Impact of Environmental Law

Edited by Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, University of Cebu, Philippines, Elizabeth A. Kirk, Professor Emerita, School of Law, University of Lincoln, UK and Jessica Steinberg Albin, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University, US

• Contents:List of contributors viForeword: Changing the Story by Antonio Oposa, Jr. viiiAcknowledgements x1 Introduction: the need to rethink environmental laws 1Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, Elizabeth A. Kirk and Jessica Steinberg Albin2 Getting the lead out: the phase-out of gasoline lead additives – a global environmental success story 8Robert V. Percival3 Caring for our oceans and their biodiversity 30Trevor Daya-Winterbottom4 The Charter of the Forest: evolving human rights in nature 54Nicholas A. Robinson5 Implementation of obligations for wetland and waterfowl conservation under the Ramsar Convention: lessons and options at the Sakumo Lagoon, Ghana 75David Estrin, Freedom-Kai Phillips and Theodore Nsoe Adimazoya6 Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in law and policy: prospects for transformative flood risk management in Australia 100Anita Foerster7 Public housing in Singapore: a success story in sustainable development 128Lye Lin-Heng8 A perfect storm: how China’s Taizhou case marks the beginning of a new era of environmental enforcement 154Amy Pickering and Yanmei LinIndex 174

'This uplifting compilation of environmental law success stories from all over the world offers hope, guidance, and inspiration - a welcome antidote to the paralyzing despair that pervades so many conversations about our increasingly damaged planet.'--Carmen G. Gonzalez, Seattle University School of Law, US