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Legal Protection of Indigenous Peoples Rights in Forest Management in South Kalimantan (2025)
Journal Article
Rahmawati, D., Budiman, A., Topan, M., & Hendri Yanova, M. (in press). Legal Protection of Indigenous Peoples Rights in Forest Management in South Kalimantan. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(2), 195-209. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00773551

Indigenous People have a very strong and historical relationship with their land and nature. They continue to struggle to strengthen their position and to obtain their rights. Often the rights of customary communities are ignored by the state, couple... Read More about Legal Protection of Indigenous Peoples Rights in Forest Management in South Kalimantan.

Le Regime Juridique de la Pollution Sonore au Cameroun (2025)
Journal Article
YANOU, A. (in press). Le Regime Juridique de la Pollution Sonore au Cameroun. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(2), 652-664. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00724910

Le bruit est un élément essentiel de l’environnement naturel. Le chant des oiseaux, le jappement des chiens, le bruissement des arbres et le clapotis des vagues constituent des éléments de l’environnement dont l’individu est une composante essentiell... Read More about Le Regime Juridique de la Pollution Sonore au Cameroun.

The Revamping of India’s ‘Access and Benefit Sharing’ Regime: A Gateway to Inclusive Biodiversity Governance? (2025)
Journal Article
Joshi, E., Patodi, I., & Pathak Broome, N. (2025). The Revamping of India’s ‘Access and Benefit Sharing’ Regime: A Gateway to Inclusive Biodiversity Governance?. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(2), 176-194. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00597394

Codified for the first time in the Convention on Biological Diversity 1992 (CBD), ‘Access and Benefit Sharing’ (ABS) is a mechanism for ensuring that indigenous people and local communities (IPs & LCs) receive a share of the monetary benefits arising... Read More about The Revamping of India’s ‘Access and Benefit Sharing’ Regime: A Gateway to Inclusive Biodiversity Governance?.

Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains (2025)
Journal Article
Thakur, G. (2025). Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(2), 635-651. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00596804

The Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway Project is a major infrastructure project being undertaken in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh that is characterised by its limited railway connectivity. Keeping aside its nature as a public transit projec... Read More about Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains.

A Review of End-of-Life Vehicle Legal Framework in China (2025)
Journal Article
Yang, J. (2025). A Review of End-of-Life Vehicle Legal Framework in China. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(2), 616-634. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00596779

Despite being the largest vehicle owner in the world, China faces significant challenges with its end-of-life vehicle (ELV) management. In its early stages, Chinese ELV legislation focused primarily on simple metal recycling, with limited considerat... Read More about A Review of End-of-Life Vehicle Legal Framework in China.

Foreword (2025)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (n.d.). Foreword. In J.-C. N. Ashukem (Ed.), Handbook on Human Right to a Healthy Environment: International, Regional, and Comparative Pathways for Policy Intervention in Cameroon. Springer.

Transition and Trends: Achieving Climate Justice and Human Security in Africa (2025)
Journal Article
Golding, J., Kameri-Mbote, P., & Kaguru, M. (2025). Transition and Trends: Achieving Climate Justice and Human Security in Africa. Law, Environment and Development Journal, (21), 601-615, C2101. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00551039

The transition from conceptualising to implementing climate justice and achieving human security is just beginning in Africa. In this paper, we adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to examine enabling factors that drive climate justice and human secu... Read More about Transition and Trends: Achieving Climate Justice and Human Security in Africa.

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. (2025). The Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood in an Ocean Context. Ocean Yearbook Online, 39, 79-117. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116001-03901006

This think-piece explores the growing movement and legal framework of rights of nature as it might be applied in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ). We first examine what rights of nature is, and how it has been applied in practice. We... Read More about The Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood in an Ocean Context.

Introduction (2025)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P., & Shree, R. (n.d.). Introduction. In P. Cullet, & R. Shree (Eds.), River Rejuvenation and River Rights: Evolving Debates in India. Routledge.

River Rights – Framing, Recognition and Beyond (2025)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (n.d.). River Rights – Framing, Recognition and Beyond. River Rejuvenation and River Rights: Evolving Debates in India. Routledge.

This chapter starts by engaging with the conceptual framing of river rights. It highlights some of the potential that the river rights discourse offers as an alternative to the dominant paradigm of sustainable development. A river rights framing prov... Read More about River Rights – Framing, Recognition and Beyond.

Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases (2025)
Journal Article
Fajrini, R. (2025). Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(1), 129 - 156. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506562

This paper analyses 321 civil environmental cases in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, identifying patterns and trends over the past decade. The findings reveal a growing public interest dimension in these civil cases, marked by the rise of public interes... Read More about Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases.

Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2025)
Journal Article
Morales Naranjo, V. (2025). Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(1), 62 - 85. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506543

In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to recognize the rights of nature (RoN) in the Constitution. Seventeen years later, it is necessary to analyse the work carried out by nature defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court to deve... Read More about Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court.

Institutional and Regulatory Constraints of Governing Water in India: An Illustration through Groundwater Regulation and Pollution Abatement (2025)
Journal Article
Yadav, P., Pillai, S., & Narayanan, N. (2025). Institutional and Regulatory Constraints of Governing Water in India: An Illustration through Groundwater Regulation and Pollution Abatement. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(1), 86 - 109. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506550

Water governance involves multiple challenges that are difficult to address with a single solution. This complexity in governing water resources in India, which makes it a wicked problem illustrated through two cases – first, groundwater exploitation... Read More about Institutional and Regulatory Constraints of Governing Water in India: An Illustration through Groundwater Regulation and Pollution Abatement.

Leveraging Carbon Trading for a Just Energy Transition in Kenya (2025)
Journal Article
Kimani, P. (2025). Leveraging Carbon Trading for a Just Energy Transition in Kenya. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(1), 42 - 61. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506538

This article explores how Kenya’s carbon trading framework can be leveraged to support a Just Energy Transition (JET) that aligns climate action with socio economic equity. While Kenya is a leader in Africa’s voluntary carbon market, exemplified by i... Read More about Leveraging Carbon Trading for a Just Energy Transition in Kenya.

Sustaining the Future Through Addressing the Past: The Transitional Justice Functions of Biocultural Community Protocols (2025)
Journal Article
Sanchez, M. (2025). Sustaining the Future Through Addressing the Past: The Transitional Justice Functions of Biocultural Community Protocols. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(1), 19 - 41. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506365

Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) represent legal mechanisms for indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) to assert collective regulatory rights to genetic resources associated with traditional knowledge. BCPs inherently speak to power a... Read More about Sustaining the Future Through Addressing the Past: The Transitional Justice Functions of Biocultural Community Protocols.

Ripples of Conflict: Drivers and Resolutions of Water Resources Disputes -A Case Study of Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya (2025)
Journal Article
Ngonge, D. N., Muigua, K., & Nyukuri, E. (2025). Ripples of Conflict: Drivers and Resolutions of Water Resources Disputes -A Case Study of Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(1), 001-015. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00505190

Historically, the semi-arid and dry regions of the Kenyan borders have experienced perennial conflicts that revolve around the scarce water-related resources both on land and in water but spread around Lake Turkana, the largest desert lake in Africa.... Read More about Ripples of Conflict: Drivers and Resolutions of Water Resources Disputes -A Case Study of Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya.

Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2025)
Journal Article
Grijalva, A. (2025). Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(1), 110 - 128. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506557

In this essay I analyse some relationships among the rights of nature and the human right to a healthy environment. I show these relationships describing several rulings of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, and specially the Los Cedros judgement,... Read More about Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court.

The Human Right to Water and Climate Change in South Asia: A Review of Law and Policy Challenges (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ohdedar, B. (2025). The Human Right to Water and Climate Change in South Asia: A Review of Law and Policy Challenges. SOAS School of Law, Gender and Media, 12, 1-44. https://www.soas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2025-05/12-The%20Human%20Right%20to%20Water%20and%20Climate%20Change%20in%20South%20Asia-BOhdedar-15%20May2025.pdf

This article reviews and analyses on the legal and policy debates around the Human Right to Water in the context of the increasing impacts of climate change in South Asia. The South Asian region faces a range of climate-related water issues, with inc... Read More about The Human Right to Water and Climate Change in South Asia: A Review of Law and Policy Challenges.