NATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS

“For example, water rights originally allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis may leave no share of a river flow for ‘ecological services’ such as biodiversity conservation. Producer ‘take back’ laws on consumer products extend businesses’ responsibility for products they have sold, and a precaution-based chemicals policy can shift the burden of proof around the risk and safety of novel substances (Jordan et al. 2003). In this sense, the emergence of the environmental state coincides with a (partial) transformation of the terms on which states exercise authority, as well as the way such authority is legitimised (e.g. “

NATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS  (ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)