Impact of Environmental Law

Stories of the World We Want

AvRose-Liza Eisma-Osorio,Elizabeth A. Kirk

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series

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Beskrivning

This cutting-edge book invites readers to rethink environmental law and its critical role in ensuring a sustainable future for all. Featuring international narratives, it demonstrates how environmental law can be a potent tool to secure multi-actor engagement, to improve ocean governance and to usher in effective policy reforms.Contributors illustrate narratives of successful historic and contemporary developments in environmental law, setting out innovative approaches to issues such as environmental enforcement and monitoring, effective forest protection, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Drawing out key lessons and practices for effective reform, this insightful book highlights opportunities by which we can respond to the acute environmental challenges facing the planet.Bringing together perspectives from both established and up-and-coming scholars, this book will be of interest to academics and students of environmental law, as well as researchers of environmental management. Policy makers and practitioners will also find inspiration in fruitful stories of environmental law and policy reform.Contributors include: T.N. Adimazoya, T. Daya-Winterbottom, R.-L. Eisma-Osorio, D. Estrin, A. Foerster, L.L. Heng, E.A. Kirk, Y. Lin, R.V. Percival, F.-K. Phillips, A. Pickering, N. Robinson, J. Steinberg-Albin

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-18
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:9781839106927

Utforska kategorier

Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Folkrätt inom Juridik
Miljörätt inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Edited by Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, University of Cebu, Philippines, Elizabeth A. Kirk, Professor Emerita, School of Law, University of Lincoln, UK and Jessica Steinberg Albin, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University, US

Recensioner i media

'This uplifting compilation of environmental law success stories from all over the world offers hope, guidance, and inspiration - a welcome antidote to the paralyzing despair that pervades so many conversations about our increasingly damaged planet.'--Carmen G. Gonzalez, Seattle University School of Law, US

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:List of contributors viForeword: Changing the Story by Antonio Oposa, Jr. viiiAcknowledgements x1 Introduction: the need to rethink environmental laws 1Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, Elizabeth A. Kirk and Jessica Steinberg Albin2 Getting the lead out: the phase-out of gasoline lead additives – a global environmental success story 8Robert V. Percival3 Caring for our oceans and their biodiversity 30Trevor Daya-Winterbottom4 The Charter of the Forest: evolving human rights in nature 54Nicholas A. Robinson5 Implementation of obligations for wetland and waterfowl conservation under the Ramsar Convention: lessons and options at the Sakumo Lagoon, Ghana 75David Estrin, Freedom-Kai Phillips and Theodore Nsoe Adimazoya6 Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in law and policy: prospects for transformative flood risk management in Australia 100Anita Foerster7 Public housing in Singapore: a success story in sustainable development 128Lye Lin-Heng8 A perfect storm: how China’s Taizhou case marks the beginning of a new era of environmental enforcement 154Amy Pickering and Yanmei LinIndex 174