Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan (eds.): Research Handbook on Law, Environment, and the Global South

Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan (eds.) Research Handbook on Law, Environment, and the Global South: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, 529 Pages

The role of the Global South in the environmental law discourse is often reduced to laggards in international law-making and the target of global policy programmes such as the Sustainable Development Goals. Such an approach ignores not only the fundamental ethical considerations of equity, but also some forward-looking and sophisticated approaches to environmental governance originating from the Global South, such as the inclusion of the rights of nature, or Pacha Mama, in the Ecuadorian constitution. The book under review does not fall victim to such omissions and provides an in-depth critical inter-disciplinary study of domestic, regional, and sectoral approaches to environmental law in the Global South.