Comparative Environmental Law

Edited by Tseming Yang, Santa Clara University School of Law, Anastasia Telesetsky, California Polytechnic State University, USA and Sara K. Phillips, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

• ContentsForeword xivxiiiPART I Overview1 Introduction to Comparative Environmental Law 2Tseming Yang, Anastasia Telesetsky and Sara K. Phillips2 A comparative environmental law primer 8Tseming YangPART II Planning and sustainability3 Project-based environmental impact assessment: comparative study and projected trends 35Krittika Singh, Timo Koivurova, Katri-Maaria Kyllönen and Pamela Lesser4 Strategic environmental assessment in environmental law: a comparative perspective 59Evan Hamman and Jill Blakley5 Information disclosure as a pollution management tool: pollution release and transfer registries 81Rónán Kennedy6 Comparative urban sustainable development law and governance and the urban commons 103Hoi L. KongPART III Rights-based frameworks7 Environmental human rights: a critical comparative view 119James R. May8 Access to environmental information under international law 148Rebecca Bratspies9 Environmental law and policy and Indigenous peoples 169Heather Tanana and Elisabeth Parker10 Rights of nature: time for a next generation normative paradigm shift? 193Anastasia Telesetsky PART IV Accountability11 Compliance and enforcement 668Lee Paddock12 Comparative environmental criminal law 689Michael Faure13 Specialist environmental courts and tribunals 714Ceri Warnock14 A comparative study of environmental public interest litigation 736Yanmei Lin and Juan ChuPART V Sectors15 Contaminated land 758Yuhong Zhao16 Energy transition and renewable energy law 777Hsing-Hao Wu and Hisako Takahashi17 Comparing approaches to water quality regulation 799Robin Kundis Craig18 Comparative Latin American and United States water law 818Peter L. Reich19 Mining law and governance: structures and challenges 837Sara K. Phillips20 Comparative food waste law and policy 864Carrie Bradshaw, Patricia Galvão-Ferreira and Heather McLeod-Kilmurray21 Biodiversity laws of the US and EU 895Madeline Kass22 Uniform and locally tailored emission standards in American and European air pollution law: the impact of historical regulatory traditions 915Noga Morag-Levine

‘This is an ambitious and necessary work at a time when environmental law is confronted with unprecedented global challenges.’