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"Introduction: The Scholarship of Environmental Governance" [2012] ELECD 263; in Martin, Paul; Zhiping, Li; Tianbao, Qin; Du Plessis, Anel; Le Bouthillier, Yves; Williams, Angela (eds), "Environmental Governance and Sustainability" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Environmental Governance and Sustainability

Editor(s): Martin, Paul; Zhiping, Li; Tianbao, Qin; Du Plessis, Anel; Le Bouthillier, Yves; Williams, Angela

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781000472

Section Title: Introduction: The Scholarship of Environmental Governance

Number of pages: 14

Extract:

Introduction: the scholarship of
environmental governance

This collection of scholarly works provides insights into emerging develop-
ments in the field of legal governance of the environment. Environmental
governance is increasingly concerned with far more than legal doctrine,
though environmental law stands at the heart of good environmental gover-
nance. It is concerned with the totality of arrangements through which power
and resources are deployed to protect and restore natural resources, and how
the costs and benefits of this are allocated. As such, how the community exer-
cises its democratic rights; the ways in which government responds to the
needs of current and future generations and balances the interests of the
powerful with the powerless; the freedoms and responsibilities of commerce
and the holders of property; and the ways in which laws and policies are
informed by science and other perspectives are all important. The chapters in
this book show the many ways in which legal scholarship is pivotal to good
governance in all these respects, and the extent of innovation that is being
generated by the ecological, economic and social challenges that are arising.
The content and scope of these chapters demonstrate clearly the increasing
breadth and depth of environmental law scholarship. The chapters show the
many ways in which community and political leadership towards sustainabil-
ity is being translated into institutional arrangements in the international and
national spheres. The book also demonstrates the many conflicts and potential
conflicts inherent in a radical transformation of society and economy. Legal
scholars ...