LEADER 04670nam 22006494a 450 001 9910817733303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-92635-3 010 $a9786611926359 010 $a90-474-2045-4 024 7 $a10.1163/ej.9789004157835.i-380 035 $a(CKB)1000000000554547 035 $a(EBL)468122 035 $a(OCoLC)646789551 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000096438 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11119550 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096438 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10076539 035 $a(PQKB)11545827 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC468122 035 $a(OCoLC)141484511 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789047420453 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL468122 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10270814 035 $a(PPN)174400756 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000554547 100 $a20070607d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAccess to environmental justice$b[electronic resource] $ea comparative study /$fedited by Andrew Harding 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cMartinus Nijhoff Publishers$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (396 p.) 225 1 $aLondon-leiden series on law, administration and development ;$vv. 11 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a90-04-15783-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAccess to environmental justice : some introductory perspectives / Andrew Harding -- Access to environmental justice in Ghana (Accra) / James S. Read -- Access to environmental justice in India's Garden City (Bangalore) / Amanda Perry-Kessaris -- Access to environmental justice in Indonesia / Adriaan Bedner -- Access to environmental justice in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) / Andrew Harding and Azmi Sharom -- Access to Environmental justice in a politically unstable environment : a case study of Nepal / Surya Subedi -- Access to environmental justice : Karachi's urban poor and the law / Martin Lau --Towards a greener China? : accessing environmental justice in the People's Republic of China / Michael Palmer -- Access to environmental justice in the South West Pacific / Nicola Pain -- Access to environmental justice and public participation in Thailand / Thawilwadee Bureekul -- Access to environmental justice in United Kingdom law / Jean-Jacques Paradissis and Michael Purdue -- Access to environmental justice in the United States : embracing environmental and social concerns to achieve environmental justice / J. Mijin Cha. 330 $aAlthough it is commonly asserted that enhanced citizen participation results in better environmental policy and improved enforcement of environmental standards, this hypothesis has rarely been subject to testing on a comparative basis. The contributors to this book set out to study the extent to which citizens can and do exert influence over their urban environments through the legal (and extra-legal) 'gateways' in eleven countries spanning several continents as well as different climates, levels and type of economic development, and national legal and constitutional systems, as well as exhibiting a different set of environmental problems. One interviewee questioned about access to environmental justice, dryly remarked that in his city there was no environment, no justice and no access to either. Yet this view, as will be seen, requires to be nuanced. While few people will be surprised by the finding that legal gateways to environmental justice are largely ineffective, the reasons for this are revealing; but also the richness of detail and the comparisons between the different countries, and also the positive aspects which surfaced in several instances, were indeed both encouraging and sometimes surprising. This book presents the first comparative survey of access to environmental justice, and will be of considerable use to lawyers, policy-makers, activists and scholars who are concerned with the environmental issues which so profoundly affect and afflict our habitat and conditions of social justice throughout the world. 410 0$aLondon-Leiden series on law, administration, and development ;$vv. 11. 606 $aEnvironmental law 606 $aEnvironmental justice 606 $aEnvironmental policy 615 0$aEnvironmental law. 615 0$aEnvironmental justice. 615 0$aEnvironmental policy. 676 $a344.04/6 701 $aHarding$b Andrew$f1950-$0250233 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817733303321 996 $aAccess to environmental justice$94121257 997 $aUNINA