Environmental Law and Governance in the Pacific (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines environmental law and governance in the Pacific, focussing on the emerging challenges this region faces. Fourteen Pacific Island countries, and a broad range of themes, such as deep-sea mining, fisheries, protected areas, heritage, endangered species, human rights and access to justice, are addressed in the volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429523014
• Artikelnr.: 59951268

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