Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South

Challenges for Implementation
Herausgeber: Junker, Kirk W; Farah, Paolo Davide

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the impact of globalization on international environmental law and the implementation of sustainable development in the Global South.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9780367749132
• ISBN-10: 0367749130
• Artikelnr.: 62267283

Autorenporträt

Kirk W. Junker is a University Professor of Law, Director of the Environmental Law Center, Board Chair of the International Master of Environmental Science Program, and Principal Investigator at the Global South Studies Centre at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is the editor of Environmental Law Across Cultures: Comparisons for Legal Practice (Routledge, 2020). Paolo Davide Farah is a tenured Associate Professor in the Eberly College of Arts & Sciences, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics at West Virginia University, U.S.A. He is Founder, President, and Director of gLAWcal-Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, U.K. He is the editor of China's Influence of Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law (Routledge, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; PART I The environment in the Global South during the
globalization of "sustainable development" 1 Managing environmental risks
in privately financed infrastructure projects in Nigeria; 2 The curse of
best practices: impact assessment in the context of the governance of
extractives in Mongolia; 3 Extra-territorial litigation remedies: a case
study of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Uganda; PART II Interfaces
between developed and developing countries in environmental law 4
Sustainable development through environmental federalism in the case of
Ethiopia; 5 Diversification of mono-economies: how legislation manages the
environmental impact of foreign investments in Nigeria; 6 Transformation of
sustainable development goals in regional international organizations:
vertical effects, contested indicators, and interlinkages for the formation
of environmental law; 7 The implementation of the Paris agreement through
tax law: examples from South Africa, India, China, and Brazil; PART III
Alternatives to globalization in environmental law 8 The contracting
state's role in the energy community to build the European Union's
envisioned sustainable future; 9 Global environmental governance: a
necessary pathway for sustainable development of Caribbean Small Island
Developing States; 10 Going beyond the law: the potential and limits of
public participation in the context of sustainable development; 11
Environmental hazards and human rights violations: the case of Presídio
Central Prison in Brazil; Conclusions: indicator species and the future of
environmental law