Law, Environment and Development Centre
Description
The Law, Environment and Development Centre undertakes research in various areas of environmental law of contemporary relevance. The centre's research focuses in particular on topics of relevance to the South and to North-South relations:
- Biodiversity: access and benefit sharing; equity; farmers' rights; intellectual property rights; traditional knowledge.
- Biosafety: biotechnology, in particular agro-biotechnology in the South; precautionary principle; liability regimes.
- Climate change: common but differentiated responsibility; Clean Development Mechanism, emissions trading.
- Forests: governance, biodiversity, energy, forest users rights and trade.
- Natural resources: land; mining, plant genetic resources for food and agriculture; multinational companies.
- Sanitation: right to sanitation, wastewater, manual scavenging and sewage workers; gender.
- Water: right to water, groundwater, governance and institutions; environment; regulation and privitisation.
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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Contact details
School Of Oriental & African Studies
10 Thornhaugh Street
London
WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom
10 Thornhaugh Street
London
WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom
Public email: ledc@soas.ac.uk
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School of Oriental and African Studies
10 Thornhaugh St
London
WC1H 0XG
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2023-11-18 10:16:40