Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism

Daly E, May JR.  Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism. In: Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism: Current Global Challenges. Cambridge University Press; 2018:i-ii.

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James R. May

Washburn University - Washburn University School of Law; Widener University Delaware Law School; Haub School of Law at Pace University

Erin Daly

Widener University Delaware Law School

Date Written: May 31, 2018

Abstract

Constitutions can play a central role in responding to environmental challenges, such as pollution, biodiversity loss, lack of drinking water, and climate change. The vast majority of people on earth live under constitutional systems that protect the environment or recognize environmental rights. Such environmental constitutionalism, however, falls short without effective implementation by policy makers, advocates, and jurists. Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism: Current Global Challenges explains and explores this "implementation gap." This collection is both broad and deep. While some of the essays analyze crosscutting themes, such as climate change and the need for rule of law that affects the implementation of environmental constitutionalism throughout the world, others delve deeply into geographically contextual experiences for lessons about how constitutional environmental law can be more effectively implemented. This volume informs global conversations about whether and how environmental constitutionalism can be made more effective to protect the natural environment.

Keywords: Environmental Law, Human Dignity, Human Rights, Environmental Constitutionalism

Suggested Citation

May, James and Daly, Erin, Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism
(May 31, 2018). Daly E, May JR.  Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism. In: Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism: Current Global Challenges. Cambridge University Press; 2018:i-ii., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4976843

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