The Centre for Law and the Environment (CLE) is a hub at Peter A. Allard School of Law for creating and spreading knowledge, ideas and practices about the role of law in securing a healthy environment and a sustainable society.

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Submissions from 2024

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Low Impact Development in the Coquitlam River Watershed: Barriers and Facilitators in Municipal Laws, Stepan Wood

Submissions from 2023

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CLE Working Paper No.1/2023--Driving Global Heating to 1.7° and Above: The New Canada Energy Future 2023 Report and Canada's Projected Oil Production to 2050, David Gooderham

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Rights of Nature: What Are They?, Stepan Wood

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Rights of Nature: Who Holds Them?, Stepan Wood

Submissions from 2022

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CLE Working Paper No. 2/2022--Mexican Salsa and Mexican Farm Workers: How International Agricultural Development Marginalizes Farm Labour, Celia White

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CLE Working Paper No. 1/2022--How Law Shapes Food Sovereignty in Urban Canada, Julia Witmer

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CLE Working Paper No. 3/2022--What is the Test for Interlocutory Injunctions Affecting Homeless Encampments? A critique of Vancouver Fraser Port Authority v Brett and associated case law, Stepan Wood

Submissions from 2021

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CLE Working Paper No. 3/2021--A Roof Over Our Stomachs: The Right to Housing in Canada and Its Implications for the Right to Food, Tasha Stansbury

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CLE Working Paper No.2/2021--Defending Nature Against Rodenticides, Marie Turcott

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CLE Working Paper No.1/2021--Grassroots and Litigation-Based Approaches to Advancing Indigenous Rights: Lessons from Extractive Industry Resistance in Mesoamerica, Justin Wiebe

Submissions from 2020

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CLE Working Paper No.1/2020--Rights of Nature Legislation for British Columbia: Issues and Options, Rachel Garrett and Stepan Wood

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CLE Working Paper No.2/2020--Responsible Scholarship in a Crisis: A Plea for Fairness in Academic Discourse on the Carbon Pricing References, Stepan Wood, Meinhard Doelle, and Dayna Nadine Scott