Environmental Governance and Sustainability

Citation

(2012), "Environmental Governance and Sustainability", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 23 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2012.08323daa.008

Environmental Governance and Sustainability

Environmental Governance and Sustainability

Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 23, Issue 4.

Edited by Paul Martin, Li Zhiping, Qin Tianbao, Anel Du Plessis and Yves Le BouthillierEdward Elgar PublishingCheltenhan, GlosFebruary 2012368 pp.ISBN 9781781000472£90.00

This volume provides insights into emerging developments in the field of legal governance of the environment at a time when environmental governance is increasingly concerned with far more than legal doctrine.

The expert contributors are concerned with the totality of arrangements through which power and resources are deployed to protect and restore natural resources, and how the costs and benefits of this are allocated. They explore key issues such as: how the community exercises its democratic rights; how government responds to the needs of current and future generations and balances the interests of the powerful with the powerless; the freedoms and responsibilities of commerce and the holders of property; and the ways in which laws and policies are informed by science and other perspectives. The various ways in which legal scholarship is pivotal to good governance are thus highlighted, as is the extent of innovation being generated by current ecological, economic and social challenges.