Description
This volume examines the impact of globalization on international environmental law and the implementation of sustainable development in the Global South.
Comprising contributions from lawyers from the Global South or who have experience in the Global South, this volume is organized into three parts, with a thematic inquiry woven through every chapter to ask how law can enable economies that can be sustained, given the limited carrying capacity of the earth. Part I describes and characterizes the status quo of environmental and economic problems in the Global South during the process of globalization. Some of those problems include redistribution of environmental burden on the public through over-reliance on the state in emerging economies and the transition to public-private partnerships, as well as extreme uncontrolled economic expansion. Building on Part I, Part II takes an international perspective by presenting some tools that are in place during the process of globalization that lead to friction and interfaces between developed and developing economies in environmental law. Recognizing the impossibility of a globalized Northern economy, the authors in Part III present some alternatives through framework ideas of human and civil rights, environmental rights, and indigenous persons’ rights, as well as concrete and specific legal tools to strengthen justice and rule of law institutions. The book gives new perspectives to familiar approaches through concrete examples by professional practitioners and theoretical discourse by academic researchers, and can thereby form the basis for changes in practices, as well as further discussions and comparisons.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law, sustainable development, and globalization and international relations, as well as legal professionals and practitioners.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PAOLO DAVIDE FARAH AND KIRK W. JUNKER
PART I The environment in the Global South during the globalization of "sustainable development"
1 Managing environmental risks in privately financed infrastructure projects in Nigeria
GEORGE NWANGWU
2 The curse of best practices: impact assessment in the context of the governance of extractives in Mongolia
SANCHIR JARGALSAIKHAN
3 Extra-territorial litigation remedies: a case study of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Uganda
XI YU
PART II Interfaces between developed and developing countries in environmental law
4 Sustainable development through environmental federalism in the case of Ethiopia
TSEGAI BERHANE GHEBRETEKLE
5 Diversification of mono-economies: how legislation manages the environmental impact of foreign investments in Nigeria
CHIDEBE MATTHEW NWANKWO AND GEORGE NWANGWU
6 Transformation of sustainable development goals in regional international organizations: vertical effects, contested indicators, and interlinkages for the
formation of environmental law
WINFRIED HUCK
7 The implementation of the Paris agreement through tax law: examples from South Africa, India, China, and Brazil
MRINALINI SHINDE
PART III Alternatives to globalization in environmental law
8 The contracting state’s role in the energy community to build the European Union’s envisioned sustainable future
TAMUNA BERIDZE
9 Global environmental governance: a necessary pathway for sustainable development of Caribbean Small Island Developing States
RICHARD A. BYRON-COX
10 Going beyond the law: the potential and limits of public participation in the context of sustainable development
MAREK PRITYI
11 Environmental hazards and human rights violations: the case of Presídio Central Prison in Brazil
DANIEL NEVES PEREIRA AND STELLA EMERY SANTANA
Conclusions: indicator species and the future of environmental law
PAOLO DAVIDE FARAH AND KIRK W. JUNKER
