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Regional environmental law : transregional comparative lessons in pursuit of sustainable development / edited by Werner Scholtz, Jonathan Verschuuren.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New horizons in environmental and energy law.
- New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (458 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The core focus of this timely volume is to ascertain how regional environmental law may contribute to the pursuit of global sustainable development. Leading scholars critically analyze the ways in which states may pool sovereignty to find solutions to environmental problems, presenting a comparative legal analysis of the manner in which the AU, EU, OAS and ASEAN deal with the issues of climate change, human rights and the environment.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; PART I The African Union (AU); 2. Introduction to regional environmental law of the African Union; 3. Africa and climate change: legal perspectives from the AU; 4. Sustainable development of SADC's watercourses: the IncoMaputo River Basin Agreement of 2002; 5. Human rights and the environment in the African Union context; PART II The Organization of American States (OAS); 6. Introduction to environmental law in the Americas; 7. The contribution of the Inter-American human rights system to sustainable development
- 8. Sustainable water resource management and the Amazon basinPART III Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); 9. Introduction to ASEAN regional environmental law; 10. ASEAN: the Singapore Declaration on Climate Change, Energy and the Environment, 2007 and beyond; PART IV European Union (EU) law; 11. Introduction to European Union environmental law; 12. EU climate change law: a credible example?; 13. Contribution of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights to sustainable development in Europe
- 14. A comparative analysis of the legal frameworks that govern Europe's transboundary watersIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78195-178-0
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