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Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment

Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment rather than just read about it. In short: Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa, with additional offices in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dakar, Senegal. It takes its name from the legal principle of natural justice and it works at the local level to legally empower communities to pursue social and environmental justice.

Key takeaways

Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
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Reference excerpt

Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa, with additional offices in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dakar, Senegal. It takes its name from the legal principle of natural justice and it works at the local level to legally empower communities to pursue social and environmental justice. It also works at the national and international levels to promote the full and effective implementation of environmental laws and policies such as the Convention on Biological Diversity. Natural Justice was founded by Harry Jonas and Sanjay Kabir Bavikatte

in 2007. Natural Justice has been developing a process and tool known as community protocols in order to enable communities to understand the laws and policies that affect them, particularly those developed by government and industry without consultation. Protocols help communities illustrate their biological, cultural and spiritual resources, norms and values and assert their existing rights under local customary, domestic and international laws. Such protocols have been developed with several indigenous and local communities in Africa and Asia in order to ensure the continued practice of their customary ways of life that contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, in line with the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Community protocols are gaining recognition in international negotiations on access and benefit-sharing of genetic resources and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), endogenous development practice, and traditional health care.

See also South African environmental law

References

External links Official website Community protocols website

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment

In research: Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2007 establishments, Biodiversity, Environmental justice organizations, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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