Environmental Governance and Sustainability

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

’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.’<

• 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