Environmental Governance and Sustainability

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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This timely volume provides fascinating insights into emerging developments in the field of legal governance of the environment at a time when environmental governance is increasingly concerned with far more than legal doctrine. The expert contributors are concerned with the totality of arrangements through which power and resources are deployed to protect and restore natural resources, and how the costs and benefits of this are allocated. They explore key issues such as: how the community exercises its democratic rights; how government responds to the needs of current and future generations and balances the interests of the powerful with the powerless; the freedoms and responsibilities of commerce and the holders of property; and the ways in which laws and policies are informed by science and other perspectives. The various ways in which legal scholarship is pivotal to good governance are thus highlighted, as is the extent of innovation being generated by current ecological, economic and social challenges. Clearly demonstrating the increasing breadth and depth of environmental law scholarship, this thought-provoking book will prove an invaluable reference tool for academics, students and researchers focusing on environmental law and development.Contributors: A. Brower, Z. Chen, J.W. Dellapenna, A. Du Plessis, M.G. Faure, A. Gardner, N. Goeteyn, M. Hong, K. Jian, A. Kennedy, K. Khoday, R. Kibugi, F. Maes, P. Martin, M. Morel, J. Page, T. Qin, H. Wang, J. Williams, Y. Yanjie, H. Zhang

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-02-29
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781781000472

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Edited by Paul Martin, Director of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law, University of New England, Australia, and co-chair of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Research Committee, Li Zhiping, Law School, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, Qin Tianbao, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China, Anél du Plessis, Law Faculty Trust Chair, Department of Mercantile Law, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Yves Le Bouthillier, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada and Angela Williams, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Sussex, UK

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’A unique publication that examines emerging and cutting-edge environmental issues from no less than seven countries including Africa and China. These issues are examined mainly from a trans-disciplinary environmental governance perspective that includes law, ecology, economics, policy and management. The contributors to the book include PhD candidates from Africa, Belgium and China. They are exceptional young scholars. They together with other contributors, who are distinguished environmental legal experts, have advanced the scholarship of environmental governance.’<

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Contents:Introduction: The Scholarship of Environmental GovernancePART I: THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE1. Instruments for Environmental Governance: What Works? Michael G. Faure2. Does (Property) Diversity Beget (Landscape) Sustainability?John Page and Ann Brower3. Creating Next Generation Rural Landscape Governance: The Challenge for Environmental Law ScholarshipPaul Martin, Jacqueline Williams and Amanda Kennedy PART II: GOVERNANCE INNOVATION IN CHINA4. Constitutionalism and the Environment: The Evolution of Environmental Governance in China’s Socialist Market EconomyKishan Khoday5. Toward a More Effective Environmental Criminal Law in ChinaMichael G. Faure and Hao Zhang6. A Feasible Approach to Environmental Public Interest Litigation: The People’s Procuratorate as PlaintiffMei Hong and Yin Yanjie 7. Environmental E-governance in China: Insights from Government-citizen InteractionQin Tianbao and Wang Huanhuan PART III: THE INTERSECTION OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AROUND WATER LAWS8. Global Climate Disruption and Water Law Reform in the United StatesJoseph W. Dellapenna9. The Legal Protection of Ramsar Wetlands: Australian ReformsAlex Gardner10. Drinking Water Security in China: A Critical Justice IssueKe JianPART IV: LINKING LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL INNOVATIONS11. The Quest for a World Environment Organization: Reflections on a Failing Debate as an Input for Future ImprovementNils Goeteyn and Frank Maes12. Human Rights Law, Refugee and Migration Law, and Environmental Law: Exploring their Contributions in the Context of ‘Environmental Migration’Michèle Morel13. Climate Change: Legal Impediments to Technology TransferZhou Chen14. Implementing Stewardship in Kenyan Land Use Law: The Case for a Sustainability ExtensionRobert KibugiIndex