Professors of RUDN University Institute of Law participated in the annual European Environmental Legal Forum 2017
Professors of RUDN University Institute of Law participated in the annual European Environmental Legal Forum conference 2017, which was organized as a joint effort of the European Environmental Law Forum (EELF), the Nordic Environmental Law, Governance & Science Network (NELN+), the University of Copenhagen (Faculty of Science) and Aarhus University (School of Law). The Copenhagen conference was dedicated to the sustainable management of natural resources and the role of different legal approaches and instruments. Sustainable management of natural resources such as water, biodiversity and air remains a key concern at EU as well as national level.
The Forum was attended by young scientists and well-known all over the world scientists, specializing in national environmental law, European environmental law and international environmental law, such as:
Klaus Bosselmann, Professor of Law, University of Auckland and director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law.
Hans Bruyninckx, Executive director of the European Environment Agency.
Ludwig Krämer, Director of Derecho y Medio Ambiente, Madrid and senior lawyer. Ludwig Krämer served as the European Commission's Chief Counsel on the environment, successively responsible of legal and enforcement issues, waste management and environmental sustainability.
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Professor of law, University of Waterloo and Senior Director of Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL).
On August 31, within the framework of the section on Arctic problems, Ph.D., Associate Professor of RUDN University International Law Department Solntsev A.M . together with Ph.D., Senior Researcher of the Scientific Research Center for Ecological Safety at the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, A.V. Kodolova made a report «Legal problems of the restoration of disturbed territories in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation».
Biologists from RUDN University working together with their colleagues from the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Flax studied the genes that determine the fatty acid composition in flaxseed oil and identified polymorphisms in six of them. The team also found out what gene variations could extend the shelf life of flaxseed oil. This data can be used to improve the genetic selection of new flax breeds. The results were published in the BMC Plant Biology journal.
The soils of urban gardens and vegetable patches contain a lot of toxicants (including lead and arsenic) in high concentrations which can be harmful to the health of children and people with chronic diseases. A team of soil scientists from RUDN University suggested a remediation method developed based on data collected in a garden of Brooklyn (NY, U.S.).
Biologists from RUDN University working together with their colleagues from the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Flax studied the genes that determine the fatty acid composition in flaxseed oil and identified polymorphisms in six of them. The team also found out what gene variations could extend the shelf life of flaxseed oil. This data can be used to improve the genetic selection of new flax breeds. The results were published in the BMC Plant Biology journal.
A team of biologists analyzed soil samples from a pasture and a regularly mowed meadow and found out that grazing lets more carbon get into the soil than mowing. This, in turn, improves the carbon cycle and makes microorganisms more efficient.
The soils of urban gardens and vegetable patches contain a lot of toxicants (including lead and arsenic) in high concentrations which can be harmful to the health of children and people with chronic diseases. A team of soil scientists from RUDN University suggested a remediation method developed based on data collected in a garden of Brooklyn (NY, U.S.).