Environmental Regulatory Research Group
The Environmental Regulatory Research Group (ERRG) is based at the School of Law in the University of Surrey. The Group deals with four main areas: Climate Change, Environmental and Public Health, Natural Resources, and Water. In each of these areas ERRG is actively involved in research, teaching and consultancy. ERRG members include researchers based at the University of Surrey and external members coming from a wide spectrum of countries and different academic backgrounds.[Download ERRG Flyer]
Latest News
May 2010
ERRG Deputy Director delivers a seminar before the UKELA Climate Change Committee in the offices of Nabarro LLP, London, on 15 June 2010. F. Sindico, "Climate Change and International Trade" [slides]
ERRG members participate in the XIIth edition National Conference with International Participation ‘Romanian Rural Tourism in the Context of Sustainable Development. Present and Future’, Romanian Academy Iaşi Branch, Vatra Dornei, Romania, on 28 May 2010. Francesco Sindico was a member of the conference's scientific committee while Gabriela Oanta gave a presentation titled “The Lisbon Treaty and its Consequences for Rural Development and Sustainable Tourism: A Case Study of Romania”
April 2010
ERRG Deputy Director visits the University of São Paulo as a member of the University of Surrey delegation in the framework of the Global Partnership between the two universities. On April 19 at the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo he gave a presentation on the project ERRG is carrying out on the Guarani Aquifer System:
F. Sindico, “The Guarani Aquifer System and the Emerging International Law on Transboundary Aquifers” [slides]
ERRG has published 2010 Report. [ERRG Report]
Latest Publications
F. Costamagna and F. Sindico, “The Linkages Between Access to Water and Water Scarcity with International Investment Law and the WTO Regime”, in P. Cullet, A. Gowlland-Gualtieri, R. Madhav & U. Ramanathan eds, Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws, New Delhi, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 269-298
Surrey Law Working Paper - The Establishment of Legal Frameworks for Independent and Small-scale Water Providers:
Report presented at case study workshops in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22nd May 2009 and Kisumu, Kenya, 27th May 2009
K. Tienhaara, The Expropriation of Environmental Governance: Protecting Foreign Investors at the Expense of Public Policy, Cambridge, Cambirdge University Press, 2009
F. Sindico, “Climate and Trade in a Divided World: Can Measures Adopted in the North End Up Shaping Climate Change Legislative Frameworks in the South?”, in Y. Le Bouthillier, H. McLeod-Kilmurray, B. Richardson and S. Wood (Eds.), Climate Law and Developing Countries: Legal and Policy Challenges for the World Community, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2009, pp. 361-385.
R. M. Fernández Egea & F. Sindico, “Cambio climático y comercio: su dimensión Norte-Sur” [Climate change and trade: Its North South Dimension], 12 Revista Jurídica de la Universidad de Granada (2009), pp. 223-260.[full paper]
