Randall S. Abate
Gina Abatemarco
Deepa Badrinarayana
Rebecca Bratspies
Maxine Burkett
Esmeralda Colombo
John Comiskey
Begaiym Esenkulova
Patrícia Galvão Ferreira
Joshua C. Gellers
Thomas O. Herrington
Stellina Jolly
Jae-Hyup Lee
Kelsey Leonard
James R. May
Marijana Mladenov
Lina Muñoz Ávila
Damilola S. Olawuyi
Jonathan Scherch
Maria Antonia Tigre
Climate Change and the Voiceless by 
Climate Justice by
Climate change is one of the most complex political, social, and environmental issues of this century, and climate change adaptation has become an increasingly large focus of global efforts. The international community's attention on adaptation has been primarily focused on developing countries' needs, with consensus that the world's most vulnerable communities--the urban and rural poor, low-lying island nations, and indigenous peoples--require additional protection. It was in response to this need for equity that "climate justice" emerged. Climate justice can be defined generally as addressing the disproportionate burden of climate change impacts on poor and marginalized communities. It seeks to promote more equitable allocation of the burdens of these impacts at the local, national, and global levels through proactive regulatory initiatives and reactive judicial remedies that draw on international human rights and domestic environmental justice theories. Yet, efforts to define climate justice as a field of inquiry can be elusive and underinclusive because the concept is so vast in scope. Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges seeks to fill that void, providing an overview of the landscape of climate justice from a variety of legal and geographic perspectives in a case study format. Drawing on the expertise of 29 contributors from 16 countries, the book analyzes climate justice from an international law perspective and from the perspectives of legal responses to promote climate justice in several regions of the world, including Pacific island nations, South Asia, North America, Africa, and the Middle East. It addresses proposed solutions to a range of regulatory obstacles under international law, U.S. law, and foreign domestic law in seeking to promote climate justice on a global scale.
Abate, Randall S. 2021. "Anthropocene Accountability Litigation: Confronting Common Enemies to Promote a Just Transition." Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 46(S).PDF
Abate, Randall S. Summer, 2019. "Atmospheric Trust Litigation: Foundation for a Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate System?." George Washington Journal of Energy & Environmental Law 10, 33. MU Affiliates
Abate, Randall S. 2016. "Ocean Iron Fertilization and Indigenous Peoples' Right to Food: Leveraging International and Domestic Law Protections to Enhance Access to Salmon in the Pacific Northwest." UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 20(1): 45-86. MU Affiliates,
Badrinarayana, Deepa. 2018. "A Constitutional Right to International Legal Representation: The Case of Climate Change," Tulane Law Review 93, no. 1: 47-104. MU Affiliates | SSRN
Badrinarayana, Deepa. 2017. "The Jewel in the Crown: Can India's Strict Liability Doctrine Deepen Our Understanding of Tort Law Theory?" University of Louisville Law Review 55(1): 25-56. MU Affiliates I SSRN
Badrinarayana, Deepa. 2017. "The "Right" Right to Environmental Protection: What We Can Discern from the American and Indian Constitutional Experience." Brooklyn Journal of International Law 43(1): 75-130. MU Affiliates | SSRN
Badrinarayana, Deepa. 2015 '"Gatting" the New Climate Treaty Right: Leveraging Energy Subsidies to Promote Multilateralism." Fordham International Law Journal 39(2)179-204. MU Affiliates | SSRN
Badrinarayana, Deepa. 2016. "India's Climate Change Mitigation Strategy," in Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, Climate Change Law, 503-514, edited by Daniel A. Farber and Marjan Peeters.
Gina Abatemarco
Abatemarco, Gina, dir. 2015. Kivalina: Life in the Modern Arctic. Savor Terra Films, New York.
Environmental Justice: Law Policy and Regulation by
"Environmental Justice: Law, Policy, and Regulation explores theory and practice in this dynamic subject, which fuses environmental law and civil rights enforcement. From early concerns over toxic waste in minority communities, environmental justice expanded to consider the range of environmental threats facing poor, immigrant, and indigenous communities; women, children, and seniors; and other vulnerable populations. This third edition provides extensively updated materials to address environmental justice concerns today, including oil drilling in the Arctic, the Dakota Access Pipeline, drinking water contamination in Flint, and the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Featuring new chapters addressing disaster justice and food justice, this new edition also expands coverage of environmental enforcement, contaminated sites, climate justice, and environmental justice in Indian country, all with an eye towards identifying modern challenges and available tools for the continuing pursuit of environmental justice"--
La Greca, Charlie, and Rebecca Bratspies. Mayah's Lot. Environmental Justice Chronicles, Book 1. CUNY School of Law Center for Urban Reform. cuny.edu
La Greca, Charlie, and Rebecca Bratspies. Bina's Plant. Environmental Justice Chronicles, Book 2. CUNY School of Law Center for Urban Reform. cuny.edu
Bratspies, Rebecca. 2020. "Renewable Rikers: A Plan for Restorative Environmental Justice." Loyola Law Review 66(2): 371-400. SSRN | MU Affiliates
Bratspies, Rebecca M. 2020. "Public Housing, Private Owners: Sustainable Development Lessons from the Fight to Shut the Poletti Power Plant." City University of New York, School of Law. SSRN
Bratspies, Rebecca. 2020. ""Territory Is Everything": Afro-Colombian Communities, Human Rights and Illegal Land Grabs." HRLR Online 4(3):290-323. https://heinonline-org.ezproxy.monmouth.edu/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/hrlro4&i=285
Scott, Inara; David Takacs; Rebecca Bratspies; Vanessa Casado Perez; Robin Kundis Craig; Keith Hirokawa; Blake Hudson; Sarah Krakoff; Katrina Fischer Kuh; Jessica Owley; Melissa Powers; Shannon Roesler; Jonathan Rosenbloom; J.B. Ruhl; Erin Ryan. 2019. "Environmental Law. Disrupted," Environmental Law Reporter News and Analysis 49(1): : 10038-10062. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/elrna49&i=41
Bratspies, Rebecca. 2019. "The Trump Administration versus the Administrative State: A Response to Professor Buzbee's Deregulatory Splintering." Chicago-Kent Law Review 94(3):685-698. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/chknt94&i=713
Maxine Burkett
Burkett, Maxine. 2018. "Behind the Veil: Climate Migration, Regime Shift, and a New Theory of Justice," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 53(2): 445-494. MU Affiliates | ScholarSpace
Burkett, Maxine, Jainey Bavishi, and Erin Shew. 2017. "Climate Displacement, Migration, and Relocation-and the United States." Climate Law 2017;7; (4): 227-231. MU Affiliates Link | SSRN
Yamada, Seiji, Maxine Burkett, and Gregory G. Maskarinec. 2017. "Sea-Level Rise and the Marshallese Diaspora." Environmental Justice 10, no. 4 (2017): 93-97. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2016.0038
Burkett, Maxine. 2016. “Climate Disobedience.” Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 27 (1): 1–50. MU Affiliates Link | SSRN
Burkett, Maxine. 2016. "Reading between the Red Lines: Loss and Damage and the Paris Outcome," Climate Law 6, (1-2): 118-129. MU Affiliates
Burkett, Maxine. 2016. "Justice and Contemporary Climate Relocation: An Addendum to Words of Caution on ‘Climate Refugees’", New Security Beat, August 2016. https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2016/08/...
Magnan, A. K., E.L.F. Schipper, M. Burkett, S. Bharwani, I. Burton, S. Eriksen, F. Gemenne, J. Schaar, and G. Ziervogel. 2016. “Addressing the Risk of Maladaptation to Climate Change.” WIREs: Climate Change 7 (5): 646–65. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.409 | MU Affiliates
Burkett, Maxine. 2015. "Lessons from Contemporary Resettlement in the South Pacific." Journal of International Affairs 68 (2) (Spring): 75-XII. MU Affiliates | SSRN
Burkett, Maxine. 2015. "Rehabilitation: A Proposal for a Climate Compensation Mechanism for Small Island States." Santa Clara Journal of International Law 13,(1): 81-124. MU Affiliates | SSRN
Colombo, Esmeralda. 2021. “Law and Ethics: Deep Ecology, Climate Change, and Norway’s Wolf Policy.” Scandinavian Studies in Law 67.
Colombo, Esmeralda. 2021. “From Bushfires to Misfires: Climate-Related Financial Risk after McVeigh v. Retail Employees Superannuation Trust” (accepted in TEL 2021).
Colombo, Esmeralda. 2021. “Climate Change and the Individual: A Norwegian Perspective.” In Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects, 91-117, edited by Francesco Sindico and Makane Moïse Mbengue. Springer. springer.com
Colombo, Esmeralda. 2020. “«Det norske paradokset» i Klimasøksmål Arktis: ein rettsleg analyse av økonomiske vurderingar." Retfærd 2: 47-70.
Colombo, Esmeralda, and Anastasia Giadrossi. 2020. "Comparative International Litigation and Climate Change: A Case Study on Access to Justice in Adaptation Matters." University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 81(3): 527-596. MU Affiliates
Colombo, Esmeralda. 2017.“(Un)comfortably Numb: The Role of National Courts for Access to Justice in Climate Matters”. In Procedural Environmental Rights: Principle X in Theory and Practice, 437-464, edited by Jerzy Jendrośka and Magdalena Bar. Intersentia. cambridge.org
Colombo, Esmeralda. 2017. "The Quest for Cosmopolitan Justice in Climate Matters." Nordisk Miljörättslig Tidskrift 25-39. Open Access
Colombo, Esmeralda. 2017. "Enforcing International Climate Change Law in Domestic Courts: A New Trend of Cases for Boosting Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration?" UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 35 (1): 98. MU Affiliates | escholarship.org
Colombo, Esmeralda. 2016. "Enforcing International Law in US Courts: The Law of the Sea Convention at Play in Kivalina." ILSA Journal for International and Comparative Law 23(1): 106-144. Nova.edu
Comiskey, John and Michael Larrañaga. 2019. “Climate Security: A Premortem Approach to a Sustainable Global Future.” Homeland Security Affairs 15, Article 8. www.hsaj.org/
Esenkulova, Begaiym. 2020. "Investment Protection and Sustainable Development in International Investment Agreements: Building Bridges Instead of Walls." In World Trade and Local Public Interest, 205-241, edited by Csongor István Nagy. Cham: Springer International Publishing. SpringerLink
Dzhuraev, Emilbek, Saniya Toktogazieva, Begaiym Esenkulova, and Ayaz Baetov. 2015. "The Law and Politics of Keeping a Constitutional Order: Kyrgyzstan’s Cautionary Story." Hague Journal on the Rule of Law : HJRL 7 (2): 263-282.
Ferreira, Patrícia Galvão. 2022. "The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI): Using Global Hybrid Regulation to Promote Domestic Governance Reform." In Global Hybrid and Private Governance: Standard-Setting, Market Regulation, and Institutional Design, edited b Benedict Kingbury and Richard B. Stewart. SSRN
Estrin, David and Patricia Galvao Ferreira. "Advancing Climate Justice: The New IBA Model Statute for Proceedings Challenging Government Failure to Act on Climate Change." in Proc. WCEL 2nd World Environmental Law Congress, Forthcoming. SSRN
Ferreira, Patrícia Galvão.2020. "Indigenous Environmental Rights and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Totonicapán in Guatemala." In The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development, edited by Sumudu A. Atapattu, Carmen G. Gonzalez, and Sara L. Seck. Cabridge University Press.
Ferreira, Patrícia Galvão. 2018 “Differentiation in International Environmental Law.” In Global Environmental Change and Innovation Law, edited by Neil Craik, et al. SSRN
Ferreira, Patrícia Galvão. 2018. "Canada's Contribution to International Climate Finance: The Right Direction, a Long Way to Go." Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 32(1): 75-97. MU Affiliates
Ferreira, Patrícia Galvão. 2016."‘Common But Differentiated Responsibilities’ in the National Courts: Lessons from Urgenda v. The Netherlands." Transnational Environmental Law 5(2): 329-351. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2047102516000248 | MU Affiliates
Rights for Robots by
Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice on animal rights and the rights of nature to assess the status of robots. Through extensive philosophical and legal analyses, the book explores how rights can be applied to nonhuman entities. This task is completed by developing a framework useful for determining the kinds of personhood for which a nonhuman entity might be eligible, and a critical environmental ethic that extends moral and legal consideration to nonhumans. The framework and ethic are then applied to two hypothetical situations involving real-world technology--animal-like robot companions and humanoid sex robots. Additionally, the book approaches the subject from multiple perspectives, providing a comparative study of legal cases on animal rights and the rights of nature from around the world and insights from structured interviews with leading experts in the field of robotics. Ending with a call to rethink the concept of rights in the Anthropocene, suggestions for further research are made. An essential read for scholars and students interested in robot, animal and environmental law, as well as those interested in technology more generally, the book is a ground-breaking study of an increasingly relevant topic, as robots become ubiquitous in modern society. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ISBN, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights by
Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions. Interestingly, these countries vary widely in terms of geography, politics, history, resources, and wealth. This raises the question: why do some countries have constitutional environmental rights while others do not? Bringing together theory from law, political science, and sociology, a global statistical analysis, and a comparative study of constitutional design in South Asia, Gellers presents a comprehensive response to this important question. Moving beyond normative debates and anecdotal developments in case law, as well as efforts to describe and categorize such rights around the world, this book provides a systematic analysis of the expansion of environmental rights using social science methods and theory. The resulting theoretical framework and empirical evidence offer new insights into how domestic and international factors interact during the constitution drafting process to produce new law that is both locally relevant and globally resonant. Scholars, practitioners, and students of law, political science, and sociology interested in understanding how institutions cope with complex problems like environmental degradation and human rights violations will find this book to be essential reading.
Gellers, Joshua C. 2020. Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429288159
Gellers, Joshua C. 2017. The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights. Routledge. Routledge.com
Gellers, Joshua C. 2020. "Earth System Law and the Legal Status of Non-Humans in the Anthropocene." Earth System Governance: 100083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2020.100083
Gellers, Joshua C. and Chris Jeffords. 2019. "Environmental Rights in the Asia Pacific Region: Taking Stock and Assessing Impacts." Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law 22 (2): 190-206. https://doi.org/10.4337/apjel.2019.02.01
Gellers, Joshua C. and Chris Jeffords. 2019. "Environmental Determinants of Chinese Development Finance in Africa." The Journal of Environment & Development 28 (2): 111-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/1070496518825282
Gellers, Joshua C., and Chris Jeffords. 2018. “Toward Environmental Democracy? Procedural Environmental Rights and Environmental Justice.” Global Environmental Politics 18 (1): 99–121. https://doi.org/10.1162/GLEP_a_00445 | MU Affiliates
Jeffords, Chris, and Joshua C. Gellers. 2017. "Constitutionalizing Environmental Rights: A Practical Guide." Journal of Human Rights Practice 9(1): 136–145. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/hux001 | MU Affiliates
Gellers, Joshua C. 2016. "The Great Indoors: Linking Human Rights and the Built Environment." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 7 (2): 243-261. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2016.02.03
Jeffords, Chris, and Joshua C. Gellers. 2018. "Implementing Substantive Constitutional Environmental Rights: A Quantitative Assessment of Current Practice Using Benchmark Rankings." In Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism: Current Global Challenges, 34-58, edited by Erin Daly and James R. May. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Herrington, Michele M., Deepak Anne C, Herrington Thomas. "Assessment of the Effectiveness of Structured and Unstructured Community Groups in the Co-production of Actionable Science with Boundary Organizations." AGU 2019 Fall Meeting; 2019 December 09; San Francisco, CA. agu.confex.com
Herrington T.O., Kumari-Drapkin J., Harrington S. Boundary Organizations and Coproduction: Ocean City Residents Map Flood Risks with ISeeChange and Monmouth University. AGU 2019 Fall Meeting; 2019 December 09; San Francisco, CA. agu.confex.com
Herrington T.O., Hornick S., Wilkins S., Festing H. Empowering local community organizations to engage with community decision makers for the application of science-based hazard mitigation through science-community partnerships: A Thriving Earth Exchange case study. AGU 2018 Fall Meeting; 2018 December 10; Washington, DC. agu.confex.com
Herrington, Thomas O. 2017. "Coastal Hazards and Mitigation Techniques." In Blue Dunes - Climate Change by Design, 93-100, edited by Jesse Keenan and Claire Weisz. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. arch.columbia.edu
Walling, Katlin, Thomas O. Herrington, and Jon K. Miller. 2016. “Hurricane Sandy Damage Comparison: Oceanfront Houses Protected by a Beach and Dune System with vs. without a Rock Seawall.” Shore & Beach 84(3): 35–41. MU Affiliates
Climate Refugees in South Asia: Protection Under International Legal Standards and State Practices in South Asia by Jolly, Stellina, and Abhishek Trivedi. “Principle of CBDR-RC, Its Interpretation and Implementation through NDCs in the Context of Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities.” Washington Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (forthcoming).
Jolly, Stellina, and K.S. Roshan Menon. 2021. "“Of Ebbs and Flows : Understanding the Legal Consequences of Granting Personhood to Natural Entities in India.” Transnational Environmental Law, 1-26.
Jolly, Stellina. 2020. “UN Human Rights Committee on Climate Displacement: Legal Reflections.” Public Jurist (Government and Laws Committee Hong Kong University Faculty of Law) 3:7.
Jolly, Stellina. 2021."The Vedanta (Niyamgiri) Case: Promoting Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development." In The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development, 289-302, edited by Sumudu Atapattu, Carmen Gonzalez, and Sara L. Seck. Cambridge University Press. cambridge.org
Jolly, Stellina, and Abishek Trivedi. 2019. “Implementing the SDG-13 through International Law: A Legal Overview with an Emphasis on Climate-Induced Displacement.” Brill Open Law pp.69-100. https://doi.org/10.1163/23527072-20191016
Jolly, Stellina. 2018. " A Legal Analysis of Linking Human Right Approach to Access to Water and Sharing of Trans-Boundary Rivers in South Asia." In Shifting Horizons of Public International Law. Springer. Springer.com
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Ah-Young Cho and John Leitner and Jae-Hyup Lee, "Korea's Access and Benefit Sharing Regime: The Nayoga Protocol, Domestic Legislation, and Future Steps." Journal of Korean Law 17 (2): 217-232. MU Affiliates
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Kelsey Leonard
Leonard, Kelsey. "WAMPUM Adaptation Framework: Eastern Coastal Tribal Nations and Sea Level Rise Impacts on Water Security." Climate and Development ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2020.1862739
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Robison, Jason, Barbara Cosens, Sue Jackson, Kelsey Leonard, and Daniel McCool. 2018. "Indigenous Water Justice." Lewis & Clark Law Review 22 (3): 841. MU Affiliates | PDF
Díaz Ríos, Claudia, Michelle L. Dion, and Kelsey Leonard. "Institutional Logics and Indigenous Research Sovereignty in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand." Studies in Higher Education 45, no. 2 (02, 2020): 403-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2018.1534228
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Environmental Rights by
Environmental rights, also known as the human rights or constitutional rights that are used for the protection of the environment, have proliferated over the last forty-five years. However, the precise levels of protection that they represent has since been a major question associated with this phenomenon. Environmental Rights: The Development of Standards systematically investigates this question by analyzing the emerging standards of environmental protection that are associated with such rights and the way that those associations are becoming formalized. It covers all of the relevant human rights treaties to illustrate how environmental rights standards are emerging in this dynamic area. Bringing together an elite group of scholars, this book discusses significant new insights into the way that environmental rights are developing, the standards of protection that they confer, and the way that standards in the field of environmental rights can potentially be further developed in the future.
Dignity Law: Global Recognition, Cases, And Perspectives by
Human dignity recognizes the equal worth of every member of the human family, regardless of gender, race, social or political status, talents, merit, or any other differentiator. But it is also a right that can be claimed, like liberty, equality, shelter or free speech. It is now recognized in more than 160 constitutions around the world. Increasingly, courts from all legal and cultural traditions are recognizing the right to dignity and applying it against governments and others to ensure that the dignity of all is respected. This unique casebook provides an introduction to the emergent and dynamic law of human dignity, showcasing how the value of human dignity is permeating all areas of law, how the right to have one’s dignity respected is shaping the development of the law, how dignity rights are embodied constitutionally around the globe.
Global Environmental Constitutionalism by
Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to healthy air, water and land, and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights. This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a proper subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts. This phenomenon, which the authors call environmental constitutionalism, represents the confluence of constitutional law, international law, human rights and environmental law. National apex and constitutional courts are exhibiting a growing interest in environmental rights, and as courts become more aware of what their peers are doing, this momentum is likely to increase. This book explains why such provisions came into being, how they are expressed, and the extent to which they have been, and might be, enforced judicially. It is a singular resource for evaluating the content of and hope for constitutional environmental rights.
Human Rights and the Environment by
Much has been written, discussed, advocated and litigated about human rights and the environment over the last two decades. With 45 structured entries from a global collection of expert scholars, this volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law provides an authoritative source of reference and features new commentary on the role of the rule of law in responding to the variegated impacts of environmental challenges on the human condition.This comprehensive volume offers fresh perspectives to the conversation by focusing especially on four subjects that shed new light on the subject of environmental human rights: the challenges of identifying the fundamental legal sources for the protection of human rights and the environment, the recognition of the indivisibility of human rights and environmental law, the centrality of the right to human dignity as the lodestar of human rights law, and the uniqueness of geographic particularities. Fundamentally, the entries demonstrate that there is much to do, learn and share on this vital topic.Offering thoughtful critical perspectives on a timely subject, this volume will be an essential resource for academics and students, as well as policymakers and practitioners.
Shale Gas and the Future of Energy by
The rapid growth of shale gas development has led to an intense and polarizing debate about its merit. This book asks and suggests answers to the question that has not yet been systematically analysed: what laws and policies are needed to ensure that shale gas development helps to accelerate the transition to sustainability?In this groundbreaking book, more than a dozen experts in policy and academia assess the role that sustainability plays in decisions concerning shale gas development in the US and elsewhere, offering legal and policy recommendations for developing shale gas in a manner that accelerates the transition to sustainability. Contributors assess good practices from Pennsylvania to around the planet, discussing how these lessons translate to other jurisdictions. Ultimately, the book concludes that major changes in law and policy are needed to develop shale gas sustainably.Policymakers and educators alike will find this book to be a valuable resource, as it tackles the technical, social, economic and legal aspects associated with this sustainability issue. Other strengths are its clear language and middle-ground policy perspective that will make Shale Gas and the Future of Energy accessible to both students and the general public.
Daly, Erin and James R. May. 2019. Compendium of Global Environmental Constitutionalism: Selected Cases and Materials. United Nations Environment Programme (UNE). unece.org
May, James R. 2017. "Subnational Environmental Constitutionalism and Reform in New York State." Pace Law Review 38(1)): 121-150. MU Affiliates | SSRN
May, James R., and Erin Daly. 2019. "Human Dignity and Environmental Outcomes in Pakistan." Pakistan Law Review, 10: 1-28. MU Affiliates | SSRN
May, James R., and Tiwajopelo Dayo. 2019. "Dignity and Environmental Justice in Nigeria: The Case of Gbemre v. Shell." Widener Law Review, 25(2): 269-284. MU Affiliates | SSRN
Daly, Erin, and James R. May. 2019. "Exploring Environmental Justice through the Lens of Human Dignity." Widener Law Review, 25(2): 177-194. MU Affiliates | SSRN
Muñoz-Ávila, L. 2020. "La cooperación para la democracia ambiental entre los países de América Latina y el Caribe." En Prieur, M.; Sozzo, G. y Nápoli, A. (ed.), Acuerdo de Escazú : hacia la democracia ambiental en América Latina y el Caribe. (págs. 280-287). Editorial Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
Muñoz-Ávila, L. 2020. "Cambio climático, participación y pandemia." Voces por el Clima [Fundación Heinrich Böll], (2020), 7 – 9.
Donges, L., Stolpe, F., Sperfeld, F., Kovac, S., Muñoz-Ávila, L., Rojas Laserna, M., Pérez Álvarez, P., Senior Serrano, S., Lozano Amaya, A. y Sánchez Quintero, A. 2020. Espacio cívico para la participación en las políticas climáticas en Colombia.Instituto Independiente de Asuntos ambientales (UfU e.V.) y Facultad de Jurisprudencia. Berlín. www.ufu.de
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Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets by
Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets analyses the topical and contentious issue of the critical intersections between local content requirements (LCRs) and the implementation of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, South America, Australasia and the Middle East While LCRs generally aim to boost domestic value creation and economic growth, inappropriately designed LCRs could produce negative social, human rights and environmental outcomes, and a misalignment of a country's fiscal policies and global sustainable development goals. These unintended outcomes may ultimately serve as disincentive to foreign participation in a country's energy market. This book outlines the guiding principles of a sustainable and rights-based approach - focusing on transparency, accountability, gender justice and other human rights issues - to the design, application and implementation of LCRs in global energy markets to avoid misalignments.
Extractives Industry Law in Africa by
The book provides a systematic examination of the legal, fiscal and institutional frameworks for the commercial development of petroleum and solid mineral resources in Africa. First, it considers the values, assumptions, and guiding principles underpinning legislation and governance in Africa’s extractive sector. It then provides detailed and comparative evaluations of regulatory frameworks, pricing, local content, procurement, sales, and contractual arrangements across African extractive industries.
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance by
This book analyses the topical and contentious issue of the human rights impacts associated with carbon projects, especially in developing countries. It outlines a human rights-based approach to carbon finance as a functional framework for mainstreaming human rights into the design, approval, finance and implementation of carbon projects. It also describes the nature and scope of carbon projects, the available legal options for their financing and the key human rights issues at stake in their planning and execution. Written in a user-friendly style, the proposal for a rights-based due diligence framework through which human rights issues can be anticipated and addressed makes this book relevant to all stakeholders in carbon, energy, and environmental investments and projects.
Olawuyi, Damilola S. 2020. "Energy Poverty in the Middle East and North African (MENA) Region: Divergent Tales and Future Prospects." In Energy Law and Energy Justice, edited by Inigo Del Guayo, Lee Godden, Donald N. Zillman, Milton Fernando Montoya, & Jose Juan Gonzalez, 254-272. Oxford University Press. Oxford
Olawuyi, Damilola S. 2020. "Can MENA Extractive Industries Support the Global Energy Transition? Current Opportunities and Future Directions." The Extractive Industries and Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.02.003 | MU Affiliates
Scherch, Jonathan M. 2014. "New Roots for Sustainable Development: Bamboo Resources and Triple Bottom Line Performance in Alabama''s Black Belt Region." The International Journal of Sustainability in Economic, Social, and Cultural Context 9 (2): 61-78.
Gaps in International Environmental Law by
The United Nations has set in motion a process to discuss and potentially reach agreement on a Global Pact for the Environment. This book informs those discussions, providing a deep dive into the challenges that characterize international environmental law today as well as the necessary background on the past five decades during which these frameworks were created. The book also describes contemporary negotiations about how, and even whether, to clarify and strengthen the norms that guide us today. By providing a clear picture of the competing trajectories of the current state of the law and our environment, this book equips readers with the knowledge and confidence to shape the future evolution of international environmental law.
Regional Cooperation in Amazonia by
In Regional Cooperation in Amazonia: A Comparative Environmental Law Analysis, Maria Antonia Tigre provides a broad overview of the international, regional and national law applied to the Amazon rainforest and investigates efforts at regional cooperation for the protection of the Amazonian ecosystem. For the last four decades, cooperation among the eight countries in which the rainforest lies was primarily induced by the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT). Originally adopted to ensure national sovereignty, the ACT gradually evolved towards a framework for sustainable development. Based on the challenges faced by the treaty and its subsequent instruments, Maria Antonia Tigre analyzes ways in which the ACT can be more effectively applied, leading to practical results that reduce deforestation. These specifically relate to the enforceability of the right to the environment, the implementation of protected areas, and the development of financial mechanisms to fund initiatives.
Tigre, Maria Antonia, and Natalia Urzola Gutierrez. 2021. "The 2017 Inter-American Court's Advisory Opinion: Changing the Paradigm for International Environmental Law in the Anthropocene." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 12(1).
Tigre, Maria Antonia, and Sarah C. Slinger. 2020. "A Voice in the Development of Amazonia: The Constitutional Rights to Participation of Indigenous Peoples." In Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics, 7-37, edited by Walter Leal Filho; Victor T King; Ismar Borges de Lima. Springer. springer.com
Tigre, Maria Antonia, and Victoria Lichet. 2020. "Update on Negotiation of a New International Environmental Agreement." Environmental Law Reporter, 50(10): 10818-10825. https://heinonline-org.ezproxy.monmouth.edu/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/elrna50&i=748. MU Affiliates
Tigre, Maria Antonia, and Victoria Lichet. 2020. "Update on Negotiation of a New International Environmental Agreement." Environmental Law Reporter 50(10): 10818-10825. MU Affiliates | ELR
Tigre, Maria Antonia. 2019. "Implementing Constitutional Environmental Rights in the Amazon Rainforest." In Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism: Current Global Challenges, 59-83, edited by Erin Daly and James R. May. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jean-Baptiste, Rachel, Randall S. Abate, Maria Antonia Tigre, Patricia Ferreira, Wil Burns. 2017. Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis, 47(12), 11003-11004. MU Affiliates
Tigre, Maria Antonia. 2016. "Cooperation for Climate Mitigation in Amazonia: Brazil's Emerging Role as a Regional Leader." Transnational Environmental Law, 5(2): 401-426. MU Affiliates
Tigre, Maria Antonia. "Brazil's First Climate Case to Reach the Supreme Court." OpinioJuris (blog). October 13, 2020. opiniojuris.org
Tigre, Maria Antonia and Natalia Urzola. "Developing Brazilian Jurisprudence on the Right to a Healthy Environment." The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) (blog). December 17, 2020. gnhre.org
Tigre, Maria Antonia and Victoria Lechet. "The Human Rights Council Urges State to Realize the Rights of the Child Through a Healthy Environment." The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) (blog). October 19. 2020. gnhre.org
Tigre, Maria Antonia, and Alex Goodman. "ADPF708 / Climate Fund. What to Expect from Brazil's First Public Hearing on Climate Policy?" The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) (blog). September 22, 2020. gnhre.org
Tigre, Maria Antonia. "Inter-American Commission Calls on the Brazilian Government to Take Measures to Protect Indigenous Communities from COVID-19." The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) (blog). July 31, 2020. gnhre.org
Tigre, Maria Antonia. "Lhaka Honhat Association vs. Argentina: The Human Right to Environment in the Inter-American Court." The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) (blog). April 10, 2020. gnhre.org
Tigre, Maria Antonia. "How is COVID-19 Affecting Amazonia? Violations to Human Rights and the Environment." Voelkerrechtsblog (blog). August 10, 2020. voelkerrechtsblog.org/
Tigre, Maria Antonia. "Inter-American Court of Human Rights Recognizes the Right to a Healthy Environment." ASIL Insights (blog). June 2. 2020. asil.org
Tigre, Maria Antonia. "Inter-American Court Recognizes the Right to a Healthy Environment of Indigenous Peoples in the First Contentious Case." IUCN-WCEL (blog). May 4, 2020.
"Episonde 13: Featuring Maria Antonia Tigre." February 24. 2021. Common Home Conversations Beyond UN75 (The Planetary Press). Podcast audio. theplanetarypress.com
"Toward A Global Pact for the Environment." July 29, 2020. People Places Planet Podcast (ELI). Environmental Law Institute
