The Future of Environmental Law

Ambition and Reality

Stefan E. Weishaar, Kars J. de Graaf (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-5830-4 (ISBN)

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Environmental law is evolving from negotiating and prescribing environmental policies to enforcing time-bound, measurable and achievable goals in order to secure a sustainable future. This pertinent and thought-provoking book analyzes the legal instruments that have been successful in working towards requisite targets for ecological sustainability.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars, this insightful book discusses the future challenges and innovative applications of environmental law to assist in achieving sustainability goals in an efficient and timely manner. Chapters focus on topics such as the role of international environmental law in the interpretation of human rights, the legal dimension of sustainability, and the proliferation of offshore renewable energy in European seas. The book concludes by analyzing some key international case studies, including the issue of salinization from a legal perspective in the Netherlands, and the relevance of groundwater for the development of the Brazilian semiarid region.

Providing a comparative environmental law outlook which is both ambitious and realistic, this book will be essential reading for students, scholars, and researchers in environmental law, public international law, responsible consumption, and sustainable cities and communities. This book will also be of interest to policy makers and government officials working towards the sustainable development goals.

Edited by Stefan E. Weishaar, Professor of Law and Economics and Kars J. de Graaf, Professor of Public Law and Sustainability, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Contents:

1 Introduction to The Future of Environmental Law 1
Kars J. de Graaf and Stefan E. Weishaar

PART I THE PROFOUND ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
2 Governing the ocean in the Anthropocene era: area-based
management as a tool to promote the socialisation of the
law of the sea 14
Vonintsoa Rafaly
3 An insufficient tool for sustainable development:
limitations of systemic integration under Article 31(3)(c)
of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 30
Kazuki Hagiwara
4 The role of principles of international environmental law
in greening the interpretation of human rights: the case of
the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 49
Megan Donald

PART II LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY
5 The legal dimension of sustainability 66
José Juan González Márquez
6 Sustainable management: political slogan or legal norm? 85
Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
7 In doubt when in favour of nature? Taking science
seriously in the Anthropocene epoch 104
Mariana Coelho and Patryck Ayala
8 The principle of reparation: why the polluter-pays
principle does not suffice and how to rebuild the law on
environmental damage 121
Heloísa Oliveira

PART III ENERGY
9 Renewables under the scrutiny of international investment
law: the feed-in tariff 141
Monika Feigerlová
10 The proliferation of offshore renewable energy in
European seas: the regulatory challenges of emerging
technologies for EU environmental law 158
Nikolaos Giannopoulos
11 Environmental litigation before regional economic courts
in Africa and Latin America 178
Sonja Kahl
12 The national green tribunal model to ensure environmental
justice through collaboration 196
Masrur Salekin
13 People v Arctic Oil: Context, Judgment and Takeaways
for Future Climate Litigation 215
Suryapratim Roy and Alexandru Gociu

PART IV CASE STUDIES
14 A major future challenge for environmental law: salinization 236
Annalies Outhuijse, Tatia Brunings, and Ida Helene Groninga
15 Bringing nature back to agricultural land: bridging
ambition and reality in agri-environmental governance 252
Edwin Alblas
16 Groundwater relevance for Brazilian semiarid
development in the northeast: the need for protective
environmental laws 271
Jose Irivaldo Alves Oliveira Silva

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
ISBN-10	1-0353-5830-1 / 1035358301
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-5830-4 / 9781035358304
Zustand	Neuware