{"title":"The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR Act) Comparative Presentation with LA Act 1894","authors":"B. Mishra","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2475800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2475800","url":null,"abstract":"India from pre-independence stage was going for land acquisition for developmental purpose/public purpose, following the procedure laid down by British India Government in Land Acquisition Act 1894. The Act continued to play a big role till 2003 when government of India thought to amend it to make it people centric. The Land Acquisition and Resettlement & Rehabilitation Bill was presented in 2007, 2009, however a sincere effort was made to bring the new land acquisition Bill in the year 2011 by placing a Bill in Lok Sabha known as LARR Bill 2011. After a long deliberation both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha passed the Bill and the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation & Resettlement Bill 2012 was finally passed on 4th September 2013 in Rajya Sabha also. Presidential assent got in 5th September 2013 and the Act in short RTFCLARR Act 2013 came in to force from 1st January 2014 replacing the 118 year old Act 1894. It is no doubt people centric and there is a paradigm shift from a process of acquisition to consented acquisition. In the PPT file I tried to make it more lucid and understandable with its financial impact and time for a broader understanding of the whole process and land acquisition in the new format.","PeriodicalId":105884,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Legal Issues & the Environment (Topic)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123363225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges for Sustainable Development and Its Legal Response in China: A Perspective for Social Transformation","authors":"Tianbao Qin","doi":"10.3390/SU6085075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/SU6085075","url":null,"abstract":"With rapid development since the 1970s, China is entering a period of social transformation, which not only creates favorable conditions for sustainable development but also presents new challenges. The transitional period in China is a stage in which two types of social transformation coexist, the first is the social transformation from agricultural society to industrial society; the second is the transition from industrial society to postindustrial society. In this process of social transformation, new challenges arise for sustainable development in China. In the first layer of social transformation, we respond to the challenges presented by the social transformation through the establishment of basic principles of environmental law, legal enforcement mechanisms, basic legal regimes and so on. In the second layer of social transformation, the advent of a risk society raised new challenges to environmental law, including that of adjusting the function of environmental law, strengthening the precautionary principle, diversification of implementation mechanisms, and development of the preventive function of legal regimes. In order to better respond to these challenges, we should proceed with the following aspects: improve the legal functions of environmental law, including guaranteeing public security, ecological security and the coordination of multiple interests; expand and develop the content of the principle of prevention, and replace the polluter pays principle by the causer responsibility principle; combine administrative measures with economic incentives, and while setting government as the main executive body, effectively operate public participation mechanisms; expand the scope of environmental impact assessment of projects, and establish planning environmental impact assessment, build up and improve information disclosure system, and establish environmental risk assessment system and green tax system.","PeriodicalId":105884,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Legal Issues & the Environment (Topic)","volume":"318 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133764562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Determinants of Pollution Levels: Firm-Level Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing","authors":"Liangliang Jiang, Chen Lin, P. Lin","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1924343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1924343","url":null,"abstract":"Using a large, unique, firm-level dataset from the Chinese manufacturing sector, we study important factors that are related to emission intensity for three pollutants in China – sulfur dioxide, wastewater, and soot. Our main findings are as follows: (1) compared to state-owned enterprises (SOEs), both foreign-owned firms and domestic public-listed firms exhibit less intensive pollutant emissions; (2) firms in regions with less local protection have lower pollution intensity; (3) better property rights protection is negatively correlated with pollutant discharge over and beyond the national standards; and (4) larger firms, firms in industries that export more, and firms with more educated employees pollute less. These results suggest that China should not target foreign firms more harshly in its effort to reduce industrial pollution. Better institutions in the form of more effective law enforcement and lower entry barriers across regional markets are also means of curbing China’s pressing environmental problems during its current stage of economic development.","PeriodicalId":105884,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Legal Issues & the Environment (Topic)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124327252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}