Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-458) and index.

The Practice of Land Grabbing and Its Compatibility with the Exercise of Territorial Sovereignty / Federica Violi -- Resources Grabbing and Human Rights: Building a Triangular Relationship Between States, Indigenous Peoples and Corporations / Jérémie Gilbert and Nadia Bernaz -- Who is Entitled to Cultivate the Land? Sovereignty, Land Resources and Foreign Investments in Agriculture in International Law / Jochen von Bernstorff -- Land Grabbing and International Human Rights: The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Elisa Ruozzi -- Water Grabbing and Water Rights: Indigenous 'Sovereignty' volume State Sovereignty? / Marta Bordignon , Roberta Greco and Giada Lepore -- Right to Water and Access to Water Resources in the European Development Policy / Marco Borraccetti -- Tackling the Grabbing of Genetic Resources and of Associated Traditional Knowledge through the Nagoya Protocol / Francesca Romanin Jacur -- Natural Resource Grabbing: The Case of Tropical Forests and redd+ / Annalisa Savaresi -- International Land Investments or the Environment Put up for Auction: The Case of the Niger Basin / Komlan Sangbana -- The European Integration and the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive: A Suitable Framework for the Implementation of the Sustainability Criteria for Biofuels Production in Third-States? / Federico Esu and Solenne Avet -- Integrating Human Rights into the Extractive Industries: How Investment Contracts Can Achieve Protection / Anil Yilmaz-Vastardis and Tara Van Ho -- The Role of International Environmental Principles in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Precautionary and Polluter Pays Principles and Partial Compensation / Tomoko Ishikawa -- Exploration and Extraction of Natural Resources: miga's Role in the Promotion of Responsible Investments in Developing Countries / Inesa Stolper -- On the World Bank's Efforts in Defence of the Human Right to Land / Francesco Seatzu -- The wto Members' Right to Protect Animals in International Trade: A tbt Perspective / Angelica Bonfanti -- Water Resources' Exploitation and Trade Flows: The Impact of International Trade Law / Julinda Beqiraj -- Energy Export Restrictions in the wto between Resource Nationalism and Sustainable Development / Ilaria Espa -- On the Financing of Civil Wars through Natural Resources: Is There a Duty of Vigilance for Third States on the Activities of Trans-National Corporations? / Marco Pertile -- Breaking the 'Resource Curse': Prosecuting Pillage of Natural Resources / Garima Tiwari -- Concluding Observations / F. Romanin Jacur , A. Bonfanti and F. Seatzu -- Bibliography / Francesca Romanin Jacur , Angelica Bonfanti and Francesco Seatzu -- Index / Francesca Romanin Jacur , Angelica Bonfanti and Francesco Seatzu.

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