Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding

Edited by Daniëlla Dam-de Jong, Professor of International Sustainable Development Law, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands and Britta Sjöstedt, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law, Lund University, Sweden

Contents:

Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
1 The international legal dimensions of environmental peacebuilding 1
Daniëlla Dam-de Jong and Britta Sjöstedt

PART I INTERNATIONAL LAW AS A NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK
2 Sustainable development and environmental peacebuilding 17
Onita Das
3 The contribution of equity to environmental peacebuilding 42
Virginie Barral
4 The role of fair and equitable benefit-sharing in environmental peacebuilding 62
Elisa Morgera
5 Managing the tensions between a maximalist approach to
environmental protection and anthropocentric peacebuilding 89
Jens Iverson
6 Environmental peacebuilding and environmental rule of law: Linkages,
lessons, and looking forward 105
Carl Bruch and Isabelle Morley
7 Natural resources, transitional states and grand corruption 127
Naomi Roht-Arriaza

PART II INTERNATIONAL LAW AS AN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
8 Environmental peacebuilding and sustaining peace: The United Nations
and integrated approaches 152
Albert Martinez and David Jensen
9 The contribution of the UN Security Council to environmental peacebuilding 183
Daniëlla Dam-de Jong
10 Contribution of multilateral environmental agreements and their
institutional mechanisms to environmental peacebuilding 200
Britta Sjöstedt
11 Assessing the contribution of human rights actors to environmental
peacebuilding 230
Karen Hulme
12 To repair or not to repair: What are the questions? 253
Giulia Pinzauti and Merryl Lawry-White
13 Environmental peacebuilding and natural resources management: The
role of international investment law 277
Ole Kristian Fauchald

PART III THE WAY FORWARD – AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
14 Addressing land inequality, rehabilitation and competing uses 304
Daniëlla Dam-de Jong
15 Access to water and peacebuilding 328
Mara Tignino and Tadesse Kebebew
16 Extractive industry for sustainable development? Some reflections
on the role of investment contracts in ensuring benefit sharing and
community participation in natural resource governance 355
Marco Pertile and Sondra Faccio
17 Integrating gender, peace and environment: The gender dimension of
environmental peacebuilding 381
Sarah Mead and Marie Jacobsson
18 Environmental peacebuilding and indigenous peoples’ rights to lands
and resources 401
Bas Rombouts

Index