UID:
kobvindex_HPB1371766653
Format:
1 online resource (248 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9782807619753
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2807619754
Series Statement:
Normandy Peace Chair Collection ; vol. 3
Content:
This book presents a new method for measuring the effectivity of national and international environmental law. It took four years of research and experimentation to develop a way to construct evidence-based legal indicators. The existing environmental indicators evaluate only statistical, scientific or economic data. With legal indicators, governments, parliaments and other public and private actors, including environmental NGOs, will be able to assess accurately and concretely, on a scientific basis, what the gaps, progress and setbacks in the implementation of international conventions and national laws are. The legal indicators will also serve as innovative tools for decision-making, in particular to carry out legislative reforms in full knowledge of the facts and not blindly, as well as to avoid regressions in environmental law. The mathematical method used makes it possible, through a questi onnaire addressing all the legal and institutional stages of the application of legal texts, to provide data highlighting both the points to be improved and the strengths of the application of the law. This essay is an update of a first book published in 2018 by the Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable. It is the result of a partnership between the International Centre for Comparative Environmental Law and the Normandy Chair for Peace.
Note:
Cover -- Series Information -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abstract -- Introduction -- I. The need for effectivity in environmental law -- A. Effectivity in international and domestic law -- B. Distinction between effectivity and effectiveness -- C. The effectiveness of environmental law according to McGrath -- D. The growing interest in legal effectivity, particularly in environmental law -- E. Effectivity in relation to non-effectivity -- II. Acknowledgment that truly legal indicators do not exist
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A. Indicators that occasionally address the environment -- B. Indicators focusing specifically on the environment -- C. Human rights indicators -- III. Sustainable Development Goal indicators -- A. The gradual increase in indirect legal force of the SDGs -- B. The United Nations SDG indicators -- C. The World Bank SDG indicators -- D. SDG indicators of academic and private origin -- IV. Why create legal indicators for the environment? -- A. Respond to ineffective processes in environmental law -- B. Inform the public about the social value of environmental law -- C. Inform decision-makers
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D. Scientifically measure progress and regressions in environmental law -- V. How to create legal indicators based on criteria of effectivity in environmental law -- A. Similar experiments -- B. Initial selection of the area of law to be evaluated -- C. Families of effectivity criteria in environmental law -- D. Stages leading to the formulation of legal indicators in questionnaires -- E. Examples of model questionnaires -- VI. How to measure and represent legal indicators? -- A. The object of measurement -- B. The method of measurement -- C. The resulting indicators
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D. Statistical monitoring of effectivity progress within the area of measurement -- E. Graphical representation -- Conclusion: Strengths and weaknesses of legal indicators -- 1. Contribution of legal indicators to governance -- 2. The limits of legal indicators -- Bibliography -- Annexes -- Table of Contents -- Series index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 2-8076-1976-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51617
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