Resources
Policy Guidance Brief 1: Climate-smart Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock for Food Security, 2017 (Myanmar)
The Guidance Brief is a tool to effectively address climate change in Myanmar by aiding the understanding of key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions. Climate change has already challenged the agriculture sector in Myanmar by affecting rice yields and livestock production. There is an urgent need of further action to promote sustainable agriculture by adapting crop varieties and corresponding farming practices, improving water management especially in rice production, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from rice and livestock farming, promoting integrated farming systems and enhancing the capacity of farmers to respond to climate risks.
Policy Guidance Brief 2: Sustainable Management of Natural Resources for Healthy Ecosystems
The Guidance Brief is a tool to effectively address climate change in Myanmar by aiding the understanding of key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions. The protection and rehabilitation of natural resources of Myanmar are the keys to minimize climate risk.
Policy Guidance Brief 3: Resilient and Low-Carbon Energy, Transport and Industrial Systems for Sustainable Growth, 2017 (Myanmar)
The Guidance Brief is a tool to effectively address climate change in Myanmar by aiding the understanding of key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions. Limited access to electricity in the country translates to a greater risk to energy connectivity across the country in the face of climate change.
The Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases: Annotation to the Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases
The effort to formulate this separate set of rules is a response to the long felt need for more specific rules that can sufficiently address the procedural concerns that are peculiar to environmental cases. Most of the provisions included here are therefore remedies that are directed to the actual difficulties encountered at present by concerned government agencies, corporations, practitioners, people’s organizations, non-governmental organizations, and public-interest groups handling environmental cases.
Citizens' Handbook on Environmental Justice
The Citizen’s Handbook on Environmental Justice is a citizen-friendly material designed to help ordinary people or laypersons bring environmental cases before the courts. It is a tool to encourage citizen participation in the enforcement of environmental laws, in recognition of the key role citizens play in the protection and promotion of the environment. It is an easy reference on the various environmental violations and the procedures entailed when a case is brought before the proper forum or the court.
Environmental Impact Assessment in the Mekong Region
The Environmental Impact Assessment seeks to bring together in one volume an analysis of the environmental impact assessment systems of each of the six Mekong countries, including the common themes and approaches.
Access to Environmental Justice: A Source on Environmental Rights and Legal Remedies
Access to Environmental Justice: A Sourcebook on Environmental Rights and Legal Remedies is a recognition of the urgency of environmental justice as our common concern, the fundamental character of environmental rights and the necessity of environmental remedies. It outlines the pioneering efforts of the Supreme Court and the entire judiciary to translate into concrete programs the vision of our Constitution for a balanced and healthful ecology.
The Supreme People's Court Interpretation on Several Issues Regarding the Application of Law in Environmental Civil Public Interest Litigation
This is an unofficial translation of China’s Supreme People's Court interpretation on several issues regarding the application of law in environmental civil public interest litigation, compiled by the US- Asia Partnership for Environmental Law at Vermont Law School for the convenience of international observers. The US-Asia Partnership for Environmental Law at Vermont Law School takes no liability for any errors in this translation.
Shooting Stars and Dancing Fish: A Walk to the World We Want
The book tackles the crises of environment and climate in simple and understandable language and sees these challenges as opportunities for humankind to prove its wisdom.
The EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board at Twenty-five: An Overview of the Board’s Procedures, Guiding Principles, and Record of Adjudicating Cases
This article discusses the history of EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board, explains how it operates, and summarizes its docket and adjudication results.