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Product Description: The chapters in this volume have their origins in papers presented at a Workshop held at Lund University in Sweden. The Workshop gathered together experts from Europe, the United States and Australia, including leading academics as well as representatives from the ICRC, the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Red Cross Societies and the Swedish and Norwegian governments, to examine the relevance and adequacy of the existing regime for environmental protection during armed conflict as well as the ability of other international legal mechanisms to contribute to the amelioration of damage to the environment arising as a result of or in relation to armed conflict...read more

Product Description: This timely study addresses the pressing issue of food security through a range of interdisciplinary contributions, providing both scholarly and policymaking perspectives. It sets the discussion on food security within the little-studied context of its international legal and regulatory framework...read more

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Product Description: It is more than twenty-five years since the World Bank Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes entered into force. These reports present in a single, comprehensive series all those decisions of ICSID tribunals that are in the public domain, as well as the decisions of national courts relating to such proceedings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)