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"Contents" [2011] ELECD 637; in Benidickson, Jamie; Boer, Ben; Benjamin, Herman Antonio; Morrow, Karen (eds), "Environmental Law and Sustainability after Rio" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Environmental Law and Sustainability after Rio

Editor(s): Benidickson, Jamie; Boer, Ben; Benjamin, Herman Antonio; Morrow, Karen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857932242

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements xiii

1. Introduction: environmental law and sustainability after Rio 1
Jamie Benidickson, Ben Boer, Antonio Herman Benjamin
and Karen Morrow

PART ONE HISTORY, PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF
SUSTAINABILITY

2. Reflecting on Rio: environmental law in the coming decades 9
Nicholas A. Robinson
3. Capacity building in environmental law in African universities 31
Charles Odidi Okidi
4. Local Agenda 21: a rights-based approach to local environmental
governance 47
Anél du Plessis
5. Brazilian `socioambientalismo' and environmental justice 66
Fernanda de Salles Cavedon and Ricardo Stanziola Vieira
6. Risk society and the precautionary principle 84
Miriam Alfie Cohen and Adrián de Garay Sánchez
7. Measuring the environment through public procurement 101
Nicola Lugaresi

PART TWO ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, ACCESS TO
JUSTICE AND LIABILITY ISSUES

8. A sustainable and equitable legal order 119
Werner Scholtz
9. The courts and public participation in environmental decision-
making 138
Karen Morrow
10. Enhanced access to environmental justice in Kenya 158
Robert Kibugi
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11. Towards a new theory of environmental liability without proof
of damage 178
José Juan González
12. Diffuse damages in environmental torts in Brazil 196
Arlindo Daibert

PART THREE NATURAL RESOURCES AND
SUSTAINABILITY

13. Transboundary aquifers: towards substantive and process reform
in treaty-making 217
Joseph W. Dellapenna and Flavia Rocha Loures
14. Achieving sustainability: plant breeders' and farmers' rights 235
Mekete Bekele Tekle

PART FOUR ENERGY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND
SUSTAINABILITY

15. International law and sustainable ...