International Environmental Law and Policy in AfricaB. Chaytor, K.R. Gray Springer Science & Business Media, 2013 M11 11 - 362 pages C.O.OKIDl1 I welcome the opportunity to prepare a Foreword to the book on Environmental Policy and Law in Africa, edited by Kevin R. Gray and Beatrice Chaytor. It is a pleasure to do that because the book is a contribution to the cause of capacity building for development and implementation of environmental law in Africa, a goal towards which I have had an undivided focus over the last two decades. There is still some belief in and outside Africa that for developing countries in general, and Africa in particular, development and implementation of environmental law is not a priority. This belief prevails strongly in many quarters of the industrialised countries. In fact, the view is held either out of blatant ignorance or by some renegade industrialists who fail to appreciate Michael Royston's 1979 thesis that Pollution Prevention Pays.2 That group, for obvious reasons, must have their correspondent counterparts in Africa to provide hope that industries rejected as derelict in the West or inoperable due to rigorous environmental regulation, can find homes to which they can escape and dump their polluting industries. |
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... global environmental organisations such as Friends of the Earth and local environmental organisations , enabling the latter to grow . In turn , environmental legislation in Ghana began to accord greater importance to the role of ...
... global environmental organisations such as Friends of the Earth and local environmental organisations , enabling the latter to grow . In turn , environmental legislation in Ghana began to accord greater importance to the role of ...
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... global environmental issues , such as biodiversity loss and climate change , desertification is a complex process that involves numerous physical , social and economic factors . Simply put , desertification is environmental degradation ...
... global environmental issues , such as biodiversity loss and climate change , desertification is a complex process that involves numerous physical , social and economic factors . Simply put , desertification is environmental degradation ...
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... Global climate change may also have implications for desertification . For example , some climatologists believe that climate change and global warming are responsible for periods of drought in Sahelian Africa.14 However , 2 ELISABETH ...
... Global climate change may also have implications for desertification . For example , some climatologists believe that climate change and global warming are responsible for periods of drought in Sahelian Africa.14 However , 2 ELISABETH ...
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... global concern since it ultimately affects world food security.2 Desertification can also lead to population migration away from degraded areas , resulting in both increased urbanisation and migration across borders , which in turn can ...
... global concern since it ultimately affects world food security.2 Desertification can also lead to population migration away from degraded areas , resulting in both increased urbanisation and migration across borders , which in turn can ...
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... global " problem , there were nevertheless differing views on the desirability of holding an international conference on the subject . Developing countries maintained that desertification could not be solved nationally or regionally but ...
... global " problem , there were nevertheless differing views on the desirability of holding an international conference on the subject . Developing countries maintained that desertification could not be solved nationally or regionally but ...
Contents
The Future of Hazardous Waste Management in | 31 |
CITES and the African Elephant | 49 |
The United Nations Climate Change Regime and Africa | 65 |
Natural Resource Sector Management in Africa | 83 |
Environmental Regulation of the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria | 103 |
Policing Industrial Pollution in Nigeria | 131 |
Tanzanian Forest Law | 151 |
Common Features and Trends of Fisheries Legislation in Africa | 181 |
Lake | 203 |
Development of Law and Policy Instruments | 217 |
The Evolution and Structure of Popular Participation in Environmental Decision | 251 |
Legal and Regulatory Framework for Environmental Impact Assessment in | 267 |
The Use of Market Based Economic Instruments for Sustainable Development in | 297 |
Effectiveness of the Environmental Impact Assessment Process in Managing | 327 |
List of Abbreviations | 351 |
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