International environmental law and the Global South - Alam, Shawkat; Atapattu, Sumudu A.; Gonzalez, Carmen G. 1962-|eeditor.; Razzaque, Jona (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Foreword / Christopher Weeramantry; 1. The North-South divide in international environmental law: framing the issues / Sumudu Atapattu and Carmen G. Gonzalez; Part I. History of the North-South Divide and Global Environmental Governance: 2. History of the North-South divide in international law: colonial discourses, sovereignty and self-determination / M. Rafiqul Islam; 3. Unsustainable development / Ruth Gordon; 4. The significance of international environmental law principles in reinforcing or dismantling the North-South divide / Sumudu Atapattu; 5. The Stockholm Conference and the creation of the South-North divide in international environmental law and policy / Karin Mickelson; 6. Global environmental governance and the South / Ved P. Nanda; 7. Quest for international environmental institutions: transition from CSD to HLPF / Bharat H. Desai and Balraj K. Sidhu; Part II. Selected International Environmental Law Examples: 8. Human rights, the environment and the global South / Louis J. Kotze;; 9. Access and benefit sharing: North-South challenges in implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Nagoya Protocol / Jorge Cabrera Medaglia; 10. Emerging powerful Southern voices: role of BASIC nations in shaping climate change mitigation commitments / Rowena Maguire and Xiaoyi Jiang; 11. Sustainable development in the era of bioenergy and agricultural land grab / Chidi Oguamanam; 12. Trade in hazardous waste / Zada Lipman; 13. The right to water: constitutional perspectives from the global South / Carlos Bernal; Part III. Trade, Investment, and Sustainable Development: 14. Trade and the environment: perspectives from the global South / Shawkat Alam; 15. From a divided heritage to a common future?: international investment law, human rights and sustainable development / Shyami Puvimanasinghe; 16. Project finance and sustainable development in the global South / Shalanda H. Baker; 17. International environmental law and sovereign wealth funds / Benjamin J. Richardson; 18. Transnational corporations and extractive industries / Sara L. Seck; Part IV. Environmental Justice and Vulnerable Groups: 19. Food justice: an environmental justice critique of the global food system / Carmen G. Gonzalez; 20. A justice paradox: climate change, small island developing states, and the absence of international legal remedy / Maxine Burkett; 21. South of South: examining the international climate regime from an indigenous perspective / Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner; 22. Water wars: anti-privatization struggles in the global South / Jackie Dugard and Elisabeth Koek; 23. Natural disaster and climate change / Paul Govind and Robert R. M. Verchick; 24. International law, cultural diversity, and the environment: the case of the general forestry law in Colombia / Daniel Bonilla Maldonado; 25. The contours of energy justice / Lakshman Guruswamy; Part V. Challenges and Options: 26. South-South cooperation: foundations for sustainable development / Koh Kheng-Lian and Nicholas A. Robinson; 27. Public participation in international negotiation and compliance / Lalanath de Silva; 28. Access to remedies in environmental matters and the North-South divide / Jona Razzaque; 29. Sustainable development versus green economy: the way forward? / Shawkat Alam and Jona Razzaque.
Keywords: Electronic books; Environmental law -- Developing countries; Environmental policy -- Developing countries; Environmental law, International