Recently added articles from Georgetown International Environmental Law Review:

Genetic Use Restriction Technologies: Do the Potential Environmental Harms Outweigh the Economic Benefits?

Jan 01, 2008; Barron, Jason A ... INTRODUCTION For more than 10,000 years, agriculture has been big business.1 The agricultural revolution that started in Mesopotamia led to the development of society as it exists today.2 Development of agriculture led to food storage, allowing for diversification of jobs and increased ...

Narrowing the Accountability Gap: Toward a New Foreign Investor Accountability Mechanism

Jan 01, 2008; Bridgeman, Natalie L; Hunter, David B ... I. INTRODUCTION An ever-increasing number of standards, guidelines, principles, norms, and best practices (hereinafter "standards and norms") have been adopted to address the environmental and social impacts of multinational enterprises ("MNEs"). This increase in standards and norms ...

A New Call of the Wild: Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Namibia

Jan 01, 2008; Boudreaux, Karol ... ABSTRACT The Namibian government is currently addressing the twin goals of environment protection and rural economic development by means of an innovative policy of community-based natural resource management. This policy, implemented by a legislative amendment in 1996, is helping to ...

An Extinction Bar to Patentability

Jan 01, 2008; Torrance, Andrew W ... Biodiversity possesses significant economic value, not least as a source of natural biochemicals discovered through bioprospecting. However, human activities are currently destroying biodiversity at a rapid rate, along with a rich source of natural biochemicals. Stemming this destruction ...