Environmental Law and Sustainability after RioPDF电子书下载

1. Introduction： environmental law and sustainability after Rio Jamie Benidickson， Ben Boer， Antonio Herman Benjamin and Karen Morrow 1

PART ONE HISTORY， PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF SUSTAINABILITY 9

2. Reflecting on Rio： environmental law in the coming decades&Nicholas A. Robinson 9

3. Capacity building in environmental law in African universities&Charles Odidi Okidi 31

4. Local Agenda 21： a rights-based approach to local environmental governance&Anel du Plessis 47

5. Brazilian ‘socioambientalismo’ and environmental justice&Fernanda de Salles Cavedon and Ricardo Stanziola Vieira 66

6. Risk society and the precautionary principle&Miriam Alfie Cohen and Adridn de Garay Sdnchez 84

7. Measuring the environment through public procurement&Nicola Lugaresi 101

PART TWO ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS， ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND LIABILITY ISSUES 119

8. A sustainable and equitable legal order&Werner Scholtz 119

9. The courts and public participation in environmental decision-making&Karen Morrow 138

10. Enhanced access to environmental justice in Kenya&Robert Kibugi 158

11. Towards a new theory of environmental liability without proof of damage&Jose Juan Gonzalez 178

12. Diffuse damages in environmental torts in Brazil&Arlindo Daibert 196

PART THREE NATURAL RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY 217

13. Transboundary aquifers： towards substantive and process reform in treaty-making&Joseph W. Dellapenna and Flavia Rocha Loures 217

14. Achieving sustainability： plant breeders’ and farmers’ rights&Mekete Bekele Tekle 235

PART FOUR ENERGY， CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY 257

15. International law and sustainable energy： a portrait of failure&David Hodas 257

16. Cross-border gas pipelines and sustainability in southern Africa&Willemien du Plessis 279

17. Is EU climate change policy legally robust？&Javier de Cendra de Larragdn 297

18. Combating climate change in Uganda&Emmanuel Kasimbazi 318

PART FIVE NATURE CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY 341

19. Contractual tools for implementing the CBD in South Africa&Alexander Paterson 341

20. Mangrove swamps and sustainability&Marcelo Nogueira Camargos and Solange Teles da Silva 367

21. The Amazonian Treaty and harmonisation of environmental legislation&Jose Augusto Fontoura Costa， Solange Teles da Silva and Fernanda Sola 377

Index 395