Haiti: A Pathfinder to Post-Earthquake Responses for Environmental and Natural Resources

Haiti: Environmental Legal Resources

Haiti Pathfinder Home Page								Environmental Law Program

Compiled by: Stephanie K. Marshall, Assistant Director for Faculty Services, Coleman Karesh Law Library.

This list is organized around four themes: Haiti-specific Information; Environmental Law Web Guides & Directories; General Legal Resources; Open Sources for law review articles.

Haiti-specific Information

2010 Earthquake in Haiti

U.S. Department of State

http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/ha/earthquake/index.htm

CIA World Factbook

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ha.html

Environmental International agreements

Convention on Biodiversity Status

http://www.cbd.int/doc/world/ht/ht-nbsap-01-en.pdf

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

Francophonie

An international organization analogous roughly to the British Commonwealth but for former French colonies

http://www.francophonie.org/Haiti.html

Haiti is a member. Caveat: Much of the content is in French.

GlobaLex - Researching Haitian Law

http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Haiti.htm

Structure of Government & Laws

Haiti Earthquake Response

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health

http://tools.niehs.nih.gov/wetp/index.cfm?id=2479

Haiti Guidance and Information

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

http://www.hhs.gov/haiti/guidance.html

Health Resources for Haiti

http://disaster.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/haitiearthquake.html

National Institutes of Health; National Library of Medicine created this apprehensive list of Haiti resources

Information about the Earthquake in Haiti

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/earthquakes/

Latin America and the Caribbean: Haiti Earthquake

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

http://www.usaid.gov/helphaiti/

NATLEX

http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.home

Database of labor, social security and human rights laws maintained by the International Labor Organization (Haiti's page http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.country?p_lang=en&p_country=HTI

OAS Treaty page

http://www.oas.org/dil/treaties_and_agreements.htm

This Organization of States (OAS) depository, maintained by the Secretariat for Legal Affairs, contains information for inter-American treaties and the agreements of the OAS and its organs.

Public Health Issues and Priorities for the Haiti Earthquake

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/earthquakes/

Public Health Responders in Haiti

http://www.hhs.gov/disasters/emergency/naturaldisasters/earthquake/haiti/index.html#first

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

State Department: Background Notes (last updated 09/09)

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1982.htm

U.S. Department of State site with a profile of Haiti including history, government, economy, travel/business, etc.

Environmental Law Web Guides & Directories

American Society of International Law

http://www.asil.org/resource/env1.htm

ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Environmental Law. The American Society of International Law advances international law scholarship and education for international law professionals as well as for broader policy-making audiences and the public.

A Brief Guide to the Management of Building Waste Materials in Emergencies

http://www.sheltercentre.org/library/A+Brief+Guide+Management+Building+Waste+Materials+Emergencies

This project is a collaboration between ProAct Network, Disaster Waste Recovery (DWR) and Shelter Centre.

Cornell's Legal Information Institute

http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/environmental.html

The Legal Information Institute is a non-profit activity of Cornell Law School supported by grants, the consulting work of its co-directors, and gifts.

Disaster Recovery and Environmental Health

http://disaster.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/disasterrecovery.html

Enviro-Health Links, National Library of Medicine

Disaster Site Management

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/emres/sitemgt.html

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Duke's IGO & NGO Research Guides

http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/ngo_guide/

International and Non-governmental Organization Research Guides created by Duke University librarians.

ECOLEX

http://www.ecolex.org/start.php

Search treaties, legislation, court decisions & literature

Electronic Information System for International Law

http://www.eisil.org/

EISIL has been developed, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, by the American Society of International Law (ASIL), a scholarly association that has been a leader in the analysis, dissemination and development of international law since 1906.

Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters: A Practical Guide

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/emergencies/emergencies2002/en/

World Health Organization (WHO)

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

http://www.elaw.org/

E-Law Network of over 300 public interest advocates from 60 countries

Environmental Law Websites

http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/envirolinks/index.htm

Georgetown University Law-International & Foreign Law Dept.

Environmental LawNet

http://lawvianet.com/

Environmental Law site created by David Blackmar, an environmental and energy lawyer.

Environmental Treaties & Resource Indicators (ENTRI)

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/entri/

Multi-lateral environmental treaty data

FAOLex (Legal Office of the Food and Agriculture Office of the United Nations)

http://faolex.fao.org/faolex/index.htm

A database of laws on agriculture, real property and fisheries maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization; contains selected laws of Haiti.

FindLaw: Environmental Law:

http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/13environmental/index.html

Newsletters, expert witnesses, investigators, etc.

Forest Landscapes Initiative

http://www.wri.org/project/global-forest-watch

Georgetown University Law Library-Environmental Law Research Guide

http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/environmental.cfm

GlobaLex

http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/International_Environmental_Legal_Research1.htm

A Basic Guide to International Environmental Legal Research

International Crisis Group

http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/

(Reports & Briefings)

International Environmental Law Research Guide-Georgetown Law Library

http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/guides/InternationalEnvironmentalLaw.cfm

Mulilateral Project (Tufts)

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html

Texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments

National Technical Information Service

http://www.ntis.gov/

Northwestern University's International Documents Collection

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/resource/internat/countries.html

Organization of American States

http://www.oas.org/en/news/haiti_earthquake_relief/haiti_earthquake_relief.asp

UC Berkeley's IGO Subject Guides

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/intl/gov_intlgen.html

United Nations Environment Programme

http://www.unep.org/

U.S. Department of State: See Country Profiles

http://www.state.gov/

USAID (Agency for International Development)

http://www.usaid.gov/

Virtual Chase Environmental Law Research Guide

http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/environmental.shtml

WHO Technical Notes for Emergencies: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/envsan/technotes/en/

World Health Organization (WHO)

World Resources Institute

http://www.wri.org/

General Legal Resources

WorldCat

http://www.worldcat.org

Search the collections of libraries in your community and worldwide at once to locate books, CDs, videos, and digital content as well as some article citations that link to their full-text:

Open Sources for law review articles

ABA's Free Full-text Online Law Review/Law Journal Search Engine

http://www.abanet.org/tech/ltrc/lawreviewsearch.html

Advance Legal Scholar> Legal Opinions and journals

http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search

Legal Journals Online

http://law.usc.edu/library/resources/journals.cfm

General and Subject Specific Law Reviews

Full Text, Abstracts, and Tables of Contents

Legal Tab>Area of Law by Topic> Environment>Search Analysis, Law Reviews & Journals

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)

http://www.ssrn.com/

For Open sources for law review articles