International Environmental Law and the Global South

Shawkat Alam is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University, Sydney. An expert on international environmental law, he is the author of Sustainable Development and Free Trade (2008). Sumudu Atapattu is Associate Director of the Global Legal Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School and lead counsel for human rights at the Center for International Sustainable Development Law, Montreal. Her book, Emerging Principles of International Environmental Law, was published in 2006. Carmen G. Gonzalez is a Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. A widely published author on the subject of international environmental justice, she is a member of the Board of Trustees of Earthjustice and co-chair of the Research Committee of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law. Jona Razzaque is a Professor of Environmental Law at Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, where she specializes in the intersection of human rights and the environment. Her most recent book is Environmental Governance in Europe and Asia (2012).

• Foreword Christopher Weeramantry; 1. The North-South divide in international environmental law: framing the issues Sumudu Atapattu and Carmen G. Gonzalez; Part I. History of the North-South Divide and Global Environmental Governance: 2. History of the North-South divide in international law: colonial discourses, sovereignty and self-determination M. Rafiqul Islam; 3. Unsustainable development Ruth Gordon; 4. The significance of international environmental law principles in reinforcing or dismantling the North-South divide Sumudu Atapattu; 5. The Stockholm conference and the creation of the South-North divide in international environmental law and policy Karin Mickelson; 6. Global environmental governance and the South Ved P. Nanda; 7. Quest for international environmental institutions: transition from CSD to HLPF Bharat H. Desai and Balraj K. Sidhu; Part II. Selected International Environmental Law Examples: 8. Human rights, the environment and the global South Louis J. Kotzé; 9. Access and benefit sharing: North-South challenges in implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Nagoya Protocol Jorge Cabrera Medaglia; 10. Emerging powerful Southern voices: role of BASIC nations in shaping climate change mitigation commitments Rowena Maguire and Xiaoyi Jiang; 11. Sustainable development in the era of bioenergy and agricultural land grab Chidi Oguamanam; 12. Trade in hazardous waste Zada Lipman; 13. The right to water: constitutional perspectives from the global South Carlos Bernal; Part III. Trade, Investment, and Sustainable Development: 14. Trade and the environment: perspectives from the global South Shawkat Alam; 15. From a divided heritage to a common future? International investment law, human rights and sustainable development Shyami Puvimanasinghe; 16. Project finance and sustainable development in the global South Shalanda H. Baker; 17. International environmental law and sovereign wealth funds Benjamin J. Richardson; 18. Transnational corporations and extractive industries Sara L. Seck; Part IV. Environmental Justice and Vulnerable Groups: 19. Food justice: an environmental justice critique of the global food system Carmen G. Gonzalez; 20. A justice paradox: climate change, small island developing states, and the absence of international legal remedy Maxine Burkett; 21. South of South: examining the international climate regime from an indigenous perspective Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner; 22. Water wars: anti-privatization struggles in the global South Jackie Dugard and Elisabeth Koek; 23. Natural disaster and climate change Paul Govind and Robert R. M. Verchick; 24. International law, cultural diversity, and the environment: the case of the general forestry law in Colombia Daniel Bonilla Maldonado; 25. The contours of energy justice Lakshman Guruswamy; Part V. Challenges and Options: 26. South-South cooperation: foundations for sustainable development Koh Kheng-Lian and Nicholas A. Robinson; 27. Public participation in international negotiation and compliance Lalanath de Silva; 28. Access to remedies in environmental matters and the North-South divide Jona Razzaque; 29. Sustainable development versus green economy: the way forward? Shawkat Alam and Jona Razzaque.

'This is a richly superb book. It is the first systematic exploration of the closely entwined relationship between environmental, economic and human rights issues in a North-South context. It adopts a historical and critical approach and authoritatively moves discussions of international environmental law and policy beyond a state-centric framework. It gives voice to perspectives and issues from the global South including the challenges of accountability of non-state actors and addresses how these challenges could be resolved. In short, it is one of the most important new contributions to international environmental law and policy scholarship in the last few decades.' James T. Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law