ABSTRACT
This book explores African domestic and regional responses and approaches to environmental protection and sustainability. Written by African experts, the collection consists of five parts covering the whole of Africa. It provides broad coverage of specific themes, including environmental constitutionalism, climate change, gender and the environment, wildlife trade, environmental justice, and human displacement. The key aims are first, to explore theoretical and empirical studies to interrogate and provide clarity on academic discourse on how and whether environmental human rights approaches and policy implications have effectively enhanced environmental protection and sustainability at African domestic levels. Second, to investigate and present innovative solutions on how African domestic legal regimes deal with environmental justice, natural resources governance, refugees’ environmental rights, and climate-induced displaced persons. Finally, to propose innovative legal and institutionalised solutions to Africa’s ecological realities by determining the legal and regulatory gaps on environmental human rights issues on the continent.
The collection will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and policymakers in human rights law, environmental law, political science, ecology and conservation, environmental management, disaster management, and development studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|34 pages
Environmental constitutionalism
chapter 3|17 pages
Environmental constitutionalism in the Democratic Republic of Congo
part 2|151 pages
Domestic environmental law approaches
chapter 4|20 pages
The human right to a healthy environment in Cameroon's 1996 constitution and the pursuit of sustainability in a comparative context
chapter 6|17 pages
The non-anthropocentric claims of African environmental ethics
chapter 7|21 pages
Human rights and environmental justice as transcendental and psychosocial in human systems
chapter 8|19 pages
Oil spill preparedness and environmental governance in Mauritius
chapter 9|18 pages
The human right to a healthy environment in Tunisia
chapter 10|19 pages
Interrogating the environmental rights of the Indigenous peoples of the Niger Delta
part 3|40 pages
Gender and the environment
chapter 12|19 pages
Analysis of Global North and South approaches to public urination
chapter 13|19 pages
Towards an integrated gender-sensitive approach to climate change governance in pursuit of environmental sustainability in Africa
part 4|143 pages
Cross-cutting themes
chapter 15|19 pages
Human rights and sustainable forest conservation in Africa
chapter 16|19 pages
Exploring the effectiveness of institutionalised water conservation policy in the workplace
chapter 17|19 pages
Enhancing environmental rights protection through litigation in pursuit of environmental sustainability in Africa
chapter 19|19 pages
In pursuit of environmental sustainability
chapter 20|24 pages
Mining and environmental unsustainability
part 5|71 pages
Climate change and migration