Groundwater Rights – From Individual Exploitation to Community Management
(2025)
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Cullet, P. (2025). Groundwater Rights – From Individual Exploitation to Community Management
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The Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood in an Ocean Context (2025)
Journal Article
Bender, M., Slobodian, L., Gjerde, K. M., Cullet, P., Singh, P., & Olsen, C. (in press). The Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood in an Ocean Context
Promises and Perils of Economic Development (2024)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2024). Promises and Perils of Economic Development. In S. Khair, S. Alam, & M. E. Haque (Eds.), Implementation of Sustainable Development in the Global South: Strategies, Innovations and Challenges (85-100). Hart. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509963782.ch-005
India’s New ‘Climate Right’: Boon or Bane for Climate Justice? (2024)
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Ohdedar, B. India’s New ‘Climate Right’: Boon or Bane for Climate Justice?
Promesses et limites de la reconnaissance des droits de la nature: Le cas des décisions attribuant la personnalité juridique au Gange et à la Yamuna (2024)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2024). Promesses et limites de la reconnaissance des droits de la nature: Le cas des décisions attribuant la personnalité juridique au Gange et à la Yamuna. In L. Boisson de Chazournes (Ed.), L'effectivité du droit international face à l'urgence écologique (167-188). Collège de France. https://doi.org/10.4000/12nrh
Faecal Sludge and Septage Management – Rights and Regulatory Dimensions (2024)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (in press). Faecal Sludge and Septage Management – Rights and Regulatory Dimensions. Environmental law and practice review, 9, 1-41
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India (2024)
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Cullet, P., Bhullar, L., & Koonan, S. (Eds.). (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198884682.001.0001Environmental law is a broad discipline covering issues such as nature conservation, the prevention or abatement of pollution, and waste management. It also encompasses concerns related to natural resources, such as forests, minerals, and fisheries,... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India.
Environmental Disasters and Climate Change (2024)
Book Chapter
Ohdedar, B. (2024). Environmental Disasters and Climate Change. In P. Cullet, L. Bhullar, & S. Koonan (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India (569-588). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198884682.013.32This chapter analyses the legal framework for environmental disasters in India in the context of intensifying climate impacts. The Disaster Management Act, 2005 (DMA) is the primary legal framework governing disasters. In addition, other areas of law... Read More about Environmental Disasters and Climate Change.
Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P., Bhullar, L., & Koonan, S. Introduction. In P. Cullet, L. Bhullar, & S. Koonan (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India (1-16). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198884682.002.0009
Public trusteeship, the Reserve and the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus: Implications for Social Justice in South Africa’s Water Law (2024)
Journal Article
Viljoen, G. (2024). Public trusteeship, the Reserve and the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus: Implications for Social Justice in South Africa’s Water Law. Law, environment & development journal, 20(1), 078-095. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042005This study explores how South Africa’s water law has evolved to ensure fair and equitable access to water resources after the country’s transition to democracy. Emphasis is placed on the transformative impact of the National Water Act 36 of 1998 (NWA... Read More about Public trusteeship, the Reserve and the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus: Implications for Social Justice in South Africa’s Water Law.
Beyond the Paris Agreement: Need for New Thinking to Tackle the Climate Crisis (2024)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2024). Beyond the Paris Agreement: Need for New Thinking to Tackle the Climate Crisis. In A. Zahar (Ed.), Research Handbook on the Law of the Paris Agreement (403-416). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886742.00025The Paris Agreement was and remains the most advanced effort by states to tackle the climate crisis. Yet, as the crisis worsens year after year, it is increasingly clear that neither the original Agreement nor subsequent developments provide the answ... Read More about Beyond the Paris Agreement: Need for New Thinking to Tackle the Climate Crisis.
Food and Land Policies Amid the Agricultural Land Conversion in Indonesia (2024)
Journal Article
Khanif, A., & Yunita, F. T. (2024). Food and Land Policies Amid the Agricultural Land Conversion in Indonesia. Law, environment & development journal, 20(1), 058-077. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041290This article examines the shifting of land and food legal policies in Indonesia. It also discusses legal and political contexts, including historical and current contexts of policies on land and how such policies influenced Indonesian political spect... Read More about Food and Land Policies Amid the Agricultural Land Conversion in Indonesia.
Law, Colonial-Capitalist Floods, and the Production of Injustices in Eastern India: Insights for Climate Adaptation (2024)
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Ohdedar, B. (2024). Law, Colonial-Capitalist Floods, and the Production of Injustices in Eastern India: Insights for Climate Adaptation. Transnational Environmental Law, 13(2), 264-285. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2047102524000074Floods are not merely ‘natural’ disasters; rather, they emerge as socio-natural phenomena shaped by political, social, and economic processes. Law plays a pivotal role in producing and sustaining these processes and contributes to the creation of unj... Read More about Law, Colonial-Capitalist Floods, and the Production of Injustices in Eastern India: Insights for Climate Adaptation.
The Efficacy of Administrative Orders and Sanctions in Regulating Corporate Environmental Crimes in Mining Areas in Tanzania (2024)
Journal Article
Mtavangu, V. B. (2024). The Efficacy of Administrative Orders and Sanctions in Regulating Corporate Environmental Crimes in Mining Areas in Tanzania. Law, environment & development journal, 20(1), 033-052. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041191Administrative orders and sanctions take a lion’s share among the environmental regulatory techniques in the Tanzanian mining areas. They are preferred by environmental enforcement agencies to regulate corporate environmental crimes, among others bec... Read More about The Efficacy of Administrative Orders and Sanctions in Regulating Corporate Environmental Crimes in Mining Areas in Tanzania.
Legal Inquiry into Mechanisms for Addressing the ‘Black Soot’ Problem in Rivers State, Nigeria (2024)
Journal Article
Tamuno, P. S., & Etemire, U. (2024). Legal Inquiry into Mechanisms for Addressing the ‘Black Soot’ Problem in Rivers State, Nigeria. Law, environment & development journal, 20(1), 016-032. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041190Port Harcourt, a city in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, has been plagued by the menace of soot in the last few years. This soot pollution, which has caught international attention has been attributed primarily to the widespread artisanal refining o... Read More about Legal Inquiry into Mechanisms for Addressing the ‘Black Soot’ Problem in Rivers State, Nigeria.
The Significance of Traditional Legal Framework in Regulating Groundwater Rights in Iran (2024)
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Hosseini, S., & Yadav, P. (2024). The Significance of Traditional Legal Framework in Regulating Groundwater Rights in Iran. Law, environment & development journal, 20(1), 001-015. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041189Throughout history, water has been a crucial resource for the survival and development of civilisations worldwide. The legal framework for water regulation has been shaped by a complex system of formal and informal norms, rules, and regulations that... Read More about The Significance of Traditional Legal Framework in Regulating Groundwater Rights in Iran.
From Green Rights to Rights of Nature: Fostering Synergies (2023)
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Cullet, P. From Green Rights to Rights of Nature: Fostering SynergiesCan the approach based on environment-related Human Rights be reconciled with the approach based on the Rights of Nature ? In this article, Phillipe Cullet studies the synergies between these methods and how they actually reinforce one another. In ex... Read More about From Green Rights to Rights of Nature: Fostering Synergies.
The Utility of Epidemiology Evidence in Resolving Compensation Quandary in Kenya: Case Study of Thange Oil Spill, Makueni County, Kenya (2023)
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Wamuyu, H., Odote, C., & Obiero, S. (2023). The Utility of Epidemiology Evidence in Resolving Compensation Quandary in Kenya: Case Study of Thange Oil Spill, Makueni County, Kenya. Law, environment & development journal, 19(1), 17-33. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040007Toxic torts that are non-occupational in nature have started to emerge in Kenyan courts posing challenges to legal practitioners regarding proof of causation of injuries owing to the latent nature of injuries from such torts that take time to show. T... Read More about The Utility of Epidemiology Evidence in Resolving Compensation Quandary in Kenya: Case Study of Thange Oil Spill, Makueni County, Kenya.
Privatisation of Natural Resource-Based Sectors, Ease of Doing Business, and the Law (2023)
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Dharmadhikary, S. (2023). Privatisation of Natural Resource-Based Sectors, Ease of Doing Business, and the Law. Law, environment & development journal, 19(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039965In 1991, several sectors of the Indian economy which hitherto were more or less the exclusive domain of the public sector were opened up to private players, including global corporates. This was accompanied by a series of changes to the related polic... Read More about Privatisation of Natural Resource-Based Sectors, Ease of Doing Business, and the Law.
Environmental Concerns in Model BITs: Comparative Study of India and Sri Lanka (2023)
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Muhandiram, N. L., & Sandhu, R. (2023). Environmental Concerns in Model BITs: Comparative Study of India and Sri Lanka. Law, environment & development journal, 19(1), 541-558. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039444Investment flows pose one of the newest and greatest challenge in the pursuit of sustainable development. Developmental activities resulting from rapid industrialisation and unchecked exploitation of natural resources have come at the cost of environ... Read More about Environmental Concerns in Model BITs: Comparative Study of India and Sri Lanka.