Courts and the environment /
This discerning book examines the challenges, opportunities and solutions for courts adjudicating on environmental cases. It offers a critical analysis of the practice and judgments of courts from various representative and influential jurisdictions. Through the analysis and comparison of court prac...
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Cheltenham :
Edward Elgar Publishing,
2018
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| Edice: | IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
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Courts and the environment |
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- Part I Conceptualizing the role of courts in protecting the environment
- 1. The nature of courts / Nicholas Robinson
- 2. Bridging the gap between aspiration and outcomes: the role of the court in ensuring ecologically sustainable development / Brian Preston, Paul Martin and Amanda Kennedy
- 3. The legitimate role of rights-based approaches to environmental conflict resolution / Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
- Part II Taking the lead: the court as trailblazer for environmental protection
- 4. Ghana's courts and environmental rule of law / Godwin E. K. Dzah
- 5. Activities of the Brazilian judiciary aimed at combating global warming in the Amazon and Cerrado Biomes / Heline Sivini Ferreira, Diogo Andreola Serraglio and Rullyan Levi Maganhati Mendes
- 6. Procedural and substantive innovations propounded by the Indian judiciary in balancing the protection of environment and development: a legal analysis / Stellina Jolly and Zen Makuch
- -Part III Access to justice for the environment
- 7. Inviting civil society to the table: the case of the African commission / Nora Ho Tu Nam
- 8. Collective environmental litigation in Colombia: an empirical assessment / Everaldo Lamprea and Angela M. Páez
- 9. Are courts colour blind to country?: indigenous cultural heritage, environmental law and the Australian judicial system / Lauren Butterly and Rachel Pepper
- 10. What Chinese courts could learn from the U.S.A.: the approach of public interest litigation under the new China environmental protection law / Zhuoxian Zhang
- 11. Protection of environmental rights of citizens in the courts of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine / Oleksandra Chornous and Nicolay Kichigin
- Part IV Courts in action
- 12. The challenge of bringing transnational corporations to justice for environmental damage: a case study of Texaco Oil Company and Chevron vs Lago Agrio plaintiffs / María Augusta León Moreta and Gloria Bingyu Liu
- -13. Enhancing corporate responsibilities to fulfill the right to a clean environment: lessons learned from Indonesian courts / Yetty Komalasari Dewi and Anbar Jayadi
- 14. The Urgenda case: a successful example of public interest litigation for the protection of the environment? / Otto Spijkers
- 15. U.S.A. climate change adjudication: the epic journey from a petition for rulemaking to national greenhouse gas regulation / David Hodas
- 16. A review of environmental courts and tribunals for civil society organisations and the judiciary / Ria Guidone and Holly Jonas
- 17. Swedish environmental courts - specialized civil and administrative courts / Anders Bengtsson
- Index.