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Environmental Law and Governance in the Pacific: Climate Change, Biodiversity and Communities

Environmental Law and Governance in the Pacific: Climate Change, Biodiversity and Communities

Author: Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh; Evan Hamman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367502898

Published In: August 2022
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9780367203245

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This volume examines environmental law and governance in the Pacific, focusing on the emerging challenges this region faces. The Pacific is home to some of the world’s most astonishing biological and cultural diversity. At the same time, Pacific Island nations are economically and technically under-resourced in the face of tremendous environmental challenges. Destructive weather events, ocean acidification, mining, logging, overfishing, and pollution increasingly degrade ecosystems and affect fishing, farming, and other cultural practices of Pacific Islanders. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to understand and analyse the role of law and governance in responding to these pressures in the Pacific. Drawing on academic and practitioner expertise from the Pacific region, as well as Europe and the United States, this unique collection navigates the major environmental law and governance challenges of the present and future of the Pacific. Environmental Law and Governance in the Pacific discusses 21 Pacific Island countries and territories, including Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Samoa, and a broad range of themes, such as deep-sea mining, wetlands and mangroves, heritage, endangered species, human rights, and access to justice, are addressed, thus providing a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of environmental law and governance within specific jurisdictions as well as across the Pacific region as a whole.

This volume will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in environmental law and governance in the Pacific region, as well as policy-makers, practitioners and NGOs involved in the development and implementation of environmental law and policy.

Part 1 Overview and Context　　

1. Introduction

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh and Evan Hamman

2. Environmental Law in the Context of Legal Pluralism

Sue Farran　

Part 2 Climate Change

3. Climate Change Law in the Pacific Islands

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh and Sarah Mead　

4. Traditional Customary Law Responding to Climate Change

Kirsten Davies

5. Customary Land in Pacific Island Countries: Laws and Threats

Joseph Foukona