Environmental governance and sustainability / edited by Paul Martin ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Paul.

Series:

IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series.

IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental management--Law and legislation.

Environmental management.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This timely volume provides fascinating insights into emerging developments in the field of legal governance of the environment at a time when environmental governance is increasingly concerned with far more than legal doctrine. The expert contributors are concerned with the totality of arrangements through which power and resources are deployed to protect and restore natural resources, and how the costs and benefits of this are allocated. They explore key issues such as: how the community exercises its democratic rights; how government responds to the needs of current and future generations a

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Table of Cases; Table of legislation; Introduction: the scholarship of environmental governance; Part 1: The architectural design of environmental governance; 1: Instruments for environmental governance: what works?; 2: Dies (property) diversity beget (landscape) sustainability?; 3: Creating next generation rural landscape governance: the challenge for environmental law scholarship; Part 2: Governance innovation in China

4: Constitutionalism and the environment: the evolution of environmental governance in China's Socialist Market Economy5: Toward a more effective environmental criminal law in China; 6: A feasible approach to environmental public interest litigation: the people's procuratorate as plaintiff; 7: Environmental e-governance in China: insights from government-citizen interaction; Part 3: The intersection of economics and social justice around water laws; 8: Global climate disruption and water law reform in the United States; 9: The legal protection of Ramsar Wetlands: Australian reforms

10: Drinking water security in China: a critical justice issuePart 4: Linking local and international legal innovations; 11: The quest for a World Environment Organization: reflections on a failing debate as an input for future improvement; 12: Human rights law, refugee and migration law, and environmental law: exploring their contributions in the context of 'environmental migration'; 13: Climate change: legal impediments to technology transfer; 14: Implementing stewardship in Kenyan land use law: the case for a sustainability extension; Index

Notes:

pt. 1. The architectural design of environmental governance -- pt. 2. Governance innovation in China -- pt. 3. The intersection of economics and social justice around water laws -- pt. 4. Linking local and international legal innovations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49291-0

9786613588142

1-78100-048-4

OCLC:

779828540