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Legal and Scientific Resources for Central America
Cases
Belize -- Ara Macao v. Peninsula Citizens for Sustainable Development, 362 of 2007 (6 May 2008) (words not defamatory)
Belize -- Aurelio Cal, et al. v. Attorney General of Belize, Supreme Court of Belize (Claim 121/2007) (18 Oct 2007) (Mayan land rights)
Belize -- BACONGO v. Department of the Environment and Belize Electric Company Limited (Application for Judicial Review)
Belize -- BACONGO v. Department of the Environment and Belize Electric Company Limited (Judgment of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (29 January 2004) (Chalillo - 2 of 2 Privy Council decisions)
Belize -- BACONGO v. Department of the Environment and Belize Electric Company Limited (Judgment upon a Petition for a Conservatory Order of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (13 August 2003) (Chalillo) (1 of 2 decisions)
Belize -- BACONGO v. Department of the Environment and Belize Electricity Company Limited, Privy Council Appeal No. 47 of 2003 (13 August 2003) (Chalillo Dam preliminary injunction denial)
Belize -- BACONGO v. Department of the Environment and Belize Electricity Company Limited, Privy Council Appeal No. 47 of 2003 (Chalillo Dam, costs decision)
Belize -- SATIIM v. Forest Dept. Min of Natural Resources and U.S. Capital (26-6-06)
Belize -- SATIIM v. Forest Dept. Min of Natural Resources and U.S. Capital (29-9-06)
Belize Institute for Environmental Law (BELPO) v. Department of Environment (DOE), Supreme Court of Belize (30 June 2008) (Claim No. 302 OF 2007)
Costa Rica -- Carlos Roberto Mejía Chacón Case, Voto No. 3705-93, July 30, 1993 (español)
Costa Rica -- Exp. 00-000543-0007-CO (espanol) (annulling offshore oil exploration license awarded by government) (8 September 2000)
Costa Rica -- Exp. 00-000543-0007-CO (espanol) (modifying annulment) (11 November 2000)
Costa Rica -- Exp. No. 6667-S-96 Voto No. 3515-97 (CONAI budget) (espanol)
Costa Rica -- Exp. Nº 4320-P-92 Nº2253-96 (espanol) (indigenous representation on CONAI)
Costa Rica -- Proyecto Perforación de Pozo Exploratorio Petrolero (fase 2) Resolución Nº 0146 - 2002 - SETENA
Costa Rica -- Tortugas Marinas: Voto 1999
Guatemala -- Bay Island Trader case - Corte de Constitucionalidad, Expediente No. 2523 and 2525-2008 (26 marzo 2009)
Guatemala -- OPINION CONSULTIVA RELATIVA AL CONVENIO NÚM. 169 SOBRE PUEBLOS INDíGENAS Y TRIBALES EN PAISES INDEPENDIENTES Y CONVENIO No. 169 (OIT), Exp. 199-95 (Abril 1995)
Guatemala -- Resolución del Procurador de Derechos Humanos - Denuncia presentada por Vecinos de la Colonia Veinte de Octubre (condena la actividad de las arenera)
Guatemala -- Sentencia Declarando la Inconstitucionalidad de los Articulos 19, 20, 21, 24, 27, 75, 81 y 86 de la Ley de Mineria Decreto 48-97
Honduras -- Recurso de Inconstitucionalidad No. 172-06 (inconstitucionalidad de la Ley General de Minería)
Inter American -- Kawas Fernández vs. Honduras (3 abril 2009) (espanol)
Inter American -- Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua (2001) (Inter American Court of Human Rights - Eng. translation)
Inter American -- Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua (2001) (Inter American Court of Human Rights - Esp/Sp)
EIAs
Belize -- Ara Macao Resort and Marina in Placencia, Stann Creek District (January 2006)
Belize -- Belize Electric Company Ltd. Vaca Hydroelectric Project, Cayo District (April 2006)
Belize -- Belize Natural Energy: Spanish Lookout Field Oil Development (March 2007)
Belize -- EIA for proposed Chalillo Dam in Belize -- Macal River Upstream Storage Facility EIA (August 2001)
Belize -- False Caye Resort and Residential Development; A Tourism Project for False Caye 5 nautical miles north of the Placencia Peninsula (September 2007)
Belize -- Hugh Parkey's Belize Adventure Island (formerly Spanish Bay Resort); A Proposed Tourism Expansion Project for Spanish Lookout Caye (February 2008)
Belize -- Placencia Marina, A Project of Placencia Marina Limited at Blair Atholl, Placencia Peninsula, Stann Creek District (June 2009)
Belize -- Proposed Macal River Chalillo Project; Macal River Upstream Storage Facility (October 1999)
Belize -- Proposed Sarstoon Temash Oil Exploration Project Toledo District (June 2007)
Guatemala -- Oil Processing Plant at Salama y Caban (June 2005)
Guatemala -- Proyeta Minero Fenix (June 2006)
General Publications
Costa Rica -- Financing Environmental Services: The Costa Rican Experience and Its Implications (215 KB)
Costa Rica -- Guía Legal para reconocer el derecho de los pueblos indígenas al aprovechamiento y manejo de los recursos naturale
Costa Rica -- Implementing Vehicle Inspection and On-Road Enforcement Programs in Costa Rica
Costa Rica -- Las concesiones petroleras en el Caribe Costarricense (Documentación del caso: "un ejemplo de participación ciudad
Costa Rica -- Régimen legal de los recursos marinos y costeros en Costa Rica
Costs and Benefits of Soil Conservation: The Farmers` Viewpoint (1.61 MB)
El Salvador -- Land Degradation Problems in El Salvador (787 KB)
Honduras: Manual para la Participación Comunitaria en el campo de la Minería
Manual for the Management of Evidence in Cases of Water Contamination
Manual para el Manejo de la Evidencia en Casos de Contaminacion Hidrica
Pagos por Servicios Ambientales (557 KB)
Panama -- Is reducing emissions from deforestation financially feasible? A Panamanian case study (2008)
Tourism and the Environment in the Caribbean - An Economic Framework (4.76 MB)
Laws
Belize -- Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations (1995) -- Statutory Instrument No. 107 of 1995
Belize -- Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations (2007) -- Statutory Instrument 24 of 2007
Belize -- Environmental Protection Act (2000)
Belize -- Macal River Hydroelectric Development Bill, 2003 (Chalillo Dam)
Belize -- Proposed EIA Regulations Amendments (2005)
Belize -- Water Resources Management Act 2006 (DRAFT)
Central America -- Reglamento OSP-01-09 del Sistema Integrado de Registro Pesquero y Acuicola Centroamericano (SIRPAC)
Central America -- Reglamento OSP-02-09 para el Ordenamiento Regional de la Pesqueria de la Langosta del Caribe (Panulirus Argus)
Costa Rica - Reglamento de Vertido y Reuso de Aguas Residuales
Costa Rica -- Biodiversity Law/Ley de Biodiversidad (1998)(español)
Costa Rica -- Ley Forestal 7575 (articulo 46 y 47)
Ecuador -- NORMA DE CALIDAD AMBIENTAL Y DE DESCARGA DE EFLUENTES : RECURSO AGUA
Guatemala -- Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas, Resolucion No. 13/2007/SC
Guatemala -- Constitution (2002) (espanol)
Guatemala -- Fisheries Law (2002) (in Qeqchi)
Guatemala -- Manual de Normas Sanitarias que Establecen Los Procesos y Metodos de Purificacuib de Agua para Consumo Humano (Acuerdo Ministerial No. 1148.09)
Guatemala -- REGLAMENTO DE LAS DESCARGAS Y REUSO DE AGUAS RESIDUALES Y DE LA DISPOSICIÓN DE LODOS
Guatemala -- Reglamento para el Aprovechamiento del Mangle (Resolucion No. 01.25.98), Instituto Nacional de Bosques (INAB)
Guatemala: Ley General de Pesca y Acuicultura
Honduras -- Ley General del Ambiente
Mexico -- Federal Transparency and Access to Public Government Information Law (english translation)
Mexico -- NORMA Oficial Mexicana NOM-003-ECOL-1997, Que establece los límites máximos permisibles decontaminantes para las aguas residuales tratadas que se reusen en servicios al público
Nicaragua -- Fomento Del Sector Forestal (Forest Law - Spanish)
Nicaragua -- Ley De Pesca Y Acuicultura (Fish and Aquaculture Draft Law - Spanish)
Nicaragua -- Ley Exspecial Sobre Exploracion Y Explotacion De Minas (Mining Law - Spanish)
Nicaragua -- Ley No. 445: Ley del Regimen de Propiedad Comunal de Los Pueblos Indigenas Y Comunidades Etnicas de Las Regiones Autonomas de La Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua Y de Los Rios Bocay, Coco, Indio Y Maiz (Demarcation Law - Spanish)
Nicaragua -- Special Law For The Conduct Of Lawsuits Filed By Persons Affected By The Use Of Pesticides Manufactured With A DBCP Base (English Translation)
Panama - 2610-EAC-111- Norma para descarga de efluentes y metodología para su verificación
Other Resources
Guatemala -- Reglamento Para El Aprovechamiento Del Mangle
Belize -- Chalillo Dam 3rd Master Agreement
Belize -- Hol Chan Marine Reserve Management Plan (English)
Belize -- Hol Chan Marine Reserve Management Plan (English)
Belize -- National Legislation, Policies and Institutional Framework for the Management of the Mesoamerican Reef System (SAM)
Belize -- Survey of Land-Related Laws of Belize (2000)
Can International Mechanisms Support Local Efforts?
Central America -- Matrices del SAM/Matrix of Laws Mesoamerican Reef System
Costa Rica -- National Climate Change Strategy
Guatemala -- Acuerdo Gubernativo 432-2002
Guatemala -- Decreto Numero 101-96
Guatemala -- Decreto Numero 4-89
Guatemala -- Decreto Numero 68-86
Guatemala -- ILO Art. 24 Report on Guatemalan Nickle Corp. license/indigenous Maya Q'eqchi people in the El Estor municipality (4 June 2007)
Guatemala -- Instrumento de Adhesión de la Convención Interamericana para la Protección y Conservación de las Tortugas Marinas
Guatemala -- Ley de creacion del Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
Guatemala -- Ley de creacion Viceministerios Ambiente
Guatemala -- Reglamento de la Ley Reguladora de las Areas de Reserva Territoriales
Inter-American -- El Derecho al Medio Ambiente en el Sistema Interamericano de Proteccion de Derechos Humanos: En busca de la implementación de una estrategia de litigio regional
Inter-American -- The Right to a Healthy Environment in the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights: In Search of the implementation of a regional litigation strategy (English)
Legal Research: Court Websites Database
Nicaragua -- El Caso Awas Tingni Los Derechos Territoriales (Power Point Presentation at the 2003 PIELC)
Panama: Petaquilla Minerals Annual Report for fiscal year ending May 31, 2008
Principles for the Management of Protected Areas in Mesoamerica (English and Espanol)
Related Links
"No Seas Presa de las Represas"-- Manual for fighting dam projects
Barbados -- People-centred approaches to coral reef management: Lessons learned at CERMES (Centre for Resource Management and En
Documents related to Mayan land rights claims
Belize -- Laws on-line
Belize -- The Laws of Belize
Constitutions from OAS member states and Cuba -- Georgetown University
Costa Rica -- Leatherback Project at Las Baulas National Park, Costa Rica
Dominican Republic -- Biodiversity Act: background and analysis
Forum Non-Conveniens Checkmated?- The Emergence of Retaliatory Legislation by Winston Anderson
Haiti -- Environmental Laws of Haiti
Honduras -- Cayos Cochinos Management Plan (English)
Honduras -- Constitution of Honduras (Espanol)
Honduras -- Honduras Coral Reef Fund Management Plan (English)
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (description)
Inter-American Development Bank
Jamaica -- National Environment and Planning Agency
La furia del oro azul: La privatización del agua en Latinoamérica (español)
Latin American and Caribbean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Nicaragua -- Constitution of Nicaragua (Espanol)
Panama -- Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente de Panama
The Leatherback Trust (Leatherback sea turtle conservation)
Trinidad & Tobago: Link to environmental laws
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