Research Handbook on Fundamental Concepts of Environmental Law

Edited by Douglas Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Contents

PART I THE OVERARCHING FRAMEWORK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
1. The Jurisprudential Structure of Environmental Law
Douglas Fisher

2. A Normative Approach to Environmental Governance: Sustainability at the Apex of Environmental Law
Klaus Bosselmann

3. From Protection to Restoration: A Challenge for Environmental Governance
Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and Anastasia Telesetsky

4. Transnational Environmental Law: The Birth of a Contemporary Analytical Perspective
Louis Kotze and Caiphas Soyapi

5. Economic Approaches to Environmental Governance: A Principled Analysis
Michael Faure

6. Human Rights and the Environment: A Tale of Ambivalence and Hope
Anna Grear

7. A Constitutional Human Right to a Healthy Environment
Nicholas Bryner

8. Rights of Nature: A Constructive Analysis
Peter Burdon and Claire Williams

PART II THE DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REGIME
9. The Development of International Environmental Law by the International Court of Justice
Tim Stephens

10. The Structure, Form and Language of International Environmental Norms - From Absolute to Relative Normativity
Niko Soininen

11. The Growing Significance of the Principle of Sustainable Development as a Legal Norm
Jonathan Verschuuren

12. The Concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind
Prue Taylor

PART III CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS
13. Environmental Policy Integration: The Importance of Balance and Trade-offs
Jorgen K. Knudsen and William M. Lafferty

14. The Role Played by Policy Objectives in Environmental Law
Chris McGrath

15. The Functions of Rights of Property in Environmental Law
David Grinlinton

16. Environmental Impact Assessment: 'Setting the Law Ablaze'
Elizabeth Fisher

17. The Precautionary Principle in Environmental Governance
Annecoos Wiersema

18. The Judicial Development of Ecologically Sustainable Development
Brian J. Preston

Index