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Multinational Corporations, Human Rights, and Global Governance (2023)
Book Chapter
Rooney, J. (in press). Multinational Corporations, Human Rights, and Global Governance. In R. Houghton, A. O’Donoghue, Y. Brunger, C. Weixia Chen, & D. Ngira (Eds.), Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Global Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing

New Technology and the Protection of the Marine Environment (2023)
Book Chapter
Woker, H. J., Roland Holst, R. J., & Harden-Davies, H. (2023). New Technology and the Protection of the Marine Environment. In R. Rayfuse, A. Jaeckel, & N. Klein (Eds.), Research Handbook on International Marine Environmental Law (409-427). (Second Edition). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909081.00028

This chapter focusses on the multifaceted relationship between new technology, the protection of the marine environment, and law. It identifies four categories to classify and analyse this relationship: (1) new technologies for marine resource exploi... Read More about New Technology and the Protection of the Marine Environment.

Restoration Activities in the Marine Environment: Balancing Diverging Perceptions of ‘Risk’ (2023)
Book Chapter
Roland Holst, R. J. (2023). Restoration Activities in the Marine Environment: Balancing Diverging Perceptions of ‘Risk’. In F. M. Platjouw, & A. Pozdnakova (Eds.), The Environmental Rule of Law for Oceans: Designing Legal Solutions (95-107). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009253741.012

This Chapter analyses the legal challenges raised by the use of new technologies for marine environmental restoration purposes, using as a case study The Ocean Cleanup’s plastic cleanup activities in areas beyond national jurisdiction. While the obje... Read More about Restoration Activities in the Marine Environment: Balancing Diverging Perceptions of ‘Risk’.

Renewable Energy and the Law of the Sea (2022)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2022). Renewable Energy and the Law of the Sea. In J. Kraska, & Y. Park (Eds.), Emerging Technology and the Law of the Sea (35-62). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009042178.003

Contemporary technologies for offshore electricity generation and transmission enable sea uses of types and at scales that could not have been envisaged when the text of UNCLOS was agreed. The chapter considers whether UNCLOS is able to accommodate t... Read More about Renewable Energy and the Law of the Sea.

Utilizing Sustainability Assessment Framework to Obtain a Social License to Operate in Renewable Energy Projects: The Case of Murchison Hydropower Project in Uganda (2022)
Book Chapter
Azubuike, S. I., Nakanwagi, S., & Dike, S. C. (2022). Utilizing Sustainability Assessment Framework to Obtain a Social License to Operate in Renewable Energy Projects: The Case of Murchison Hydropower Project in Uganda. In G. Wood, J. Górski, & G. Mete (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Social License to Operate and Energy Transitions (1-22). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74725-1_7-1

Post-Covid-19 and African Agenda for a Green Recovery: Lessons from the European Union and the United States of America (2022)
Book Chapter
Asekomeh, A., Azubuike, S. I., & Gershon, O. (2022). Post-Covid-19 and African Agenda for a Green Recovery: Lessons from the European Union and the United States of America. In E. Osabuohien, G. Odularu, D. Ufua, & R. Osabohien (Eds.), Covid-19 in the African Continent: Sustainable Development and Socioeconomic Shocks (309-322). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-686-620221028

Towards a Win-Win EU-China Bilateral Investment Treaty: Challenges and Prospects (2022)
Book Chapter
Bush, C., & Du, M. (2022). Towards a Win-Win EU-China Bilateral Investment Treaty: Challenges and Prospects. In Y. Kim (Ed.), China and the Belt and Road Initiative (145-177). (1). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86122-3_7

Bilateral investment between China and the EU has accelerated rapidly, with both sides seeking a mutually beneficial yet sustainable relationship. Limitations remain however, given that the current legal framework governing EU-China investments are r... Read More about Towards a Win-Win EU-China Bilateral Investment Treaty: Challenges and Prospects.

Regulating the promotion of renewable electricity consumption and production: a European Union case study (2021)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2021). Regulating the promotion of renewable electricity consumption and production: a European Union case study. In M. Roggenkamp, K. de Graaf, & R. Fleming (Eds.), Energy Law, Climate Change, and the Environment (388-398). Edward Elgar Publishing

Increasing renewable electricity production and consumption is viewed worldwide as a desirable policy goal, for reasons including climate change mitigation and energy security enhancement. However, realising this goal is far from simple. This is due... Read More about Regulating the promotion of renewable electricity consumption and production: a European Union case study.

Renewable Energy Consumption (2021)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2021). Renewable Energy Consumption. In E. Woerdman, M. Roggenkamp, & M. Holwerda (Eds.), Essential EU Climate Law: 2nd edition (98-129). (2nd ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing

• Promoting the consumption of renewable energy is one of the key means to reduce carbon emissions from electricity production, heating and transportation, while it also improves energy security and contributes to economic growth; • Repealing the ear... Read More about Renewable Energy Consumption.