Access to environmental justice : a comparative study / edited by Andrew Harding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harding, Andrew, 1950-

Series:

London-Leiden series on law, administration, and development ; v. 11.

London-leiden series on law, administration and development ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law.

Environmental justice.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although it is commonly asserted that enhanced citizen participation results in better environmental policy and improved enforcement of environmental standards, this hypothesis has rarely been subject to testing on a comparative basis. The contributors to this book set out to study the extent to which citizens can and do exert influence over their urban environments through the legal (and extra-legal) 'gateways' in eleven countries spanning several continents as well as different climates, levels and type of economic development, and national legal and constitutional systems, as well as exhibiting a different set of environmental problems. One interviewee questioned about access to environmental justice, dryly remarked that in his city there was no environment, no justice and no access to either. Yet this view, as will be seen, requires to be nuanced. While few people will be surprised by the finding that legal gateways to environmental justice are largely ineffective, the reasons for this are revealing; but also the richness of detail and the comparisons between the different countries, and also the positive aspects which surfaced in several instances, were indeed both encouraging and sometimes surprising. This book presents the first comparative survey of access to environmental justice, and will be of considerable use to lawyers, policy-makers, activists and scholars who are concerned with the environmental issues which so profoundly affect and afflict our habitat and conditions of social justice throughout the world.

Contents:

Access to environmental justice : some introductory perspectives / Andrew Harding

Access to environmental justice in Ghana (Accra) / James S. Read

Access to environmental justice in India's Garden City (Bangalore) / Amanda Perry-Kessaris

Access to environmental justice in Indonesia / Adriaan Bedner

Access to environmental justice in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) / Andrew Harding and Azmi Sharom

Access to Environmental justice in a politically unstable environment : a case study of Nepal / Surya Subedi

Access to environmental justice : Karachi's urban poor and the law / Martin Lau

Towards a greener China? : accessing environmental justice in the People's Republic of China / Michael Palmer

Access to environmental justice in the South West Pacific / Nicola Pain

Access to environmental justice and public participation in Thailand / Thawilwadee Bureekul

Access to environmental justice in United Kingdom law / Jean-Jacques Paradissis and Michael Purdue

Access to environmental justice in the United States : embracing environmental and social concerns to achieve environmental justice / J. Mijin Cha.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-281-92635-3

9786611926359

90-474-2045-4

OCLC:

646789551

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004157835.i-380 DOI