Environmental Governance and Sustainability

Edited by Paul Martin, Director of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law, University of New England, Australia, and co-chair of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Research Committee, Li Zhiping, Law School, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, Qin Tianbao, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China, Anél du Plessis, Law Faculty Trust Chair, Department of Mercantile Law, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Yves Le Bouthillier, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada and Angela Williams, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Sussex, UK

Contents:

Introduction: The Scholarship of Environmental Governance

PART I: THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
1. Instruments for Environmental Governance: What Works?
Michael G. Faure

2. Does (Property) Diversity Beget (Landscape) Sustainability?
John Page and Ann Brower

3. Creating Next Generation Rural Landscape Governance: The Challenge for Environmental Law Scholarship
Paul Martin, Jacqueline Williams and Amanda Kennedy

PART II: GOVERNANCE INNOVATION IN CHINA
4. Constitutionalism and the Environment: The Evolution of Environmental Governance in China’s Socialist Market Economy
Kishan Khoday

5. Toward a More Effective Environmental Criminal Law in China
Michael G. Faure and Hao Zhang

6. A Feasible Approach to Environmental Public Interest Litigation: The People’s Procuratorate as Plaintiff
Mei Hong and Yin Yanjie

7. Environmental E-governance in China: Insights from Government-citizen Interaction
Qin Tianbao and Wang Huanhuan

PART III: THE INTERSECTION OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AROUND WATER LAWS
8. Global Climate Disruption and Water Law Reform in the United States
Joseph W. Dellapenna

9. The Legal Protection of Ramsar Wetlands: Australian Reforms
Alex Gardner

10. Drinking Water Security in China: A Critical Justice Issue
Ke Jian

PART IV: LINKING LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL INNOVATIONS
11. The Quest for a World Environment Organization: Reflections on a Failing Debate as an Input for Future Improvement
Nils Goeteyn and Frank Maes

12. Human Rights Law, Refugee and Migration Law, and Environmental Law: Exploring their Contributions in the Context of ‘Environmental Migration’
Michèle Morel

13. Climate Change: Legal Impediments to Technology Transfer
Zhou Chen

14. Implementing Stewardship in Kenyan Land Use Law: The Case for a Sustainability Extension
Robert Kibugi

Index