The Transformation of Environmental Law and Governance: Risk, Innovation and Resilience

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This cutting-edge book considers the functional inseparability of risk and innovation within the context of environmental law and governance. Analysing both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ innovation, the book argues that approaches to socio-ecological risk require innovation in order for society and the environment to become more resilient. In addition to risk and innovation, this book also highlights the need for resilience thinking in environmental law and governance, questioning whether these three factors are mutually supportive. Featuring wide geographical coverage of environmental law issues in both developing and developed nations, contributions posit that environmental law and governance is in a constant state of transformation. Throughout the book, discrete topics such as oceans, climate change and biodiversity are considered alongside intersecting themes such as human rights and litigation. Featuring up to date analysis of cutting edge topics by leading scholars in the field, The Transformation of Environmental Law and Governance will be a key resource for academics and students in the fields of environmental law, governance and regulation and environmental politics and policy. The valuable insights offered will also be beneficial for practitioners and lawmakers involved in the development of environmental law. Contents List of contributors Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 Risk, innovation and resilience: moving towards mutual supportiveness • Francesco Sindico, Stephanie Switzer and Qin Tianbao PART II: INNOVATION 2 Fracking and environmental law for sustainability: an era of global ecological risks and the imperative of legal transformations • Patryck de Araújo Ayala and Mariana Carvalho Victor Coelho PART III: RISK 3 Innovating societal response to radiation risk: insights from the Fukushima Safecast case • Anna Berti Suman 4 Drug pollution from manufacturing, antimicrobial resistance and the importation of pharmaceutical active ingredients from third countries. The European drug safety regime under scrutiny: key legal and institutional aspects, challenges and opportunities • Elodie Le Gal PART IV: RESILIENCE 5 Evaluating community resilience in promoting ecological and social justice in groundwater governance: lessons from India • Stellina Jolly 6 Strengthening the role of traditional leaders for effective local community participation in environmental management in Malawi • Gift Dorothy Makanje PART V: CLIMATE CHANGE 7 Integrating climate change into impact assessments: key design elements • Meinhard Doelle 8 ‘Innovation’ and the law in state reports on climate change action • He Xiangbai and Alexander Zahar 9 Climate change law and colonialism: the rights of nature and a hypothetical case for bison person in Canada • Laura S. Lynes PART VI: ENERGY 10 Community renewable energy for sustainable development • Richard Ottinger, Tom Bourgeois, Robert Habermann and Achinthi Vithanage PART VII: FRESHWATER 11 The construction of the Três Marias dam and the absence of public policies for the arrival of the waters in the municipality of Morada Nova de Minas in Brazil • Mônica Thaís Souza Ribeiro, Izabela Zanotelli Collares and Danuta R. N. de Souza Calazans PART VIII: BIODIVERSITY AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND LAND, FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 12 Blockchain technology for food security? Resilience potential and risk identification for the Multilateral System of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture • Thomas Gils and Christine Frison 13 Synthetic biology and international environmental law: time to move from definition to regulation • David Leary PART IX: OCEANS 14 Climate proofing ocean governance: a journey through unchartered waters • Simone Borg PART X: HUMAN RIGHTS 15 A new frontier in human rights law: the proposed third international covenant on the right of human beings to the environment • Michel Prieur and Mohamed Ali Mekouar PART XI: LITIGATION 16 Resilience and access to climate justice • Morgan Eleanor Harris Index