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Courts and the Environment
Edited by Christina Voigt and Zen Makuch
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.
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- Published in print:
- 28 Dec 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781788114660
- eISBN:
- 9781788114677
- Pages:
- c 456
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- Courts and the Environment
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Courts and the Environment: An Introduction
- Chapter 1: The nature of courts
- Chapter 2: Bridging the gap between aspiration and outcomes: the role of the court in ensuring ecologically sustainable development
- Chapter 3: The legitimate role of rights-based approaches to environmental conflict resolution
- Chapter 4: Ghana’s courts and environmental rule of law
- Chapter 5: Activity of the Brazilian judiciary in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes aimed at combating global warming
- Chapter 6: Procedural and substantive innovations propounded by the Indian judiciary in balancing protection of environment anddevelopment: a legal analysis
- Chapter 7: Inviting civil society to the table: the case of the African Commission
- Chapter 8: Collective environmental litigation in Colombia: an empirical assessment
- Chapter 9: Are courts colour blind to country? Indigenous cultural heritage, environmental law and the Australian judicial system
- Chapter 10: What Chinese courts could learn from the USA: the approach of public interest litigation under the new China Environmental Protection Law
- Chapter 11: Protection of environmental rights of citizens in the courts of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 13: Enhancing corporate responsibilities to fulfil the right to a clean environment: a lesson learned from Indonesian courts
- Chapter 14: The Urgenda case: a successful example of public interest litigation for the protection of the environment?
- Chapter 15: US climate change adjudication: the epic journey from apetition for rulemaking to national greenhouse gas regulation
- Chapter 16: A review of environmental courts and tribunals for CSOs and the judiciary
- Chapter 17: Swedish environmental courts – specialized civil and administrative courts
- Index
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- 28 December 2018
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- Courts and the Environment
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Courts and the Environment: An Introduction
- Chapter 1: The nature of courts
- Chapter 2: Bridging the gap between aspiration and outcomes: the role of the court in ensuring ecologically sustainable development
- Chapter 3: The legitimate role of rights-based approaches to environmental conflict resolution
- Chapter 4: Ghana’s courts and environmental rule of law
- Chapter 5: Activity of the Brazilian judiciary in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes aimed at combating global warming
- Chapter 6: Procedural and substantive innovations propounded by the Indian judiciary in balancing protection of environment anddevelopment: a legal analysis
- Chapter 7: Inviting civil society to the table: the case of the African Commission
- Chapter 8: Collective environmental litigation in Colombia: an empirical assessment
- Chapter 9: Are courts colour blind to country? Indigenous cultural heritage, environmental law and the Australian judicial system
- Chapter 10: What Chinese courts could learn from the USA: the approach of public interest litigation under the new China Environmental Protection Law
- Chapter 11: Protection of environmental rights of citizens in the courts of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 13: Enhancing corporate responsibilities to fulfil the right to a clean environment: a lesson learned from Indonesian courts
- Chapter 14: The Urgenda case: a successful example of public interest litigation for the protection of the environment?
- Chapter 15: US climate change adjudication: the epic journey from apetition for rulemaking to national greenhouse gas regulation
- Chapter 16: A review of environmental courts and tribunals for CSOs and the judiciary
- Chapter 17: Swedish environmental courts – specialized civil and administrative courts
- Index