Resources
Bridging the Gap: Empowering Smallholder Farmers through Access to Finance
As the global population grows, smallholder farmers who produce about 30% of the world’s food will play a key role in meeting rapidly increasing demand for more foods. ADB aims to bridge the smallholder finance gap by supporting the development and deployment of tailored legal toolkits.
Gender-Based Violence Court Handbook and Training Manual for Prosecutors
This training manual contains the presentations corresponding to each module of the Gender-Based Violence Court: Handbook and Training Manual for Prosecutors.
Third South Pacific International Arbitration Conference: Post Conference Booklet
ADB, UNCITRAL, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, and other partners, host the Third South Pacific International Arbitration Conference to raise awareness on the positive development impact of international arbitration reform.
Legal Readiness to Attract Climate Finance: Towards a Low-Carbon Asia and the Pacific
Responding to the growing demand for a discussion forum on these issues, the Carbon & Climate Law Review strikes a balance between the interests of practitioners, notably those engaged in the rapidly evolving carbon market, and a more doctrinal focus, alternating legal policy recommendations with timely articles on legal aspects of carbon trading and other dimensions of greenhouse gas regulation.
The Model Forest Act Initiative (MoFAI): A Global Partnership to Improve the Legal Protection of Native Forests
The MoFAI is a groundbreaking initiative to provide a comprehensive and innovative legal blueprint for legislators, policymakers, and other stakeholders in designing a modern legal framework for the protection, conservation, restoration, and ecologically sustainable management and use of forests.
Introduction to ASEAN Regional Environmental Law
This chapter explores the legal, institutional and policy framework that underpins environmental management and sustainable development in Southeast Asia.
National Green Tribunal in India: Examining the Question of Jurisdiction
Can a tribunal deliver justice? By posing this rhetorical question we attempt to historically contextualize the introduction of the tribunal system of adjudication in India.
Sustainable Development as Environmental Justice: Exploring Judicial Discourse in India
The principle of sustainable development has evolved to occupy centrality in environmental jurisprudence in India. The Supreme Court has reiterated its importance in the country’s environmental legal regime. However, the jurisprudence has been criticized for framing it as a zero sum game where economic development has been repeatedly used as a justification to trump environmental violations, and therefore, rendering it as only declaratory and lacking in content and sufficient teeth to shape public action.
Environmental Risk Regulation and the Indian Supreme Court: an Exercise in De-formalization of the Law?
The Supreme Court specifically has framed the issue of environmental protection as a public good – and therefore in terms of rights and entitlements t clean air, healthy environmental, pollution free water, etc. However entitlements to these public goods cannot be absolute – since in certain circumstances they may have to be balanced with other public goods – like opportunities for employment generation and other related economic development goals.
“Have a Digital Highway but also Have Speed limits”: Exploring Public Resistance to Cell Tower Radiation in India
Public resistance to environmental and health safety risks from radiations emanating from cellphone towers has been sporadic but spatially and temporally widespread in India. Civic actions have been led by civic activists, resident welfare associations, gram panchayats, lawyers, scientists and even an actor from the Bombay film industry. Large scale technical systems like cell towers are remarkably resilient to public criticism. Industry response to such resistance is usually in the form of aesthetic tinkering to hide structures from public gaze, incremental regulation and science communication to assuage public doubt. The legislature, rather than Courts, has been more responsive to such civic actions.