Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global South

Edited by Philippe Cullet, Professor of International and Environmental Law, SOAS University of London, UK and Senior Visiting Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and Sujith Koonan, Assistant Professor, Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India

‘The book is a timely and essential contribution to the literature on environment policy, due in no small part to its insistence on speaking with the voice of the Global South on such matters, in a way that often conflicts with prevailing narratives from forces of globalization and neoliberalism, and on challenging the premise of sustainable development and unlimited growth.’

• Contents:Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the GlobalSouth xviPhilippe Cullet and Sujith KoonanPART I QUESTIONING THE CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT ANDSUSTAINABILITY1 Intergenerational justice, water rights, and climate change 2Upendra Baxi2 Justice, development and sustainability in the Anthropocene 14Sam Adelman3 Neoliberalism, law and nature 32Larry Lohmann4 Radical well-being alternatives to development 64Ashish KothariPART II ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEAND ACCESS TO REMEDIES5 Environmental rights in the Global South 86Louis J. Kotzé and Evadne Grant6 North-South transboundary movement of hazardous wastes – the Basel Banand environmental justice 109Julia Dehm and Adil Hasan Khan7 The Bhopal case: retrospect and prospect 138Usha RamanathanPART III LAND USE, ACQUISITION AND DISPOSSESSION8 Land rights, poverty, and livelihoods: the case of Ethiopia 147Brightman Gebremichael9 Wildlife conservation and land rights in Kenya: competing orcomplementary agendas? 169Patricia Kameri-Mbote10 Land-grabs and dispossession in India: laws of value 190Preeti SampatPART IV FORESTS: A CONTESTED RESOURCE OR COMMODITY11 Environmental impact assessment in the context of mangrove forestecosystem management in Bangladesh: a case study of Rampal coalpower plant project 207Jona Razzaque12 Forests, people and poverty: failing to reform the global developmentparadigm 231Feja Lesniewska13 Access to and control over forest resources – the case of the ForestRights Act, 2006 in India 249Shankar GopalakrishnanPART V INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: RESOURCE USE, CONSERVATION,LIVELIHOODS AND RIGHTS14 Forest rights and tribals in mineral rich areas of India: the Vedanta caseand beyond 272Geetanjoy Sahu15 Conservation and livelihoods: conflicts or convergence? 286CR BijoyPART VI ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT16 International energy policy for development: human rights and sustainabledevelopment law imperatives 305Thoko Kaime17 Nuclear energy and liability: an environmental perspective 322Saurabh BhattacharjeePART VII WATER: PRIVATISATION, DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANRIGHTS18 Realisation of the right to water: lessons from South Africa 348Michael Kidd19 Dams and displacement: the case of the Sardar Sarovar Project, India 371Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly20 Wastewater reuse in irrigated agriculture in urban and peri-urban India:a farmers’ rights perspective 396Lovleen BhullarPART VIII COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USE OF RESOURCESAND EQUITY21 Mining, development and environment in India 413Felix Padel and Malvika Gupta22 Environment impact assessment in India: contestations over regulatingdevelopment 435Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli23 The informal waste sector: ‘surplus’ labour, detritus, and the right to thepost-colonial city 452Kaveri GillIndex 477