Courts and the environment

• Courts and the Environment: An Introduction

Part 1: Conceptualizing the Role of Courts in Protecting the Environment

• Chapter 1 - The Nature of Courts
• Chapter 2 - Bridging the Gap Between Aspiration and Outcomes: the Role of the Court in Ensuring Ecologically Sustainable Development
• Chapter 3 - The Legitimate Role of Rights-Based Approaches to Environmental Conflict Resolution

Part 2: Taking the Lead: the Court as Trailblazer for Environmental Protection

• Chapter 4 - Ghana's Courts and Environmental Rule of Law
• Chapter 5 - Activity of the Brazilian Judiciary in the Amazon and Cerrado Biomes Aimed at Combating Global Warming
• Chapter 6 - Procedural and Substantive Innovations Propounded by the Indian Judiciary in Balancing Protection of Environment and Development: a Legal Analysis

Part 3: Access to Justice for the Environment

• Chapter 7 - Inviting Civil Society to the Table: the Case of the African Commission
• Chapter 8 - Collective Environmental Litigation in Colombia: an Empirical Assessment
• Chapter 9 - Are Courts Colour Blind to Country? Indigenous Cultural Heritage, Environmental Law and the Australian Judicial System
• Chapter 10 - What Chinese Courts Could Learn from the USA: the Approach of Public Interest Litigation Under the New China Environmental Protection Law
• Chapter 11 - Protection of Environmental Rights of Citizens in the Courts of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine

Part 4: Courts in Action

• Chapter 12 - The Challenge of Bringing Transnational Corporation to Justice for Environmental Damage: a Case Study of Texaco Oil Company and Chevron vs Lago Agrio Plaintiffs
• Chapter 13 - Enhancing Corporate Responsibilities to Fulfil the Right to a Clean Environment: a Lesson Learned from Indonesian Courts
• Chapter 14 - The Urgenda Case: a Successful Example of Public Interest Litigation for the Protection of the Environment?
• Chapter 15 - US Climate Change Adjudication: the Epic Journey From a Petition for Rulemaking to National Greenhouse Gas Regulation
• Chapter 16 - A Review of Environmental Courts and Tribunals for CSO's and the Judiciary
• Chapter 17 - Swedish Environmental Courts - Specialized Civil and Administrative Courts
• Index