Chapter 1 The Role of Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Delivering Environmental Justice

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The Honourable Justice Brian J Preston
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Abstract

This chapter explores the role of courts and tribunals in promoting environmental justice. In particular, it examines whether specialist environmental courts and tribunals are better equipped to manage and resolve environmental disputes than their generalist counterparts and, if so, why. The exploration is in three parts: first, what the concept of environmental justice involves, namely the three components of distributive, procedural and recognition justice; second, what environmental courts and tribunals do, through the analytical frames of function, doctrine and process; and third, how environmental courts and tribunals do what they do, through analyzing their competences and expertises. Adopting these lenses, this chapter evaluates how environmental courts and tribunals are better able to deliver environmental justice than conventional courts.

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Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific

Best Practices, Challenges and the Way Forward

Series:  Brill's Asian Law Series, Volume: 13
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