Future of Environmental Law

Edited by Stefan E. Weishaar, Professor of Law and Economics and Kars J. de Graaf, Professor of Public Law and Sustainability, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

• Contents:1 Introduction to The Future of Environmental Law 1Kars J. de Graaf and Stefan E. WeishaarPART I THE PROFOUND ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW2 Governing the ocean in the Anthropocene era: area-basedmanagement as a tool to promote the socialisation of thelaw of the sea 14Vonintsoa Rafaly3 An insufficient tool for sustainable development:limitations of systemic integration under Article 31(3)(c)of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 30Kazuki Hagiwara4 The role of principles of international environmental lawin greening the interpretation of human rights: the case ofthe UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 49Megan DonaldPART II LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY5 The legal dimension of sustainability 66José Juan González Márquez6 Sustainable management: political slogan or legal norm? 85Trevor Daya-Winterbottom7 In doubt when in favour of nature? Taking scienceseriously in the Anthropocene epoch 104Mariana Coelho and Patryck Ayala8 The principle of reparation: why the polluter-paysprinciple does not suffice and how to rebuild the law onenvironmental damage 121Heloísa OliveiraPART III ENERGY9 Renewables under the scrutiny of international investmentlaw: the feed-in tariff 141Monika Feigerlová10 The proliferation of offshore renewable energy inEuropean seas: the regulatory challenges of emergingtechnologies for EU environmental law 158Nikolaos Giannopoulos11 Environmental litigation before regional economic courtsin Africa and Latin America 178Sonja Kahl12 The national green tribunal model to ensure environmentaljustice through collaboration 196Masrur Salekin13 People v Arctic Oil: Context, Judgment and Takeawaysfor Future Climate Litigation 215Suryapratim Roy and Alexandru GociuPART IV CASE STUDIES14 A major future challenge for environmental law: salinization 236Annalies Outhuijse, Tatia Brunings, and Ida Helene Groninga15 Bringing nature back to agricultural land: bridgingambition and reality in agri-environmental governance 252Edwin Alblas16 Groundwater relevance for Brazilian semiariddevelopment in the northeast: the need for protectiveenvironmental laws 271Jose Irivaldo Alves Oliveira SilvaIndex

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