ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: A REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Twelve years after the landmark Rio Summit on the Environment and Development, countries worldwide are continuing to grapple with the complex challenges of reconciling developmental goals with environmental protection imperatives. In Southeast Asia, as elsewhere, national governments have sought to...
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| Published in: | The Singapore year book of international law Vol. 8; p. 177 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies
01-01-2004
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| Summary: | Twelve years after the landmark Rio Summit on the Environment and Development, countries worldwide are continuing to grapple with the complex challenges of reconciling developmental goals with environmental protection imperatives. In Southeast Asia, as elsewhere, national governments have sought to meet such challenges by, inter alia, enacting new laws on natural resource management and environmental protection, ratifying relevant international conventions as well as establishing or strengthening the requisite institutions for ecological governance. In the last few years alone, various new national laws have been enacted in the Southeast Asian region to deal with issues of environmental and natural resource management. This article seeks to assess some of the new laws and institutional arrangements that have been put in place in selected Southeast Asian countries and to illustrate, by way of country examples, some of the systemic challenges to implementation and enforcement that have arisen. At the same time, the article will provide a broad snapshot of key legal and institutional trends relating to the environment that are evolving in these countries.1 [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT] |
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| ISSN: | 1793-0448 |