Environmental law and sustainability after Rio / edited by Jamie Benidickson [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflecting on Rio : Environmental Law in the Coming Decades / Nicholas A. Robinson -- Capacity Building in Environmental Law in African Universities / Charles Odidi Okidi -- Local Agenda 21 : A Rights-based Approach to Local Environmental Governance / Anel du Plessis -- Brazilian Socioambientalismo and Environmental Justice / Fernanda de Salles Cavedon and Ricardo Stanziola Viera -- Risk Society and the Precautionary Principle / Miriam Alfie Cohen and Adrian de Garay Sanchez -- Measuring the Environment through Public Procurement / Nicola Lugaresi -- A Sustainable and Equitable Legal Order / Werner Scholtz -- The Courts and Public Participation in Environmental Decisionmaking / Karen Morrow -- Enchanced Access to Environmental Justice in Kenya / Robert Kibugi -- Towards a New Theory of Environmental Liability Without Proof of Damage / Jose Juan Gonzalez -- Diffuse Damages in Environmental Torts in Brazil / Arlindo Daibert -- Transboundary Aquifers : Towards Substantive and Process Reform in Treaty-making / Joseph W. Dellapenna and Flavia Rocha Loures -- Achieving Sustainability : Plant Breeders' and Farmers' Rights / Mekete Bekele Tekle -- International Law and Sustainable Energy : A Portrait of Failure / David Hodas -- Cross-border Gas Pipelines and Sustainability in Southern Africa / Willemien du Plessis -- Is EU Climate Change Policy Legally Robust? / Javier de Cendra de Larragan -- Combating Climate Change in Uganda / Emmanuel Kasimbazi -- Contractual Tools for Implementing the CBD in South Africa / Alexander Paterson -- Mangrove Swamps and Sustainability / Marcelo Nogueira Camargos and Solange Teles da Silva -- The Amazonian Treaty and Harmonisation of Environmental Legislation / Jose Augusto Fontoura Costa, Solange Teles da Silva, and Fernanda Sola.