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New: African Soil Protection Law
African Soil Protection Law: Mapping out options for a model legislation for improved sustainable soil management in Africa – a comparative legal analysis from Kenya, Cameroon and Zambia. Edited by Prof. Dr. Oliver C. Ruppel, LL.M. and Dr. Harald Ginzky. 2021, 528...
DROP director ‘Expert Reviewer’ in the IPCC Scholarship Programme
The Sixth Round of Awards of the United Nations Intergovernmental Programme on Climate Chnage (IPCC) Scholarship Programme is on now and Professor Oliver Ruppel was again nominated as distinguished Expert Reviewer. The IPCC Scholarship Programme was established with...
DROP joins FAO SoiLex Global Soil Partnership
http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/resources/events/detail/en/c/1364883/
DROP supports Spring Cohort (2021) of the GPODS Fellowship
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DROP Director joins Editorial Board of the new Journal for Soil Security
Soil security is the ability for soil to sustain functions to provide planetary services and human wellbeing. The new Journal for Soil Security aims to publish papers covering all facets of this far-reaching definition. In particular, it will publish multidisciplinary...
DROP @ Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
Webinar held on 15 Oct 2020 on Climate Crisis and Covid-19 collide: Resilience through Information, Governance and Justice....
DROP welcomes Prof Xiaohu Zhang as new fellow
Prof Xiaohu Zhang is Associate Professor of Law at Xiangtan University in China, deputy director of Centre for African Laws and Society, researcher of China-Africa Institute for Business and Law, currently visiting scholar at Stellenbosch University and executive...
DROP welcomes Eeshan Chaturvedi as new fellow
Eeshan Chaturvedi is a renowned environmental and energy lawyer, and scholar. He is the Founder-Director of 'EnviPol' (envipol.org) and Co-Director of the Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability (GPODS) Fellowship (gpods.org). At DROP we look forward to the new...
Climate change and decarbonisation @ International Bar Association
DROP director Prof OC Ruppel recently addressed the International Bar Association (IBA), which is comprised of more than 80,000 international lawyers from most of the world’s leading law firms and some 190 bar associations and law societies spanning more than 170...
Prof. Dr. Eva Schulev-Steindl now distinguished non-resident senior fellow at DROP
DROP is privileged to welcome Prof. Dr. Eva Schulev-Steindl as a distinguished non-resident senior fellow. She is Professor of Public Law and Economic Law at the University of Graz in Austria Her research focuses on environmental and climate law as well as on the...