Environmental oversight commonly assesses the environmental effects of activities and strives to minimize risks by imposing conditions on the operation of activities or even suppressing them. Environmental protection is however not the only standard of checking. Within administrative...

The deterioration of the environment in Central and Eastern Europe during the past fifty years has very often been linked to the communist regimes then in place. Indeed, in the region, the ideologically led attempts of governments to achieve industrial development and to glorify the role of work...

This paper deconstructs the relationship between harm and pollution, and argues that understanding this relationship creates valuable opportunities for improving environmental policy by minimizing or even eliminating the harm from some pollutants, even when reducing the total amount of pollution...

Environmental justice is a notion coined in the U.S. in an attempt to protect the environments of minorities whose neighbourhoods had been used to store hazardous waste. Attempts have been made to evolve this concept on a global scale to protect the environments of periphery nations around the...

Nearly every U.S. state has environmental provisions in its constitution. These provisions cover a wide range of issues concerning the manner in which the environment and natural resources are to be governed (e.g., public funding, eminent domain, public trust, access to water, legislative...

The concept of racial capitalism has been embraced by scholars and activists as a means of exploring the common roots of contemporary social and ecological crises. These include unprecedented environmental degradation, extreme economic inequality, the resurgence of authoritarian...

The history of environmental justice litigation in federal, state, and administrative courts illustrates how difficult it is to remedy intersectional harm using a single legal tool. In the United States, there is no federal “environmental justice law” that litigants can wield in court. The...

The argument that environmental standards must be harmonized among countries involved in free trade in order to ensure a quot;level playing fieldquot; has been prominent in the recent political discourse surrounding globalization and the expansion of international trade. Among academic...

This paper studies access to justice in China. It provides an in-depth case study of three decades of failed local activism to deal with environmental grievances. The paper finds that access to justice need not be a matter of choosing between justice from above or from below. Rather the patterns...

Les règlementations actuelles en matière d’environnement au niveau international, ne permettent pas pour l’instant l’adoption d’une politique globale cohérente et précise. Les grandes changements climatiques et aussi le développement de la technologie, sont les principaux dangers...