Environmental Recourse At the Multilateral Development Banks

This Element examines how IGMs provide recourse for infringements of three procedural environmental rights: access to information, access to participation, and access to justice in environmental matters, as well as environmental protections drawn from the United Nations Guiding Principles and the World Bank's protection standards.

List of contents

1. International recourse for environmental and social harm; 2. International grievance mechanisms and procedural environmental rights; 3. Access to justice in environmental matters through the problem solving practices of the independent accountability mechanisms of the MDBs; 4. Access to justice in environmental matters through the compliance investigations of the independent accountability mechanisms of the MDBs; 5. Providing effective international recourse for environmental and social harm.

Summary

This Element examines how IGMs provide recourse for infringements of three procedural environmental rights: access to information, access to participation, and access to justice in environmental matters, as well as environmental protections drawn from the United Nations Guiding Principles and the World Bank's protection standards.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Park, Susan (University of Sydney) Park, Park Susan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108702348
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70234-8
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Earth System Gover; Elements in Earth System Governance
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Climate Change, Geopolitics, LAW / Environmental, Politics & government, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Social impact of environmental issues, Politics and government, urban economics, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Regional / urban economics