The Search for Environmental Justice

The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series

Di编辑保罗•马丁rector 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, Sadeq Z. Bigdeli, Toronto-based lawyer and visiting scholar, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada, Trevor Daya-Winterbottom, Senior Lecturer, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Willemien du Plessis, Professor, North-West University, South Africa and Amanda Kennedy, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

This is an extended and remarkable excursus into the evolving concept of environmental justice. This key book provides an overview of the major developments in the theory and practice of environmental justice and illustrates the direction of the evolution of rights of nature. The work exposes the diverse meanings and practical uses of the concept of environmental justice in different jurisdictions, and their implications for the law, society and the environment.

‘This book makes a very useful contribution to the literature on environmental justice through a series of varied, diverse and distinct contributions that map different areas of this multi-faceted topic. The diverse positions advocated reflect the difficult challenges ahead towards ensuring environmental protection in an equitable and just manner at the national and international levels.’
– Philippe Cullet, SOAS, University of London, UK

‘This is an extended and remarkable excursus into the evolving concept of environmental justice. The Editors have woven several nuggets from various scholars and jurisdictions into an impressive mosaic that will resonate for a long time in this nascent literature. The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law is emerging as an important facilitator of conceptual norms of international environmental law and justice. The welcome drift in the direction of “environmental justice” is so compelling that the UNEP Governing Council has recently adopted the first internationally negotiated document to establish the supportive “environmental rule of law.” As a player in the important jurisprudence from South Asia on environmental justice, I stand in reverential awe of this tour de force of experiences in other regions toward the promotion of good environmental governance and environmental social justice.’
– Parvez Hassan, Hassan and Hassan (Advocates), Pakistan