College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Legal Response to Environmental Destruction
Module LAW3016C for 2023/4
Module LAW3016C for 2023/4
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3016C: Legal Response to Environmental Destruction
This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Essential textbooks:
- Bell, McGillivray, and Pedersen, Environmental Law (9th edn, Oxford: OUP, 2017)
- Birnie, Boyle and Redgwell, International Law & the Environment (4th edn, OUP 2018)
- Sands and Peel, Principles of International Environmental Law (4th edn, CUP 2018)
- Mark Maslin, Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2021)
Recommended additional resources:
- Damien Short and Martin Crook (eds), The Genocide-Ecocide Nexus (Routledge, 2022).
- Yuliya Zabyelina & Daan Van Uhm (eds), Illegal Mining: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
- Spapens, White, and Kluin (eds), Environmental Crime and Its Victims: Perspectives Within Green Criminology (Ashgate, 2014)
- Avi Brisman, Nigel South, and Rob White (eds), Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and Emerging Issues (Ashgate, 2015)
- Fisher, Lange, and Scotford, Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials (2nd edn, Oxford: OUP, 2019)
- Toine Spapens, Rob White and Marieke Kluin (eds) Environmental Crime and its Victims: Perspectives Within Green Criminology (Ashgate, 2014).
Sample journal articles & contributions to edited volumes:
- Tim Lindgren, ‘Ecocide, Genocide and the Disregard of Alternative Life-Systems (2017) Vol. 22, No. 4, The International Journal of Human Rights, 525
- Polly Higgins, Damien Short, and Nigel South, ‘Protecting the Planet: A Proposal for a Law of Ecocide (2013) Vol 59, Crime Law Soc Change, 251.
- Philip. M. Fearnside, ‘Land-Tenure Issues as Factors in Environmental Destruction in Brazilian Amazonia: The Case of Southern Pará (2001) Vol. 29, No. 8, World Development, 1361
- S. Humphreys, ‘Competing claims: human rights and climate harms’ in Humphreys (Ed.), Human Rights and Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2010) Chapter 1 p37-66.
- Adam Branch and Liana Minkova, ‘Ecocide, the Anthropocene and the International Criminal Court’ (2023) Vol. 3, No. 1, Ethics & International Affairs, 51.
- L. Rajamani, ‘The 2015 Paris Agreement: Interplay Between Hard, Soft and Non-Obligations’ (2016) 28 Journal of Environmental Law 337–358.
- C. Reid and W. Nsoh, 'The Privatisation of Biodiversity?' (Edward Elgar, 2016) Chapter 9: Reflections pp.253-260.
- Venn ‘Social Justice and Climate Change’ in T. M. Letcher (Ed.) Managing Global Warming: An interface between technology and human issues (Elsevier, 2018) Chapter 24 pp.711-723.
- Yamineva and Romppanen, ‘Is Law Failing to address Air Pollution? Reflections on international and EU developments’ (2017) RECIEL, 26(3) 189-200.