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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge book invites readers to rethink environmental law and its critical role in ensuring a sustainable future for all. Featuring international narratives, it demonstrates how environmental law can be a potent tool to secure multi-actor engagement, to improve ocean governance and to usher in effective policy reforms.
Contributors illustrate narratives of successful historic and contemporary developments in environmental law, setting out innovative approaches to issues such as environmental enforcement and monitoring, effective forest protection, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Drawing out key lessons and practices for effective reform, this insightful book highlights opportunities by which we can respond to the acute environmental challenges facing the planet.
Bringing together perspectives from both established and up-and-coming scholars, this book will be of interest to academics and students of environmental law, as well as researchers of environmental management. Policy makers and practitioners will also find inspiration in fruitful stories of environmental law and policy reform.
Contributors include: T.N. Adimazoya, T. Daya-Winterbottom, R.-L. Eisma-Osorio, D. Estrin, A. Foerster, L.L. Heng, E.A. Kirk, Y. Lin, R.V. Percival, F.-K. Phillips, A. Pickering, N. Robinson, J. Steinberg-Albin
Trade Review'This uplifting compilation of environmental law success stories from all over the world offers hope, guidance, and inspiration - a welcome antidote to the paralyzing despair that pervades so many conversations about our increasingly damaged planet.' --Carmen G. Gonzalez, Seattle University School of Law, US
Table of ContentsContents: List of contributors vi Foreword: Changing the Story by Antonio Oposa, Jr. viii Acknowledgements x 1 Introduction: the need to rethink environmental laws 1 Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, Elizabeth A. Kirk and Jessica Steinberg Albin 2 Getting the lead out: the phase-out of gasoline lead additives – a global environmental success story 8 Robert V. Percival 3 Caring for our oceans and their biodiversity 30 Trevor Daya-Winterbottom 4 The Charter of the Forest: evolving human rights in nature 54 Nicholas A. Robinson 5 Implementation of obligations for wetland and waterfowl conservation under the Ramsar Convention: lessons and options at the Sakumo Lagoon, Ghana 75 David Estrin, Freedom-Kai Phillips and Theodore Nsoe Adimazoya 6 Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in law and policy: prospects for transformative flood risk management in Australia 100 Anita Foerster 7 Public housing in Singapore: a success story in sustainable development 128 Lye Lin-Heng 8 A perfect storm: how China’s Taizhou case marks the beginning of a new era of environmental enforcement 154 Amy Pickering and Yanmei Lin Index 174
