Environmental law and sustainability after Rio

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Title:

Author:

Benidickson, Jamie.

ISBN:

9780857932242

Publication Information:

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, c2011.

Physical Description:

xiii, 413 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series

IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series.

Contents:

Reflecting on Rio : Environmental Law in the Coming Decades / Capacity Building in Environmental Law in African Universities / Local Agenda 21 : A Rights-based Approach to Local Environmental Governance / Brazilian Socioambientalismo and Environmental Justice / Risk Society and the Precautionary Principle / Measuring the Environment through Public Procurement / A Sustainable and Equitable Legal Order / The Courts and Public Participation in Environmental Decisionmaking / Enchanced Access to Environmental Justice in Kenya / Towards a New Theory of Environmental Liability Without Proof of Damage / Diffuse Damages in Environmental Torts in Brazil / Transboundary Aquifers : Towards Substantive and Process Reform in Treaty-making / Achieving Sustainability : Plant Breeders' and Farmers' Rights / International Law and Sustainable Energy : A Portrait of Failure / Cross-border Gas Pipelines and Sustainability in Southern Africa / Is EU Climate Change Policy Legally Robust? / Combating Climate Change in Uganda / Contractual Tools for Implementing the CBD in South Africa / Mangrove Swamps and Sustainability / The Amazonian Treaty and Harmonisation of Environmental Legislation

Subject Term:

Environmental law, International.

Sustainable development -- Law and legislation.

Environmental policy.

Added Author:

Benidickson, Jamie.

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Summary

This book examines the development of environmental law in the period since the ground-breaking 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development or 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro.

It demonstrates that a great deal has been achieved in the field of environmental law since the 1990s. However, the extraordinary environmental crises facing humanity in the 21st century indicate a continuing urgent need for the generation of robust policies and frameworks concerning ecological, socio-cultural and economic sustainability, implemented through appropriately innovative legal mechanisms. The book is divided into five sub-themes of sustainability: history, principles and concepts; environmental rights; access to justice and liability issues; natural resources, energy and climate change; and nature conservation. It includes expert legal opinion on developments to date, engaging with key themes from a broad selection of jurisdictions and perspectives. The analyses extend across public and private law to reflect the manifold areas which are rightly and necessarily the concern of environmental and sustainability law. Its contents offer not only critiques of developments to date, but also constructive engagement with matters of pressing concern to all.

Written from a global perspective, this book will be an invaluable reference for academics, postgraduate students, practitioners and policy-makers concerned with environmental law and sustainability.

Contributors: J. Benidickson, A.H. Benjamin, B. Boer, M.N. Camargos, M.A. Cohen, J.A.F. Costa, A. Daibert, J. de Cendra de Larragán, A. de Garay Sánchez, F. de Salles Cavedon, J.W. Dellapenna, A. du Plessis, W. du Plessis, J.J. González, D. Hodas, E. Kasimbazi, R. Kibugi, F.R. Loures, N. Lugaresi, K. Morrow, C. Odidi Okidi, A. Paterson, N.A. Robinson, W. Scholtz, F. Sola, R. Stanziola Vieira, M.B. Tekle, S. Teles da Silva