Courts and the environment, edited by Christina Voigt (Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway), and Zen Makuch (Director, Sustainable Transitions, Imperial College London, UK and Barrister), (electronic resource)

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Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Pub., 2018

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Contents: Contents: Part I Conceptualizing the role of courts in protecting the environment -- 1. The nature of courts / Nicholas Robinson -- 2. Bridging the gap between aspiration and outcomes: the role of the court in ensuring ecologically sustainable development / Brian Preston, Paul Martin and Amanda Kennedy -- 3. The legitimate role of rights-based approaches to environmental conflict resolution / Trevor Daya-Winterbottom -- Part II Taking the lead: the court as trailblazer for environmental protection -- 4. Ghana's courts and environmental rule of law / Godwin E. K. Dzah -- 5. Activities of the Brazilian judiciary aimed at combating global warming in the Amazon and Cerrado Biomes / Heline Sivini Ferreira, Diogo Andreola Serraglio and Rullyan Levi Maganhati Mendes -- 6. Procedural and substantive innovations propounded by the Indian judiciary in balancing the protection of environment and development: a legal analysis / Stellina Jolly and Zen Makuch -- Part III Access to justice for the environment -- 7. Inviting civil society to the table: the case of the African commission / Nora Ho Tu Nam -- 8. Collective environmental litigation in Colombia: an empirical assessment / Everaldo Lamprea and Angela M. Páez -- 9. Are courts colour blind to country?: indigenous cultural heritage, environmental law and the Australian judicial system / Lauren Butterly and Rachel Pepper -- 10. What Chinese courts could learn from the U.S.A.: the approach of public interest litigation under the new China environmental protection law / Zhuoxian Zhang -- 11. Protection of environmental rights of citizens in the courts of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine / Oleksandra Chornous and Nicolay Kichigin -- Part IV Courts in action -- 12. The challenge of bringing transnational corporations to justice for environmental damage: a case study of Texaco Oil Company and Chevron vs Lago Agrio plaintiffs / María Augusta León Moreta and Gloria Bingyu Liu -- 13. Enhancing corporate responsibilities to fulfill the right to a clean environment: lessons learned from Indonesian courts / Yetty Komalasari Dewi and Anbar Jayadi -- 14. The Urgenda case: a successful example of public interest litigation for the protection of the environment? / Otto Spijkers -- 15. U.S.A. climate change adjudication: the epic journey from a petition for rulemaking to national greenhouse gas regulation / David Hodas -- 16. A review of environmental courts and tribunals for civil society organisations and the judiciary / Ria Guidone and Holly Jonas -- 17. Swedish environmental courts - specialized civil and administrative courts / Anders Bengtsson -- Index

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