Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to healthy air, water, and land and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights. This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a proper subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts. This phenomenon, which the authors call environmental constitutionalism, represents the confluence of constitutional law, international law, human rights, and environmental law. National apex and constitutional courts are exhibiting a growing interest in environmental rights, and as courts become more aware of what their peers are doing, this momentum is likely to increase. This book explains why such provisions came into being, how they are expressed, and the extent to which they have been, and might be, enforced judicially. It is a singular resource for evaluating the content of and hope for constitutional environmental rights.

En La tutela judicial frente al daño ambiental colectivo el autor se propone someter a prueba la aptitud de los ordenamientos jurídicos de Argentina y España para abordar una pretensión de tutela ambiental colectiva. Realiza entonces un análisis comparativo partiendo de la siguiente premisa: la inadecuación de las normas procesales afecta no sólo al acceso a la jurisdicción sino también a la justicia ambiental misma, considerada desde una visión multidimensional (Schlosberg, 2009). Con este cometido, el texto repasa la normativa supranacional dedicada al derecho de acceso a la justicia ambiental —incluyendo el recientemente adoptado Acuerdo de Escazú— y revisa los sistemas de tutela desde la normativa, la doctrina y la jurisprudencia. El autor concluye su obra con consideraciones críticas y propuestas de modificación legislativa, las que entiende necesarias para una adecuada tutela del ambiente, y de los intereses difusos en general, en un contexto de conflictividad global creciente.

This book contains a selection of papers on various legal issues of interest to developing countries which have been prepared by Fellows from InWent who came to Germany between 2002 and 2004 from Africa, Asia, and Latin America to research and write about subjects of their choice at the IUCN Environmental Law Centre.

This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.

The understanding that some pesticides are more hazardous than others is well established. Recognition of this is reflected by the World Health Organization (WHO) Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard, which was first published in 1975. The document classifies pesticides in one of five hazard classes according to their acute toxicity. In 2002, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was introduced, which in addition to acute toxicity also provides classification of chemicals according to their chronic health hazards and environmental hazards.