Environmental Law and Governance in the Pacific

Climate Change, Biodiversity and Communities
Herausgeber: Wewerinke-Singh, Margaretha; Hamman, Evan

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines environmental law and governance in the Pacific, focusing on the emerging challenges this region faces. The Pacific is home to some of the world's most astonishing biological and cultural diversity. At the same time, Pacific Island nations are economically and technically under-resourced in the face of tremendous environmental challenges. Destructive weather events, ocean acidification, mining, logging, overfishing, and pollution increasingly degrade ecosystems and affect fishing, farming, and other cultural practices of Pacific Islanders. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to understand and analyse the role of law and governance in responding to these pressures in the Pacific. Drawing on academic and practitioner expertise from the Pacific region, as well as Europe and the United States, this unique collection navigates the major environmental law and governance challenges of the present and future of the Pacific. Environmental Law and Governance in the Pacific discusses 21 Pacific Island countries and territories, including Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Samoa, and a broad range of themes, such as deep-sea mining, wetlands and mangroves, heritage, endangered species, human rights, and access to justice, are addressed, thus providing a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of environmental law and governance within specific jurisdictions as well as across the Pacific region as a whole. This volume will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in environmental law and governance in the Pacific region, as well as policy-makers, practitioners and NGOs involved in the development and implementation of environmental law and policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9780367203245
• ISBN-10: 0367203243
• Artikelnr.: 59984334

Autorenporträt

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at the University of the South Pacific. Evan Hamman is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Overview and Context 1. Introduction 2. Environmental Law in the
Context of Legal Pluralism Part 2 Climate Change 3. Climate Change Law in
the Pacific Islands 4. Traditional Customary Law Responding to Climate
Change 5. Customary Land in Pacific Island Countries: Laws and Threats
Part 3 Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management 6. The International
Institutional Framework for Seabird Conservation in the South Pacific 7.
Endangered and Invasive Species: Pacific Island Legal Responses to Complex
Environmental Challenges 8. Mining in the Pacific: Principles and Practices
for Environmental Regulation 9. Wetlands of the Pacific: Towards Effective
Law and Governance Part 4 Communities 10. Heritage Law in Pacific Island
States: the Legacies of Colonialism and the Elusive Possibilities of
Cultural Emancipation 11. Human Rights and the Environment in Pacific
Island States 12. Access to Environmental Justice for Pacific Islanders