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This important book investigates the environmental legal frameworks, court structures and relevant jurisprudence of nineteen countries, representing legal systems and legal cultures from a diverse array of countries situated across the globe. Among the many judicial initiatives and issues covered in this book the reader will find discussions of the following: promoting constitutional rights to a healthy environment; recognizing public rights to the environment in laws protecting private property; pronouncing on the validity of executive and legislative action; creating specialist environmental courts or tribunals; applying international environmental principles in the domestic context; imposing liability on offenders to rehabilitate damaged environments; developing common law remedies to rectify environmental harm; reducing costs and risks associated with environmental litigation; setting ecological limits to the use and development of natural and physical resources; generating public awareness and political will. As a critical and informative exposition of current issues relating to the judiciary and environmental governance, this book contributes to a better understanding of the manner in which sustainable environmental governance may be achieved by way of judicial intervention.

Environmental policy --- Environmental law, International --- Offenses against the environment --- Environnement --- Environnement (Droit international) --- Law and legislation. --- Politique gouvernementale --- Droit pénal --- Environmental law. --- Environmental policy. --- Judicial power.

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Law | Environment | Africa compiles the proceedings of the 5th Symposium and the 4th Scientific Conference of the Association of Environmental Law Lecturers from African Universities (ASSELLAU) in cooperation with the Climate Policy and Energy Security Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa run by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The book

sustainable development --- Environment Law --- Africa --- Umweltrecht --- Afrika --- Environmental law --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- Environmental policy --- Law --- Sustainable development --- Law and legislation