Courts and the environment / edited by Christina Voigt (Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway); Zen Makuch (Director, Sustainable Transitions, Imperial College London, UK; Barrister).
"This...book examines the challenges, opportunities and solutions for courts adjudicating on environmental cases. It offers an...analysis of the practice and judgments of courts from various representative and influential jurisdictions. Through the analysis and comparison of court practices and...
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA :
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,
[2018]
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| Series: | IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series.
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Table of Contents:
- The nature of courts / Nicholas Robinson
- Bridging the gap between aspiration and outcomes: the role of the court in ensuring ecologically sustainable development / Brian Preston, Paul Martin and Amanda Kennedy
- The legitimate role of rights-based approaches to environmental conflict resolution / Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
- Ghana's courts and environmental rule of law / Godwin E. K. Dzah
- 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
- 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
- Inviting civil society to the table : the case of the African commission / Nora Ho Tu Nam
- Collective environmental litigation in Colombia: an empirical assessment / Everaldo Lamprea and Angela M. Páez
- Are courts colour blind to country? : indigenous cultural heritage, environmental law and the Australian judicial system / Lauren Butterly and Rachel Pepper
- 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
- Protection of environmental rights of citizens in the courts of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine / Oleksandra Chornous and Nicolay Kichigin
- 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
- Enhancing corporate responsibilities to fulfill the right to a clean environment: lessons learned from Indonesian courts / Yetty Komalasari Dewi and Anbar Jayadi
- The Urgenda case: a successful example of public interest litigation for the protection of the environment? / Otto Spijkers
- U.S.A. climate change adjudication : the epic journey from a petition for rulemaking to national greenhouse gas regulation / David Hodas
- A review of environmental courts and tribunals for civil society organisations and the judiciary / Ria Guidone and Holly Jonas
- Swedish environmental courts : specialized civil and administrative courts / Anders Bengtsson.