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Author Martin, Paul

Title Environmental Governance and Sustainability
Published Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (360 pages)
Series The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Series
IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Environmental law.
Environmental law, International.
LAW -- Environmental.
Environmental law.
Environmental law, International.
Form Electronic book
Author Li, Zhiping
Qin, Tianbao
ISBN 9781781000489
1781000484
1781000476
9781781000472