Edited by Werner Scholtz, Professor of Global Environmental Law, Head of School, Southampton Law School, University of Southampton, UK and Jonathan Verschuuren, Professor of International and European Environmental Law, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

• Contents:1. IntroductionWerner Scholtz and Jonathan VerschuurenPART ITHE AFRICAN UNION (AU) 2. Introduction to Regional Environmental Law of the African UnionHennie Strydom3. Africa and Climate Change: Legal Perspectives from the AUDaniel M. Pallangyo and Werner Scholtz4. Sustainable Development of SADC’s Watercourses: The IncoMaputo River Basin Agreement of 2002Michelle Barnard and Willem Daniël Lubbe 5. Human Rights and the Environment in the African Union ContextWerner ScholtzPART IITHE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS)6. Introduction to Environmental Law in the AmericasClaudia S. de Windt and Marcos A. Orellana7. The Contribution of the Inter-American Human Rights System to Sustainable DevelopmentAnna Meijknecht8. Sustainable Water Resource Management and the Amazon BasinBeatriz Garcia and Jorge Thierry CalasansPART III ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS (ASEAN)9. Introduction to ASEAN Regional Environmental LawBen Boer 10. ASEAN: The Singapore Declaration on Climate Change, Energy and the Environment, 2007 and BeyondKoh Kheng-Lian and Lovleen BhullarPART IVEUROPEAN UNION (EU) LAW 11. Introduction to European Union Environmental LawLudwig Krämer12. EU Climate Change Law: A Credible Example?Javier de Cendra de Larragán13. Contribution of the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights to Sustainable Development in EuropeJonathan Verschuuren14. A Comparative Analysis of the Legal Frameworks that Govern Europe’s Transboundary WatersOwen McIntyreIndex

‘Regional legal action to environmental problems has become increasingly important for national and international approaches. This important new study provides profound discussions of the state of affairs of regional approaches across the world and points at many remaining challenges regarding not only regulatory approaches, particularly in the field of transboundary waters and climate change, but also human rights instruments. It should be required reading by all interested in the further development of environmental law from a sustainable development perspective.’