Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global South

Contents:

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global
South xvi
Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan

PART I QUESTIONING THE CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT AND
SUSTAINABILITY
1 Intergenerational justice, water rights, and climate change 2
Upendra Baxi
2 Justice, development and sustainability in the Anthropocene 14
Sam Adelman
3 Neoliberalism, law and nature 32
Larry Lohmann
4 Radical well-being alternatives to development 64
Ashish Kothari

PART II ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
AND ACCESS TO REMEDIES
5 Environmental rights in the Global South 86
Louis J. Kotze and Evadne Grant
6 North-South transboundary movement of hazardous wastes - the Basel Ban
and environmental justice 109
Julia Dehm and Adil Hasan Khan
7 The Bhopal case: retrospect and prospect 138
Usha Ramanathan

PART III LAND USE, ACQUISITION AND DISPOSSESSION
8 Land rights, poverty, and livelihoods: the case of Ethiopia 147
Brightman Gebremichael
9 Wildlife conservation and land rights in Kenya: competing or
complementary agendas? 169
Patricia Kameri-Mbote
10 Land-grabs and dispossession in India: laws of value 190
Preeti Sampat

PART IV FORESTS: A CONTESTED RESOURCE OR COMMODITY
11 Environmental impact assessment in the context of mangrove forest
ecosystem management in Bangladesh: a case study of Rampal coal
power plant project 207
Jona Razzaque
12 Forests, people and poverty: failing to reform the global development
paradigm 231
Feja Lesniewska
13 Access to and control over forest resources - the case of the Forest
Rights Act, 2006 in India 249
Shankar Gopalakrishnan

PART V INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: RESOURCE USE, CONSERVATION,
LIVELIHOODS AND RIGHTS
14 Forest rights and tribals in mineral rich areas of India: the Vedanta case
and beyond 272
Geetanjoy Sahu
15 Conservation and livelihoods: conflicts or convergence? 286
CR Bijoy

PART VI ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
16 International energy policy for development: human rights and sustainable
development law imperatives 305
Thoko Kaime
17 Nuclear energy and liability: an environmental perspective 322
Saurabh Bhattacharjee

PART VII WATER: PRIVATISATION, DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN
RIGHTS
18 Realisation of the right to water: lessons from South Africa 348
Michael Kidd
19 Dams and displacement: the case of the Sardar Sarovar Project, India 371
Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly
20 Wastewater reuse in irrigated agriculture in urban and peri-urban India:
a farmers' rights perspective 396
Lovleen Bhullar

PART VIII COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USE OF RESOURCES
AND EQUITY
21 Mining, development and environment in India 413
Felix Padel and Malvika Gupta
22 Environment impact assessment in India: contestations over regulating
development 435
Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli
23 The informal waste sector: 'surplus' labour, detritus, and the right to the
post-colonial city 452
Kaveri Gill

Index 477

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Environmental law; global South; environmental justice; environmental rights; sustainable development; natural resources