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Item Towards sustainability in transboundary water resources: The role of inter-state solidarity(SAGE Publishing, 2025-01-28) McIntyre, OwenWhile cooperation regarding the management of transboundary water resources continues to improve in terms of the extent and intensity of inter-State engagement, watercourse States will increasingly need to employ flexible arrangements to facilitate the adaptive management of shared waters in response to the likely impacts of climate change. The legal challenges involved in crafting and applying such arrangements will require greater focus upon the community of interest understood to exist amongst co-basin States, and greater reliance upon the principle of solidarity underlying this concept. Though long a feature of international law, solidarity plays a particularly important role in the continuing development and functioning of international water law, and today offers a set of cooperative values to assist international water law in adapting to the looming global water crisis.Item The Risk-Tandem framework: an iterative framework for combining risk governance and knowledge co-production toward integrated disaster risk management and climate change adaptation(Elsevier, 2025-12-15) Parviainen, Janne; Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan; Cumiskey, Lydia; Bharwani, Sukaina; Schweizer, Pia-Johanna; Hofbauer, Benjamin; Cubie, Dug; European CommissionThe challenges of the Anthropocene are growing ever more complex and uncertain, underpinned by the emergence of systemic risks. At the same time, the landscape of risk governance has become compartmentalised and siloed, characterized by non-overlapping activities, competing scientific discourses, and distinct responsibilities distributed across diverse public and private bodies. Operating across scales and disciplines, actors tend to work in silos which constitute critical gaps within the interface of science, policy, and practice. Yet, increasingly complex and ‘wicked’ problems require holistic solutions, multi-scalar communication, coordination, collaboration, data interoperability, funding, and stakeholder engagement. To address these problems in a real-world context, we present the Risk-Tandem framework for bridging theory and practice; to guide and structure the integration of disaster risk management (DRM), climate change adaptation (CCA) and systemic risk management through a process of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production. Advancing the frontiers of knowledge in this regard, The Risk-Tandem framework combines risk management approaches and tools with iterative co-production processes as a cornerstone of its implementation, in efforts to promote the co-design of fit-for-purpose solutions, methods and approaches contributing toward strengthened risk governance alongside stakeholders. The paper outlines how the framework is developed, applied, and further refined within selected case study regions, including Denmark, Germany, Italy and the Danube Region.Item Temporalities in crisis: analysing the Sacchi v. Argentina case and children’s rights in the climate emergency(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2025-02-25) Paz Landeira, Florencia; Horizon 2020This article examines the Sacchi v. Argentina case, a landmark legal action led by children against five states for their role inclimate change, analysed through the lens of temporality. The case, brought before the Committee on the Rights of the Child,was pivotal in linking the climate crisis to children's rights, despite being ruled inadmissible. This paper explores the multipletemporalities inherent in the climate crisis, such as urgency, gradualness and intergenerational effects, and how they intersectwith legal frameworks and children's unique experience of time. By focusing on the narratives and claims of the child petitioners,this study investigates the disproportionate impacts of climate change on younger generations and the ways in which the lawconstructs time, offering a new perspective on the relationship between human rights and environmental justice. The analysiscontributes to the broader discourse on how to address children's rights within the growing field of climate litigation.Item The use of sanctions to achieve EU strategic autonomy: restrictive measures, the blocking statute and the anti-coercion instrument(Wolters Kluwer, 2023) Lonardo, Luigi; Viktor SzépSanctions are increasingly used by the European Union to pursue foreign and security policy objectives. Nowadays, these objectives include the protection of the Union’s strategic autonomy too. As our empirical analysis suggests, restrictive measures – the official EU notion for sanctions – define strategic autonomy as much as they are defined by it. We understand the notion of ‘sanctions’ widely, not only encompassing measures adopted within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), but also other EU acts closely connected to sanctions – including the Blocking Statute and the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) – that also aim to strengthen the Union’s strategic autonomy. The picture sanctions paint is one of strategic autonomy as a principle not only of processes, but also of substance. In terms of processes, it is an objective that allows for selective uses of partnership; and in terms of substance, it is also in the name of this principle that EU institutions have proceeded to a balancing between rights, interests, and values.Item Pax nostra: the role of armed forces in replacing the bonds of war with the bonds of charity(Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, 2024-10-04) Lefeuvre, EliseMilitary work is, in essence, the use of force; or more explicitly, the capacity to kill and destroy. This is the singularity of military work, making it unique and demanding for military personnel who must comply with extremely strict rules of conduct and decision-making. This essay looks at the latter i.e. decision making, which essentially refers to soldiers’ inner lives, beliefs, and values. The Roman Catholic Church has developed ethics of war, which are characterised by a strong focus on each soldier’s capacity for judgement and on defining soldiers as peacebuilders. Considering soldiers as enlightened men building peace during their military operations is, therefore, the proposal of the Church. This goes much beyond peacekeeping, which is the maintenance of an acceptable level of security and an avoidance of escalation. The Church believes instead that soldiers have the power to replace the bonds of war with the bonds of charity, thereby being peacebuilders even in times of war.
