Bouwer / Etemire / Field Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa

1. 1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2896-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 358 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice

In recent years, climate litigation has become an important subject of global scholarly and policy interest. However, developments within the Global South, particularly in Africa, have been largely neglected.
This volume brings together an international team of contributors to provide a much-needed examination of climate litigation in Africa. The book outlines how climate litigation in Africa is distinct as well as pinpointing where it connects with the global conversation. Chapters engage with crucial themes such as human rights approaches to climate governance, postcolonial theory and the role of gender in climate litigation.
Spanning a range of approaches and jurisdictions, the book challenges universal concepts around climate and the role of activism (including litigation) in seeking to advance climate governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bouwer, Kim

Etemire, Uzuazo

Field, Tracy-Lynn

Oluborode Jegede, Ademola

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rebelo, Pia

Rebelo, Xavier

van Wyk, Sanita

Obani, Pedi

Boshoff, Elsabe

Ekhator, Eghosa O.

Okumagba, Edward O.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction - Kim Bouwer, Uzuazo Etemire, Tracy-Lynn Field and Ademola Oluborode Jegede
Part 1: Legal Tools, Opportunities and Barriers
2. Legal Opportunities and Gender Dimensions of Climate Change Litigation in South Africa and Nigeria – Pedi Obani
3. Legal Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A South African Perspective – Nicole Loser
4. Access to Information: A Key Challenge to Climate Litigation in Africa? - Bernard Namanya
5. Legal Obstacles to Climate Litigation with Reflection on South Africa and Nigeria - Ademola Jegede
6. Climate Change Litigation in Civil Law African Countries: An Assessment of Barriers and Potentialities in the Congo Basin – Daniel Owona
7. Challenging Sea Level Rise in Maghreb States - Samira Idllalène
Part 2: Equity and Decolonial Approaches
8. Intergenerational Equity and Climate Change: Lessons for Climate Litigation in Africa - Unwana Udo
9. Africa’s Youth and Transnational Climate Litigation – Bright Nkrumah
10. Gas Flaring as “Hell on Earth” for the Indigenous Peoples of Africa: “Coloniality” and Sustainable Development Goals and the Effect on the Niger-Delta Zone of Nigeria – Olaniyi Felix Olayinka
11. Social Functionalism: An Alternative to Limited Anthropocentrism and Surrogate Climate Litigation for Corporate Responsibility? – Onyeka Osuji
12. No Legal Recourse for Climate Displaced Persons: A Postcolonial Critique of International Law – Nour Abdelwahab
Part 3: Rights-based Approaches
13. The Prospects and Challenges of Litigating Climate Change before the African Regional Human Rights Bodies - Elsabe Boshoff
14. Avenues for Private Climate Change Litigation: The Advancement of a South African Constitutional Rights Approach – Pia Rebelo and Xavier Rebelo
15. Climate Change Displacement Litigation in Africa: A Human Rights and Refugee Law Based Approach – Judge John Mativo
16. Climate Change and Human Rights in Nigeria: A Case for Climate Justice - Eghosa O. Ekhator and Edward Okumagba
17. Potential for Climate Litigation in South Africa Based on the Dutch Framework of the Urgenda Case – Sanita van Wyk
18. The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Shifting the African Climate Litigation Focus to Adaptation – Tracy-Lynn Field
19. Climate Litigation in North Africa: The Right in Water as a Model - Riyad Fakhri and Youness Lazrak Hassouni
Part 4: Law and Science in Africa
20. Climate Law and Climate Science: Litigation as an Enabler for “Climate Enlightenment in Africa”? – Oliver C. Ruppel
21. The Vulnerability of African Indigenous Peoples Meteorological Knowledge in the Climate Change Debate – Fiona Batt
22. Conclusion - Kim Bouwer, Uzuazo Etemire, Tracy-Lynn Field and Ademola Oluborode Jegede

Über Autor(innen)

Kim Bouwer is Assistant Professor at the University of Durham, UK.
Uzuazo Etemire is Senior Lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria and Fung Global Fellow at the University of Princeton, US.
Tracy-Lynn Field is Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Ademola Oluborode Jegede is Professor at the University of Venda, South Africa.