The Transformation of Environmental Law and Governance

Edited by Francesco Sindico, Professor of International Environmental Law, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, Stephanie Switzer, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and Qin Tianbao, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China

Contents:

PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Risk, innovation and resilience: moving towards mutual
supportiveness 2
Francesco Sindico, Stephanie Switzer and Qin Tianbao

PART II INNOVATION
2 Fracking and environmental law for sustainability: an
era of global ecological risks and the imperative of legal
transformations 15
Patryck de Araújo Ayala and Mariana Carvalho Victor Coelho

PART III RISK
3 Innovating societal response to radiation risk: insights from
the Fukushima Safecast case 34
Anna Berti Suman
4 Drug pollution from manufacturing, antimicrobial
resistance and the importation of pharmaceutical active
ingredients from third countries. The European drug safety
regime under scrutiny: key legal and institutional aspects,
challenges and opportunities 51
Elodie Le Gal

PART IV RESILIENCE
5 Evaluating community resilience in promoting ecological
and social justice in groundwater governance: lessons from India 75
Stellina Jolly
6 Strengthening the role of traditional leaders for effective
local community participation in environmental
management in Malawi 93
Gift Dorothy Makanje

PART V CLIMATE CHANGE
7 Integrating climate change into impact assessments: key
design elements 112
Meinhard Doelle
8 ‘Innovation’ and the law in state reports on climate change action 130
He Xiangbai and Alexander Zahar
9 Climate change law and colonialism: the rights of nature
and a hypothetical case for bison person in Canada 148
Laura S. Lynes

PART VI ENERGY
10 Community renewable energy for sustainable development 168
Richard Ottinger, Tom Bourgeois, Robert Habermann and
Achinthi Vithanage

PART VII FRESHWATER
11 The construction of the Três Marias dam and the absence
of public policies for the arrival of the waters in the
municipality of Morada Nova de Minas in Brazil 190
Mônica Thaís Souza Ribeiro, Izabela Zanotelli Collares
and Danuta R. N. de Souza Calazans

PART VIII BIODIVERSITY AND TRADITIONAL
KNOWLEDGE AND LAND, FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
12 Blockchain technology for food security? Resilience
potential and risk identification for the Multilateral System
of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for
Food and Agriculture 207
Thomas Gils and Christine Frison
13 Synthetic biology and international environmental law:
time to move from definition to regulation 226
David Leary

PART IX OCEANS
14 Climate proofing ocean governance: a journey through
unchartered waters 245
Simone Borg

PART X HUMAN RIGHTS
15 A new frontier in human rights law: the proposed third
international covenant on the right of human beings to the
environment 266
Michel Prieur and Mohamed Ali Mekouar

PART XI LITIGATION
16 Resilience and access to climate justice 285
Morgan Eleanor Harris

Index