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Mangrove Forest: One of the World’s Threatened Major Tropical Environments
2001
Global
Corporate Accountability
Economics Ecosystem Services Valuation methods
Marine and Coastal Aquaculture Coastal zone management Mangroves
Sustainable Development
Tourism Coastal developments
Wetlands
The Loss of Species: Mangrove Extinction Risk and Geographic Areas of Global Concern
2010
Global
Biodiversity
Corporate Accountability
Economics Ecosystem Services Valuation methods
Financial Liability Natural resources damages
Marine and Coastal Coastal zone management Mangroves Marine resources
Public Participation
Sustainable Development
Managing mangroves with benthic biodiversity in mind: Moving beyond roving banditry
2008
Global
Biodiversity
Corporate Accountability
Economics Ecosystem Services Valuation methods
Fisheries
Marine and Coastal Aquaculture Coastal zone management Mangroves
Pollution, Water
Sustainable Development
Anthropogenic Disturbance of Caribbean Mangrove Ecosystems: Past Impacts, Present Trends, and Future Predictions
Caribbean Jamaica
Climate Change
Corporate Accountability
Economics Ecosystem Services
Financial Liability Natural resources damages
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Marine and Coastal Mangroves
Pollution, Industrial Petroleum refineries
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Waste Industrial waste Municipal waste
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Natural barriers to natural disasters: Replanting mangroves after the tsunami
2006
Southeast Asia Thailand
Corporate Accountability
Economics Ecosystem Services
Environmental justice
Marine and Coastal Aquaculture Coastal zone management Mangroves
Pollution, Water
Public Participation
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Sustainable Development
Interrelations between mangrove ecosystem, local economy and social sustainability in Caeté Estuary, North Brazil
2003
South America Brazil
Corporate Accountability
Economics Ecosystem Services Valuation methods
Fisheries
Marine and Coastal Coastal zone management Mangroves Marine resources
Public Participation
Sustainable Development
Conserving Mangrove Ecosystems in the Philippines Transcending Disciplinary and Institutional Borders
2010
Southeast Asia Philippines
Access to Information
Corporate Accountability
Economics Ecosystem Services
Education
Environmental justice
Financial Liability
Marine and Coastal Aquaculture Mangroves
Pollution, Water
Public Participation
Sustainable Development
REsp 647.493/SC [MPF v. Brazil and mining companies]
2007
South America Brazil
Access to Justice
Corporate Accountability
Mining Coal mining Reclamation and closure
Procedural Issues Strict liability
Complex litigation seeking remediation of environmental damages from large-scale coal mining in which Brazil's Superior Court of Justice held the mining companies strictly liable and the federal government jointly liable with a duty to make the companies pay for remediation while concluding that the owners and managers of the companies have supplemental liability if the companies can't fulfill duty to remedy environmental damages and concluding that collective actions for environmental remediation are not subject to statutes of limitations.
Lungowe v. Vendanta Resources PLC
2016
South Asia India
Access to Justice
Corporate Accountability
Mining
Zambian community members are permitted to pursue claims in English court against a UK mining company and its Zambian subsidiary for environmental harm arising out of copper mining operations in Zambia.
Chevron Corp. v. Yaiguaje
2015
North America Canada
Access to Justice
Corporate Accountability
Financial Liability
Oil & Gas
A Canadian court has jurisdiction to recognize and enforce a foreign judgment holding an oil company financially responsible for environmental pollution caused by oil development activities in Ecuador.
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