Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific is an in-depth treatment of the features, best practices, challenges and future prospects for environmental courts and tribunals (ECTs) in the Asia-Pacific region. ECTs play an important role in improving environmental dispute resolution, access to environmental justice and environmental governance, but data and academic analysis on ECTs are very limited. This book fills that gap, with ten chapters authored by leading academics, judges and lawyers from multiple jurisdictions, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines and Sri Lanka, as well as pan-Asia-Pacific and global perspectives
Linda Yanti Sulistiawati is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, National University of Singapore. Asia Pacific APCEL and also an Associate Professor of Law in Universitas Gadjah Mada. Linda was the Lead Author of UNEP's
Environmental Courts and Tribunals, Guideline for Policymakers 2021, and also the Lead Author for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report 6, Working Group 3 on Mitigation, 2023.
Sroyon Mukherjee is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, National University of Singapore. His research has been published in the
Journal of Environmental Law,
Review of European, Comparative & International Law, and has also been cited by the Supreme Court of India.
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Consolidated Cases
Part 1 Bridging the Gap: Theories and Practice of
ect
s in Asia-Pacific 1 The Role of Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Delivering Environmental Justice
The Honourable Justice Brian J Preston
Part 2 Challenges and Benefits of
ect
s in Asia-Pacific: Case Studies 2 India’s National Green Tribunal
Quo Vadis? Gitanjali Nain Gill
3 Environmental Courts and Tribunals in the Philippines
Opportunities and Challenges in Environmental Litigation Grizelda Mayo Anda
4 The New Zealand Environment Court
Past, Present, and Future Laurie Newhook, Ceri Warnock and Alan Webb
5 Japan’s Administrative Environmental Tribunals
50 Years of the Pollution Dispute Resolution System Jo Toriyabe
6 Greening the Bench in Indonesia
From Certification to Environmental Courts? Agung Wardana
8 Specialized Environmental Courts in China
Yuhong Zhao
Part 3 Regional Perspectives on
ects
: Prospects and Challenges 9 South Asian Perspectives on Environmental Courts and Tribunals
Prospects and Challenges Kokila Konasinghe
10 Asia-Pacific Regional Perspective on Environmental Courts and Tribunals
The Way Forward Linda Yanti Sulistiawati
Index
Universities, libraries (academic, law, public policy), environmental lawyers and practitioners, judges, policymakers