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What is The Polluter Pays Principle

Chapter 8
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Organizational Governance During Health Crises
The polluter pays principle stands for the idea that “the environmental costs of economic activities, including the cost of preventing potential harm, should be internalized rather than imposed upon society at large.” All issues related to responsibility for cost for environmental remediation and compliance with pollution control regulations involve this principle.
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Legal Studies Over the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on International Peace and Security
Nima Norouzi (Bournemouth University, UK)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9213-7.ch008
Abstract
The main focus of this study is on the topic of the global epidemic of Covid-19 and international peace and security. The practice of the council indicates the expansion of its competencies and its extension from military to civilian threats. The council has twice before adopted resolutions on AIDS and Ebola, which have deemed the situation a threat to international peace and security. If the council wishes to apply the same logic to the description and assessment of the Covid-19, it will, as in the previous two cases, declare it a threat to international peace and security, given the extent of the spread of the disease. However, the Security Council became passive in the wind, and more than three months after the announcement of Covid-19 as a global epidemic by the World Health Organization, with the passage of UNSCR 2532 dated 1 July 2020, it considered international peace and security.
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