Overview
This 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
Full Product Details
Author: Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio ,
Elizabeth A. Kirk ,
Jessica Steinberg Albin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.438kg
ISBN: 9781839106927
ISBN 10: 1839106921
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 18 May 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
'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
'This volume presents an illuminating collection of case studies in environmental law and governance that could provide valuable inspiration to jurisdictions across the world.' -- Daria Shapovalova, Edinburgh Law 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
Author Information
Edited by Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, University of Cebu, Philippines, Elizabeth A. Kirk, Professor Emerita, School of Law, University of Lincoln, UK and Jessica Steinberg Albin, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University, US
