Meysam Lotfi; Masoud Faryadi; Farhang FaghihLarijani
Abstract
Misallocation of industries can cause environmental degradation and land misuse, and therefore, to control the deleterious impacts of which on the environment, it is required to use land planning besides the environmental rules on the allocation of industrial units in accordance with the environmental ...
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Misallocation of industries can cause environmental degradation and land misuse, and therefore, to control the deleterious impacts of which on the environment, it is required to use land planning besides the environmental rules on the allocation of industrial units in accordance with the environmental characteristics of land. This article, addressing the interplay between land planning and environmental law, discusses the mechanisms of land planning application in reasonable location of industries and the challenges that hinder this process. The article exercises the land planning regulation in Iran’s environmental law and concludes that land planning can pave the way for the environmentally sound location of the industries through three mechanisms: industrial development strategy designation, zoning for the industries, and their wastes. However, due to some legal ambiguities in land planning, the Iranian environmental law does not apply this instrument in the environmentally sound location of the industries appropriately. The article suggests effective enforcement of land planning in the environmentally sound location of the industries through the legal and institutional improvement of land planning rules in Iran’s environmental law.
Masoud Faryadi
Abstract
Inter-basin water transfer has been suggested as a short-time solution to the water scarcity problem. However, this solution makes some environmental, social and economic problems including but not limited to endangering water resources, unequal distribution of social and economic costs and benefits. ...
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Inter-basin water transfer has been suggested as a short-time solution to the water scarcity problem. However, this solution makes some environmental, social and economic problems including but not limited to endangering water resources, unequal distribution of social and economic costs and benefits. Solving these problems involves regulating the transfer of water by appropriate legal provisions so that it can guarantee the reasonable, sustainable and equitable transfer of water through legal mechanisms. Inter-basin water transfer has been regulated in some legal systems through some mechanisms such as the implementation of environmental impact assessment of the inter-basin water transfer projects and water protection rules. Adapting a national strategy for integrated water management and public participation in water distribution has been offered to manage water transfer in a sustainable way. The legal system should assure that the inter-basin water transfer is the last resort and is exercised based on ex-ante and ex-post assessments. Inter-basin water transfer has not been regulated in the Iranian legal system in spite of the many water transfer projects and therefore there is an urgent need to its regulation by the appropriate legal rules.
