Courts and the environment

by Makuch, Zen Voigt, Christina

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Title Statements

Full title :Courts and the environment / edited by Christina Voigt (Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway), and Zen Makuch (Director, Sustainable Transitions, Imperial College London, UK and Barrister).

Summary

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 practices and case law across global domestic courts as varied as the National Green Tribunal in India, the Land and Environment Court in Australia, and the District Court of The Hague in the Netherlands, the expert contributors bring together a wealth of knowledge in order to enhance mutual learning and understanding towards an environmental rule of law. In doing so, they illustrate that courts play a vital role in the formation and crystallization of rulings and decisions to protect and conserve the environment. Ultimately, they prove that there are many lessons to be learnt from other legal systems in seeking to maintain and enhance the environmental rule of law. Contemporary and global in scope, Courts and the Environment is essential reading for scholars and students of environmental law, as well as judges, legal practitioners and policymakers interested in understanding the legal challenges to and the legal basis for protecting environmental values in courts.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edward Elgar Pub
Place of Publication:Northampton, MA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (456 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781788114677, 1788114671, 9781788114660, 1788114663
oclc:on1170699664
LC Classification:K3585.4

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 Ang…