Environmental law and sustainability after Rio
By: edited by Jamie Benidickson ... [et al.].
Series: IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series; IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780857932242
Subjects: International Environmental law; Law and legislation; Environmental policy; Sustainable development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reflecting on Rio : Environmental Law in the Coming Decades  -- Nicholas A. Robinson; title: Capacity Building in Environmental Law in African Universities  -- Charles Odidi Okidi; title: Local Agenda 21 : A Rights-based Approach to Local Environmental Governance  -- Anél du Plessis; title: Brazilian Socioambientalismo and Environmental Justice  -- Fernanda de Salles Cavedon and Ricardo Stanziola Viera; title: Risk Society and the Precautionary Principle  -- Miriam Alfie Cohen and Adrian de Garay Sánchez; title: Measuring the Environment through Public Procurement  -- Nicola Lugaresi; title: A Sustainable and Equitable Legal Order  -- Werner Scholtz; title: The Courts and Public Participation in Environmental Decisionmaking  -- Karen Morrow; title: Enchanced Access to Environmental Justice in Kenya  -- Robert Kibugi; title: Towards a New Theory of Environmental Liability Without Proof of Damage  -- José Juan González; title: Diffuse Damages in Environmental Torts in Brazil  -- Arlindo Daibert; title: Transboundary Aquifers : Towards Substantive and Process Reform in Treaty-making  -- Joseph W. Dellapenna and Flavia Rocha Loures; title: Achieving Sustainability : Plant Breeders' and Farmers' Rights  -- Mekete Bekele Tekle; title: International Law and Sustainable Energy : A Portrait of Failure  -- David Hodas; title: Cross-border Gas Pipelines and Sustainability in Southern Africa  -- Willemien du Plessis; title: Is EU Climate Change Policy Legally Robust?  -- Javier de Cendra de Larragan; title: Combating Climate Change in Uganda  -- Emmanuel Kasimbazi; title: Contractual Tools for Implementing the CBD in South Africa  -- Alexander Paterson; title: Mangrove Swamps and Sustainability  -- Marcelo Nogueira Camargos and Solange Teles da Silva; title: The Amazonian Treaty and Harmonisation of Environmental Legislation -- José Augusto Fontoura Costa, Solange Teles da Silva, and Fernanda Sola.