Research handbook on law, environment and the global south. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Philippe Cullet (Professor of International and Environmental Law, SOAS University of London, UK and Senior Visiting Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India), Sujith Koonan (Assistant Professor, Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India).
• Editors: Cullet, Philippe; Koonan, Sujith
• Other Names: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
• Contents: Introduction to the research handbook on law, environment and the global south / Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan -- Part I: Questioning the concepts of development and sustainability -- 1: Intergenerational justice, water rights, and climate change / Upendra Baxi -- 2: Justice, development and sustainability in the anthropocene / Sam Adelman -- 3: Neoliberalism, law and nature / Larry Lohmann -- 4: Radical well-being alternatives to development / Ashish Kothari -- Part II: Environmental rights, environmental justice and access to remedies -- 5: Environmental rights in the global south / Louis J. Kotzé and Evadne Grant -- North-south transboundary movement of hazardous wastes -- the basel ban and environmental justice / Julia Dehm and Adil Hasan Khan -- 7: The bhopal case: retrospect and prospect / Usha Ramanathan -- Part III: Land use, acquisition and dispossession -- 8: Land rights, poverty, and livelihoods: the case of Ethiopia / Brightman Gebremichael -- 9: Wildlife conservation and land rights in Kenya: competing or complementary agendas? / Patricia Kameri-Mbote -- 10 land-grabs and dispossession in India: laws of value / Preeti Sampat -- Part IV: Forests: a contested resource or commodity -- 11: Environmental impact assessment in the context of mangrove forest ecosystem management in Bangladesh: a case study of rampal coal power plant project / Jona Razzaque -- 12: Forests, people and poverty: failing to reform the global development paradigm / Feja Lesniewska -- 13: Access to and control over forest resources -- the case of the forest rights act, 2006 in India / Shankar Gopalakrishnan -- Part V: Indigenous peoples: resource use, conservation, livelihoods and rights -- 14: Forest rights and tribals in mineral rich areas of India: the vedanta case and beyond / Geetanjoy Sahu -- 15: Conservation and livelihoods: conflicts or convergence? / CR Bijoy -- Part VI: Energy and the environment -- 16: International energy policy for development: human rights and sustainable development law imperatives / Thoko Kaime -- 17: Nuclear energy and liability: an environmental perspective / Saurabh Bhattacharjee -- Part VII: Water: Privatisation, development and human rights -- 18: Realisation of the right to water: lessons from South Africa / Michael Kidd -- 19: Dams and displacement: The case of the sardar sarovar project, India / Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly -- 20: Wastewater reuse in irrigated agriculture in urban and peri-urban India: a farmers' rights perspective / Lovleen Bhullar -- Part VIIi commercial and industrial use of resources and equity -- 21: Mining, development and environment in India / Felix Padel and Malvika Gupta -- 22: Environment impact assessment in India: contestations over regulating development / Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli -- 23: The informal waste sector: 'surplus' labour, detritus, and the right to the post-colonial city / Kaveri Gill -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 490 pages)
• Subjects: 344.04/6; Environmental law; Environmental ethics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784717469; 1784717460
• Related ISBNs: 1784717452; 9781784717452
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 02, 2019).
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