Environmental Law and Sustainability After Rio

Environmental Law and Sustainability After Rio

Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 23, Issue 3.

Edited by Jamie Benidickson, Ben Boer, Antonio Herman Benjamin and Karen Morrow

Edward Elgar PublishingCheltenham, Glouc.July 2011432 pp.ISBN 9780857932242£81.00

This book examines the development of environmental law in the period since the ground-breaking 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development or “Earth Summit”. The book demonstrates that a great deal has been achieved in the field of environmental law since the 1990s. However, the extraordinary environmental crises facing humanity in the twenty-first century indicate a continuing urgent need for the generation of robust policies and frameworks concerning ecological, socio-cultural and economic sustainability,implemented through appropriately innovative legal mechanisms.

The book is divided into five sub-themes of sustainability: history,principles and concepts, environmental rights, access to justice and liability issues, natural resources, energy and climate change and nature conservation.