The transformation of environmental law and governance [electronic resource] : risk, innovation and resilience / edited by Francesco Sindico (Reader, International Environmental Law and Co-Director), Stephanie Switzer (Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK) and Qin Tianbao (Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China).
"This cutting-edge book considers the functional inseparability of risk and innovation within the context of environmental law and governance. Analysing both 'hard' and 'soft' innovation, the book argues that approaches to socio-ecological risk require innovation in order fo...
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2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Part I: Introduction
- 1. Risk, innovation and resilience: Moving towards mutual supportiveness / Francesco Sindico, Stephanie Switzer and Qin Tianbao
- Part II: Innovation
- 2. Fracking and environmental law for sustainability: An era of global ecological risks and the imperative of legal transformations / Patryck de Araújo Ayala and Mariana Carvalho Victor Coelho
- Part III: Risk
- 3. Innovating societal response to radiation risk: Insights from the fukushima safecast case / Anna Berti Suman
- 4. Drug pollution from manufacturing, antimicrobial resistance and the importation of pharmaceutical active ingredients from third countries. The European drug safety regime under scrutiny: Key legal and institutional aspects, challenges and opportunities / Elodie Le Gal
- Part IV: Resilience
- 5. Evaluating community resilience in promoting ecological and social justice in groundwater governance: Lessons from India / Stellina Jolly
- 6. Strengthening the role of traditional leaders for effective local community participation in environmental management in malawi / Gift Dorothy Makanje
- Part V: Climate change
- 7. Integrating climate change into impact assessments: Key design elements / Meinhard Doelle
- 8. 'Innovation' and the law in state reports on climate change action / He Xiangbai and Alexander Zahar
- 9. Climate change law and colonialism: The rights of nature and a hypothetical case for bison person in Canada / Laura S. Lynes
- Part VI: Energy
- 10. Community renewable energy for sustainable development / Richard Ottinger, Tom Bourgeois, Robert Habermann and Achinthi Vithanage
- Part VII: Freshwater
- 11. The construction of the três marias dam and the absence of public policies for the arrival of the waters in the municipality of morada nova de minas in brazil / Mônica Thaís Souza Ribeiro, Izabela Zanotelli Collares and Danuta R. N. de Souza Calazans
- Part VIIi biodiversity and traditional knowledge and land, food and agriculture
- 12. Blockchain technology for food security? Resilience potential and risk identification for the multilateral system of the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture / Thomas Gils and Christine Frison
- 13. Synthetic biology and international environmental law: Time to move from definition to regulation / David Leary
- Part IX: Oceans
- 14. Climate proofing ocean governance: A journey through unchartered waters / Simone Borg
- Part X: Human rights
- 15. A new frontier in human rights law: The proposed third international covenant on the right of human beings to the environment / Michel Prieur and Mohamed Ali Mekouar
- Part Xi litigation
- 16. Resilience and access to climate justice / Morgan Eleanor Harris
- Index.