Edward Elgar Publishing Regional Environmental Law: Transregional Comparative Lessons in Pursuit of Sustainable Development (New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series)

Product Description The core focus of this timely volume is to ascertain how regional environmental law may contribute to the pursuit of global sustainable development. Leading scholars critically analyse the ways in which states may pool sovereignty to find solutions to environmental problems, presenting a comparative legal analysis of the manner in which the AU, EU, OAS and ASEAN deal with the issues of climate change, human rights and the environment. Review '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 into the further development of environmental law from a sustainable development perspective.' --- Marjan Peeters, Univeristy of Maastricht, the Netherlands About the Author 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