Impact of Environmental Law
Impact of Environmental Law
Stories of the World We Want
Eisma-Osorio, Rose-Liza; Steinberg Albin, Jessica; Kirk, Elizabeth A.
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
12/2021
192
Mole
Inglês
9781803920122
15 a 20 dias
List of contributors vi
Foreword: Changing the Story by Antonio Oposa, Jr. viii
Acknowledgements x
1 Introduction: the need to rethink environmental laws 1
Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, Elizabeth A. Kirk and Jessica Steinberg Albin
2 Getting the lead out: the phase-out of gasoline lead additives - a global environmental success story 8
Robert V. Percival
3 Caring for our oceans and their biodiversity 30
Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
4 The Charter of the Forest: evolving human rights in nature 54
Nicholas A. Robinson
5 Implementation of obligations for wetland and waterfowl conservation under the Ramsar Convention: lessons and options at the Sakumo Lagoon, Ghana 75
David Estrin, Freedom-Kai Phillips and Theodore Nsoe
Adimazoya
6 Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in law and policy: prospects for transformative flood risk management in Australia 100
Anita Foerster
7 Public housing in Singapore: a success story in sustainable development 128
Lye Lin-Heng
8 A perfect storm: how China's Taizhou case marks the beginning of a new era of environmental enforcement 154
Amy Pickering and Yanmei Lin
Index 174
List of contributors vi
Foreword: Changing the Story by Antonio Oposa, Jr. viii
Acknowledgements x
1 Introduction: the need to rethink environmental laws 1
Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, Elizabeth A. Kirk and Jessica Steinberg Albin
2 Getting the lead out: the phase-out of gasoline lead additives - a global environmental success story 8
Robert V. Percival
3 Caring for our oceans and their biodiversity 30
Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
4 The Charter of the Forest: evolving human rights in nature 54
Nicholas A. Robinson
5 Implementation of obligations for wetland and waterfowl conservation under the Ramsar Convention: lessons and options at the Sakumo Lagoon, Ghana 75
David Estrin, Freedom-Kai Phillips and Theodore Nsoe
Adimazoya
6 Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in law and policy: prospects for transformative flood risk management in Australia 100
Anita Foerster
7 Public housing in Singapore: a success story in sustainable development 128
Lye Lin-Heng
8 A perfect storm: how China's Taizhou case marks the beginning of a new era of environmental enforcement 154
Amy Pickering and Yanmei Lin
Index 174