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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

The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India (2024)
Book
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/9780198884682.001.0001

Environmental 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/9780198884682.013.32

This 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.

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.00042005

This 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/10.4337/9781800886742.00025

The 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.00041290

This 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)
Journal Article
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/S2047102524000074

Floods 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.00041191

Administrative 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.00041190

Port 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)
Journal Article
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.00041189

Throughout 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.

The Utility of Epidemiology Evidence in Resolving Compensation Quandary in Kenya: Case Study of Thange Oil Spill, Makueni County, Kenya (2023)
Journal Article
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.00040007

Toxic 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)
Journal Article
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.00039965

In 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)
Journal Article
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.00039444

Investment 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.