Research Handbook on Fundamental Concepts of Environmental Law

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

Contents:

PART I INTRODUCTION
1 The jurisprudential structure of environmental law 2
Douglas Fisher
2 A normative approach to environmental governance: sustainability at
the apex of environmental law 23
Klaus Bosselmann
3 From protection to restoration: a challenge for environmental governance 45
Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and Anastasia Telesetsky
4 Transnational environmental law: the birth of a contemporary analytical
perspective 71
Caiphas B. Soyapi and Louis Kotzé
5 Economic approaches to environmental governance: a principled analysis 94
Michael Faure
6 Human rights and the environment: a tale of ambivalence and hope 123
Anna Grear
7 A constitutional human right to a healthy environment 141
Nicholas Bryner
8 Rights of nature: a critique 164
Peter Burdon and Claire Williams

PART II THE DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL LAW REGIME
9 The development of international environmental law by the
International Court of Justice 184
Tim Stephens
10 The relative normativity of international environmental law 205
Niko Soininen and Seita Romppanen
11 The principle of sustainable development as a legal norm 228
Jonathan Verschuuren
12 The concept of the common heritage of mankind 252
Prue Taylor

PART III CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO THE ACHIEVEMENT
OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS
13 Environmental policy integration: the importance of balance and trade-offs 277
Jørgen K. Knudsen and William M. Lafferty
14 The role played by policy objectives in environmental law 301
Chris McGrath
15 The functions of rights of property in environmental law 318
David Grinlinton
16 Environmental impact assessment: ‘setting the law ablaze’ 339
Elizabeth Fisher
17 The precautionary principle in environmental governance 361
Annecoos Wiersema
18 The status of environmental principles in environmental law 381
Eloise Scotford
19 The conceptual foundations of climate change law 406
Benoit Mayer
20 The judicial development of ecologically sustainable development 427
Brian J. Preston

Index