights in the face of climate change	12
Palm oil, the RED II and WTO law: EU sustainable biofuel policy tangled up in green?	11
The State of the Netherlands v Urgenda Foundation: Distilling best practice and lessons learnt for future rights‐based climate litigation	11
REDD+ and forest protection on indigenous lands in the Amazon	10
Public participation at the International Seabed Authority: An international human rights law analysis	8
Zero deforestation in the Amazon: The Soy Moratorium and global forest governance	8
A water property right inventory of 60 countries	7
A human rights approach to energy: Realizing the rights of billions within ecological limits	7
Towards a legal definition of ecological restoration: Reviewing international, European and Member States' case law	6
Megafauna restoration as a legal obligation: International biodiversity law and the rehabilitation of large mammals in Europe	6
Water property rights in investor‐state contracts on extractive activities, affects water governance: An empirical assessment of 80 contracts in Africa and Asia	6
To ban or not to ban carbon‐intensive materials: A legal and administrative assessment of product carbon requirements	6
The power of the Paris Agreement in international climate litigation	6
Due diligence in global value chains: Conceptualizing ‘adverse environmental impact’	5
Protecting forests or saving trees? The EU's regulatory approach to global deforestation	5
Public participation, indigenous peoples’ land rights and major infrastructure projects in the Amazon: The case for a human rights assessment framework	5
Coming to terms with public participation in decision making: Balancing clarity and impact in the Aarhus Convention	5
Are climate activists protected by the Aarhus Convention? A note on Article 3(8) Aarhus Convention and the new Rapid Response Mechanism for environmental defenders	4
Putting the constructive ambiguity of climate change loss and damage into practice: The early work of the UNFCCC WIM ExCom	4
International legal requirements for environmental and socio‐cultural assessments for large‐scale industrial fisheries	4

COVID‐19 and Amazonia: Rights‐based approaches for the pandemic response	4
Adaptation regulatory regimes to address climate change challenges in transboundary water basins: Can multilateral regionalism help?	4
Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals	4
A democratic nuclear energy transition? Public participation in nuclear activities	4
Bringing animal welfare under the umbrella of sustainable development: A legal analysis	4
Climate neutrality in the EU and China: An analysis of the stringency of targets and the adaptiveness of the relevant legal frameworks	3
The COP27 decision and future directions for loss and damage finance: Addressing vulnerability and non‐economic loss and damage	3
The public–private governance regime on sustainable ship recycling: An in‐depth analysis	3
International human rights bodies and climate litigation: Don't look up?	3
The rise of international climate litigation	3
Beyond Urgenda: The role of the ECHR and judgments of the ECtHR in Dutch environmental and climate litigation	3
Confronting inequality beyond sustainable development: The case for eco‐human rights and differentiation	3
The role of an advisory opinion of ITLOS in addressing climate change: Some preliminary considerations on jurisdiction and admissibility	3
Payments for ecosystem services in transboundary water allocation cases: An approach for China and its neighbours	3
Intercontinental shipping in the European Union emissions trading system: A ‘fifty–fifty’ alignment with the law of the sea and international climate law?	3
Beyond the North–South divide: Litigation's role in resolving climate change loss and damage claims	3
Climate litigation to protect the Brazilian Amazon: Establishing a constitutional right to a stable climate	3
Are we ready for the ship transport of CO₂ for CCS? Crude solutions from international and European law	3
The mirage of universalism in international nuclear liability law: A critical assessment 10 years after Fukushima	3
Governance and metagovernance systems for the Amazon	2
Integrating communities' customary laws into marine small‐scale fisheries governance in Ghana: Reflections on the FAO Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small‐Scale Fisheries	2
Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway	2
The unvirtuous cycle of loss and damage: Addressing systemic impacts of climate change in small islands from a vulnerability perspective	2
Criminal justice cooperation to combat transnational wildlife crime: An examination of cooperation between China and Africa	2
United Nations recognition of the universal right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: An eyewitness account	2
Could a trade agreement strengthen the enforcement of domestic environmental laws? Envisioning the impacts of the US–Peru environmental submissions mechanism	2
The role of proportionality in the law of transboundary waters	2
Advisory opinions on climate change: Some preliminary questions	2
Protecting the marine environment from the impacts of climate change: A regime interaction study	2
Individual rights and the environmental public interest: A comparison of German and Chinese approaches to environmental litigation	2
Atmospheric CO₂ as a resource for renewable energy production: A European energy law appraisal of direct air capture fuels	2
A principled approach for BBNJ: An idea whose time has come	2
Inter‐State climate technology transfer under the UNFCCC: A benefit‐sharing approach	2
Justifying a presumed standing for environmental NGOs: A legal assessment of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention	2
Applying the precautionary principle to Fukushima nuclear wastewater disposal at sea	1
Taking the current when it serves: Prospects and challenges for an ITLOS advisory opinion on oceans and climate change	1
The right to climate protection and the essentially comparable protection of fundamental rights: Applying Solange in European climate change litigation?	1
Climate change before the European and Inter‐American Courts of Human Rights: Comparing possible avenues before human rights bodies	1
Case C‐24/19 (A and others): How to ensure effet utile of the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive?	1
Indigenous youth and international conservation law: Five case studies	1
Area‐based management tools under the BBNJ Agreement: Ambition or illusion?	1
The Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala case and the customary rules on the definition of international watercourse	1
The WTO dispute settlement system as a forum for climate litigation?	1
The long and winding road towards the creation of climate clubs: Transatlantic negotiations, potential regulatory models and challenges ahead	1
The suitability of investor‐State dispute settlement and host State counterclaims for implementing climate change international responsibility	1
The World Health Organization as actor in international environmental law? An analysis by example of the global waste challenge	1
Editorial: Contemporary challenges for international water law: Setting a new course	1
Rethinking the premises underlying the right to development in African human rights jurisprudence	1
Financing for loss and damage under the UNFCCC: Have we come full circle?	1
The implications of seabed mining in the Area for the human right to health	1

Unjust enrichment in investor–State arbitration: A principled limit on compensation for future income from fossil fuels	1
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The right to a healthy environment and its justiciability before the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: A critical appraisal of the Lhaka Honhat v Argentina judgement	1
Evolving normativity in contemporary international water law: A communicative approach to the growing role of non‐state actors	1
Harm to the global commons on trial: The role of the prevention principle in international climate adjudication	1
Does the tiger have teeth? A critical examination of the toolbox approach of environmental law enforcement in China	1
A quest for agency in the Anthropocene: Law and environmental movements in Southeast Asia	1
Arrested ambition? Foreign investor protections, stabilization clauses and fossil‐fuelled power generation in developing countries	1
Scrutinizing net zero: The legal problems of counting greenhouse gas emissions, removals and offsets together	1
The ocean, sustainable development and human rights	1
Not easy to ‘green’ old ways: National courts and rights‐based smog cases in Poland	1
The legal components of benefit‐sharing in transboundary watercourses: An analysis of China's approach	1
The role of energy communities for thermal networks: An EU legal perspective	1
Human rights and climate wrongs: Mapping the landscape of rights‐based climate litigation	1
The legal status of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSAs): Challenges and improvements for PSSA resolutions	1
Environmental considerations in the European Union's pharmaceuticals legislation: Key instruments and their challenges in addressing global manufacturing supply chains	1
The potential of international ‘State‐as‐polluter’ litigation	1
Carbon pricing for international shipping, equity, and WTO law	0
BLUE LEGALITIES: THE LIFE AND LAWS OF THE SEA, Edited by IrusBraverman and Elizabeth R.Johnson Published by Duke University Press, 2021;30:422–423 pp, $28.95, paperback.	0
What can climate change litigation learn from socio‐economic rights litigation?	0
The continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles: Rights and responsibilities by JoannaMossop Published by Oxford University Press, 2016, 278 pp., £85.00, hardback.	0
Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction: Exploring EU Climate Protection under International Law, By Natalie LDobson, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 267 pp.	0
When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide: The Politics of Conflict Management of Regional Courts By Marie‐CatherinePetersmann, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 316.	0
Public Interest Litigation in International Law By JustineBendel and YusraSuedi (Eds.), Routledge. 2023. 354 pp.	0
Domestic entities and access and benefit‐sharing: A legal critique of Divya Pharmacy v Union of India	0
Politics and International Law: Making, Breaking, and Upholding Global Rules By LeslieJohns, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 560.	0
Reassessing environmental protection in international investment agreements: The case of Vietnam	0
The role of ASEAN and its members in promoting the norm of responsible governance of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction	0
Including Consumption in Emissions Trading: Economic and Legal Considerations By Manuel WHaussner, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2021, x + 200 pp.	0
Daniel Billy et al v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition): Climate change inaction as a human rights violation	0
Ceci n'est pas un État: The Order of Malta and the Holy See as precedents for deterritorialized statehood?	0
Clearing the fog: Forest Stewardship Council labelling and the World Trade Organization	0
Bridging multinational corporations' investment‐climate gap: Prospects for the direct claims approach	0
The Czech Republic v Poland (Mine de Turów): Politics and implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive	0
Responsibility for Environmental Damage By JasonRudall, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024. pp. 352. $165 (hbk). ISBN: 9781803920702	0
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Embedding technology at the grassroots: Strategies for localising technology transfer under the UNFCCC technology mechanism	0
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Support for young farmers in the European Union: How much discretion for Member States?	0
More‐than‐human by JamieLorimer and TimothyHodgetts, Routledge, 2024, xv + 245 pp	0
Emerging technologies and environmental, energy and climate law	0
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Non‐refoulement and climate change‐induced displacement: Regional and international cross‐fertilization?	0
Nature as a sentient being: Can rivers be legal persons?	0
Green public procurement of pharmaceuticals as a regulatory response to antimicrobial resistance and its compatibility with the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement	0
Behavioural instruments in environmental law and policy: Potential and challenges	0
Integrating climate change into legislative drafting: An analysis of regulatory impact assessment obligations and practices in the EU and Finland	0
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Regulating AI in the ‘twin transitions’: Significance and shortcomings of the AI Act in the digitalised electricity sector	0
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Turning to international litigation to protect the Amazon?	0
Climate change at the crossroads of human rights: The right to a healthy environment, the right to water and the right to development	0
Displacing the human? Foucauldian analyses of the Convention on Biological Diversity	0
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Navigating electricity network congestion: An examination of a principle‐based regulatory theory and strategy	0
Mainstreaming displacement in development policies: An analysis of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu approaches	0
Casting the net wider? The transformative potential of integrating human rights into the implementation of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies	0
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A legal analysis of the interinstitutional duty to cooperate in international water law	0
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Private standards for the public interest? Evidence from environmental standardization in China	0
Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South: Challenges for Implementation, By Kirk W.Junker and Paolo DavideFarah,London and New York: Routledge, 2021, 348 pp.	0
A legal study of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's new Environmental and Social Framework	0
Bringing the right to water into the spotlight: A civil right before the European Court of Human Rights?	0
Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Chile v Bolivia): Is the International Court of Justice falling short?	0
Power in Conservation: Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology, by CarolCarpenterPublished by Routledge, 2020, 219 pp., £34.99, paperback.	0
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Tempering great expectations: The legitimacy constraints and the conflict function of international courts in international climate litigation	0
National discretion or broadening acceptable interpretation? A comparative overview of the transposition and implementation of the Water Framework Directive	0
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Climate change and the voiceless: Protecting future generations, wildlife and natural resources by Randall S.Abate Published by Cambridge University Press, 2019, 239 pp., €66.48, hardback.	0
Climate change adaptation in water law: International, EU and Finnish perspectives	0
Sustainable development, international law, and a turn to African legal cosmologies By Godwin Eli KwadzoDzah, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 408 pp	0
The role of environmental impact assessments in the establishment and management of marine protected areas under the UNCLOS and the BBNJ Agreement	0
Prospects for invoking the law of self‐determination in international climate litigation	0
Can't see the carbon for the CO₂? Regulating CCU value chains under and beyond climate law	0
Sustainability and the sunlight of disclosure: ESG disclosure in three Asian financial centres	0

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In search of a sustainable future: A comparative assessment of climate change regimes in Nigeria and Kenya	0
The precautionary approach and challenges posed by mega‐constellations	0
Predicting future oceans: Sustainability of ocean and human systems amidst global environmental change edited by Andrés M.Cisneros‐Montemayor, William W.L.Cheung and YoshitakaOta Published by Elsevier	0
Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives By IvanoAlogna, ChristineBakker, Jean‐PierreGauci (Eds.), Brill. 2021. pp. 542.	0
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, By KoheiSaito, Published by Cambridge University Press, 2023, 300 pp.	0
EU public values governing the twin transition	0
The integration of the ecosystem approach in the BBNJ agreement—An initial assessment of limits and opportunities	0
MANAGING FACTS AND FEELINGS IN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE edited by LorenzoSquintani, JanDarpö, LucLavrysen and Peter‐TobiasStollEdward Elgar, 2019, 256 pp., £85.00, hardback.	0
Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes: Regulatory Coherence, Due Regard, and Due Diligence By Caroline E.Foster, Oxford University Press. 2021. xxx + 375 pp.	0
Ecolaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature, By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, x + 128 pp.	0
INDIA IN A WARMING WORLD: INTEGRATING CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT EDITED BY Navroz K.Dubash Published by Oxford University Press, 2019, 504 pp., £43.99 (open access), hardback.	0
Smallholder farms in the sustainable food transition: A critical examination of the new Common Agricultural Policy	0
Civil liability for climate change? The proposed tort in Smith v Fonterra with reference to France and the Netherlands	0
Towards the adoption of climate change acts in the Visegrad Group countries	0
A framework for the assessment of alternative uses in international water law	0
Addressing governance challenges of digitalisation and sustainability: The case of central bank digital currency	0
The Energy Charter Treaty: Letting the sun set on sunset clauses	0
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Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific, Edited by JoleneLin and Douglas A.Kysar Published by Cambridge University Press, 2020, 427 pp, £110.00, hardback.	0
Data governance for the ecological transition: An infrastructure perspective	0
Incorporating indigenous rights in the international regime on biodiversity protection: Access, benefit‐sharing and conservation in indigenous lands by FedericaCittadino Published by Brill Nijhoff, 20	0
Successful conservation and management of kelp forests requires more ambitious use of international law	0
Calibrating states' emissions reduction due diligence obligations with reference to the right to life	0
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The awkward relations between EU innovation policies and environmental law	0
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, By DipeshChakrabarty, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2021, 296 pp	0
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Biodiversity Litigation By GuillaumeFuthazar, SandrineMaljean‐Dubois and JonaRazzaque (Eds.) Oxford University Press. 2022. 448 pp.	0
The development of the law of the sea convention: the role of international courts and tribunals, Edited by ØysteinJensenPublished by Edward Elgar, 2020, xvii + 280 pp., £90.00, hardback.	0
Strengthening the complaint mechanisms of multilateral climate funds and carbon markets: A critical step towards a human rights‐based green transition	0
The Regulation of Product Standards in World Trade Law, By MingDuOxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 256 pp.	0
Rights of nature in the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: Understanding the ecocentric approach to the right to a healthy environment	0
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A place for people's knowledge in climate evidence: Exploring civic evidence in climate litigation	0
Making space for indigenous law in state‐led decisions about hydropower dams: Lessons from environmental assessments in Canada and Brazil	0
Conservation agreements and environmental governance: The role of nongovernmental actors	0
A paper tiger in the fog of governance: Norway's riddle in biodiversity matters	0
Environmental Principles: From Political Slogans to Legal Rules, By NicolasDe Sadeleer, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edn, 2020, 592 pp	0
David versus Goliath? Indigenous people, carbon majors and climate litigation in South Africa	0
The Ecology of War and Peace: Marginalising Slow and Structural Violence in International Law By ElianaCusato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp. x + 312	0
Law in a hyperconnected world: Joining the dots for sustainable futures	0
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Protecting animals within and across borders: Extraterritorial jurisdiction and the challenges of globalization, by Charlotte E.BlattnerOxford University Press, 2021;30:420–422 pp, £61.00, hardback.	0
A comparative study of the judicial construction of scientific credibility in climate litigation	0
A quasi‐normative conflict: Resolving the tension between investment treaties and climate action	0
Liability of shipowners and classification societies for environmental damage and unsafe working conditions at recycling yards	0
Editorial: The legal protection of the Amazon rainforest	0
Sustainability in regulating biotechnology: A new form of knowledge in regulatory co‐production?	0
Shaping green regionalism: New trade law approaches to environmental sustainability	0
The ‘bitcoin judgements’ in China: Promoting climate awareness by judicial reasoning?	0
Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and Their Bodies By IyanOffor, Routledge. 2023. 320 pp.	0
Reflexive EU environmental law: Exploring divergence in the French and German transposition of the Single‐use Plastics Directive	0
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International marine mammal law by NikolasSellheim, Published by Springer, 2021;30:417–420 pp, €70.84, hardback.	0
Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance By MatthewCanfield, Stanford University Press. 2022. 280 pp.	0
Addressing the international illegal wildlife trade through a human rights approach	0
The centrality of law for EU sustainable finance markets: Outlining a research agenda	0
International law and transboundary aquifers by FrancescoSindico Published by Edward Elgar, 2021;30:416–417 pp., £80.00 hardback.	0
Loss and damage from the perspective of vulnerable countries	0
The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice By CristyClark and JohnPage, Edinburgh University Press. 2022. 248 pp.	0
Towards minilateral climate governance? Analysing climate club design options through the lens of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities	0
International marine environmental law and policy Edited by DaudHassanSaifulKarim Published by Routledge, 2019, 276 pp., £120.00, hardback.	0
Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law. By FelicityDeane, EvanHamman and AnnaHuggins, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2022, 256 pp.	0
Creating China’s climate change policy: Internal competition and external diplomacy by OliviaGippner Published by Edward Elgar, 2020, 224pp., £80.00, hardback.	0
Is it still permissible under EU law to issue new permits for oil and gas extraction?	0
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