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A beacon of hope for a troubled Earth? A critical analysis of China’s authoritarian approach to constructing ‘ecological civilization’ 给陷入困境的地球带来希望的灯塔?中国威权主义“生态文明”建设的批判性分析
Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-10-06 DOI: 10.4337/apjel.2023.01.05
Evelyn Li Wang
The urgency of the ecological situation in the age of the Anthropocene has led to a call for concerted efforts across the globe. Disappointed at the liberal democracies’ environmental inaction, as evidenced in the political gridlock after attempts to compromise capitalists’ interests in overexploiting natural resources, or to limit individual freedom in engaging unsustainable behaviour, environmentalists are turning to more decisive state actions in combating environmental problems. In this field, arguably, China’s authoritarian approach to constructing ecological civilization is viewed as a beacon of hope by some environmental commentators. This article, after exploring the concepts of environmental authoritarianism and ecological civilization, demonstrates how the state-driven top-down construction of ecological civilization, exemplified by campaign-style enforcement and coercive enforcement, does not only fail to resolve ‘the tragedy of the commons’, but also results in ‘the tragedy of the ordinaries’. It further discusses implications for China’s construction of ecological civilization beyond the borders of China. The conclusion is reached that caution is demanded when using such a state-led authoritarian approach to addressing environmental problems on this troubled earth.
人类世时代的生态形势迫在眉睫,需要全球共同努力。对于自由民主国家在环境问题上的无所作为,环保主义者正转向采取更果断的国家行动来应对环境问题,这一点在试图妥协资本家在过度开采自然资源方面的利益、或限制个人从事不可持续行为的自由后出现的政治僵局中得到了证明。可以说,在这一领域,中国建设生态文明的威权主义方式被一些环境评论员视为希望的灯塔。本文在对环境威权主义和生态文明的概念进行探讨后,论证了以运动式执法和强制执法为代表的国家主导的自上而下的生态文明建设,不仅不能解决“公地悲剧”,反而导致了“平民悲剧”。并进一步探讨了这对中国境外生态文明建设的启示。得出的结论是,在这个混乱的地球上,使用这种国家主导的威权方法来解决环境问题需要谨慎。
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Modern slavery: the hidden obstacle to achieving climate justice in the Asia-Pacific region, and beyond 现代奴隶制:亚太地区及其他地区实现气候正义的隐藏障碍
Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-10-06 DOI: 10.4337/apjel.2023.01.03
Joshua Glass
While many developed countries have committed to tackling the global challenge of slavery, there has been little policy recognition that climate change and climate disasters are key drivers of these hidden exploitative practices. This article aims to bridge this divide by presenting evidence that climate-displaced persons have been targeted by traffickers or, facing limited alternatives, have voluntarily entered into exploitative employment in industries which are themselves fuelling the climate crisis. Having established modern slavery as a climate justice issue, the author will demonstrate that developed countries have tended to treat the two as distinct problems to be solved separately, resulting in a siloed approach to two closely connected issues. Alternative approaches, which incorporate modern slavery considerations into climate change mitigation and adaptation frameworks and vice versa, will be considered, with a view to achieving better outcomes for victims of climate disasters who have thus far remained invisible. In particular, case studies from developed and developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region, which possesses both a high vulnerability to climatic hazards and over half of the world’s modern slavery victims, will be of particular relevance throughout.
虽然许多发达国家已承诺应对奴隶制的全球挑战,但政策上很少认识到气候变化和气候灾害是这些隐性剥削行为的主要驱动因素。本文旨在通过提供证据来弥合这一分歧,证明气候流离失所者已成为贩运者的目标,或者面临有限的选择,自愿进入本身助长气候危机的行业的剥削性就业。在将现代奴隶制确立为气候正义问题之后,作者将证明发达国家倾向于将这两个问题作为单独解决的不同问题,从而导致对两个密切相关的问题采取孤立的方法。将考虑将现代奴隶制问题纳入气候变化缓解和适应框架的替代办法,反之亦然,以期为迄今为止一直被忽视的气候灾害受害者取得更好的结果。特别是,亚太地区发达国家和发展中国家的案例研究在整个会议期间将具有特别的意义,因为亚太地区极易受到气候灾害的影响,而且拥有世界上一半以上的现代奴隶制受害者。
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Climate change and loss and damage in Bangladesh* 气候变化与孟加拉国的损失和损害*
Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-10-06 DOI: 10.4337/apjel.2023.01.01
Laurène Barmaz, Karen Makuch, Miriam Aczel, Saleemul Huq
Climate change increasingly affects social, economic and ecological systems, particularly in the most vulnerable regions of the world. The most frequently promoted strategies for handling impacts are mitigation and adaptation. Despite employing these two approaches, ‘loss and damage’ (L&D) may still occur. Thus, a third strategic approach may be needed to help vulnerable communities deal with damage associated with climate impacts, which can take many forms including economic and non-economic loss. How to assess and manage L&D remains subject to contentious debate within climate change negotiations. There is still no clear and commonly accepted understanding of L&D consolidated in law or policy at the international level. In this article, it is confirmed that conflicting or unclear framing of L&D is one of the main explanations for the slow progress in accepting L&D as an important third approach – in addition to mitigation and adaptation – needed to measure and manage global impacts of climate change. This article analyses how L&D is currently framed in policy and institutional terms and identifies the main challenges to addressing it at the national and international levels. Better to understand the challenges of incorporating L&D into climate change strategies, the case of Bangladesh is examined.
气候变化日益影响社会、经济和生态系统,特别是在世界上最脆弱的地区。最常提倡的处理影响的战略是缓解和适应。尽管采用了这两种方法,“损失和损害”(L&D)仍然可能发生。因此,可能需要第三种战略方法来帮助脆弱社区应对与气候影响相关的损害,这些损害可以采取多种形式,包括经济和非经济损失。在气候变化谈判中,如何评估和管理碳排放仍是一个有争议的话题。对于法律和政策在国际层面上仍然没有明确和普遍接受的理解。在本文中,可以确认的是,在接受将可持续发展作为衡量和管理气候变化全球影响所需的除减缓和适应之外的第三种重要方法方面进展缓慢,主要原因之一是对可持续发展的框架相互矛盾或不明确。本文分析了L&D目前在政策和制度方面的框架,并确定了在国家和国际层面解决这一问题的主要挑战。为了更好地理解将L&D纳入气候变化战略的挑战,我们研究了孟加拉国的案例。
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Developments in legislating dam safety in India: a tale of ifs and buts? 印度大坝安全立法的发展:如果和但是的故事?
IF 0.6 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.4337/apjel.2022.02.02
T. Puthucherril
Given the many dams worldwide, safety is critical as a dam failure can negatively impact human health, property and the environment. India has a substantial stock of dams, ranking third after the US and China. However, about 80 percent of its large dams are over 25 years old, and nearly 227 dams are over 100 years. These ‘geriatric’ dams continue to function but raise serious safety concerns, with a classic example being the 127-year-old Mullaperiyar Dam. Although India’s track record of dam safety is more or less satisfactory, there has been poor maintenance and several failures. Even though ‘water’ under India’s Constitution is a matter that India’s States determine, India recently enacted the Dam Safety Act, 2021 at the national level. Many have expressed criticism of this statute for being ‘anti-federal’. This article evaluates the law on dam safety in India by highlighting the salience of India’s Dam Safety Act. The core argument is that given legislative laxity on the part of States in adopting dam safety measures, and the limitations on a State to legislate beyond its borders, the Union did need to intervene via the Dam Safety Act. By enacting this statute, the Union has not usurped the States’ powers. Instead, it has fortified cooperative federalism by creating institutional structures at the central and State levels to ensure that dam safety is not compromised and that people do not have to lose their lives unnecessarily.
鉴于世界各地有许多大坝,安全至关重要,因为大坝故障会对人类健康、财产和环境产生负面影响。印度拥有大量水坝,仅次于美国和中国,位居第三。然而,大约80%的大坝使用年限超过25年,近227座大坝使用年限在100年以上。这些“老年”大坝继续发挥作用,但引发了严重的安全问题,一个典型的例子是有127年历史的Mullaperiyar大坝。尽管印度的大坝安全记录或多或少令人满意,但也存在维护不善和几次故障。尽管印度宪法规定的“水”是印度各州决定的问题,但印度最近在国家层面颁布了《2021年大坝安全法》。许多人批评该法令“反联邦”。本文通过强调印度《大坝安全法》的重要性来评估印度的大坝安全法。核心论点是,鉴于各州在采取大坝安全措施方面的立法松懈,以及对一个州在境外立法的限制,联邦确实需要通过《大坝安全法》进行干预。通过颁布这项法令,欧盟没有篡夺各州的权力。相反,它通过在中央和州一级建立体制结构来加强合作联邦制,以确保大坝安全不受损害,人们不必失去不必要的生命。
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The New South Wales Heritage Act Review: a misdirected inquiry with a questionable purpose 新南威尔士州遗产法案审查:一个目的可疑的误导调查
IF 0.6 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.4337/apjel.2022.02.01
Kirk Daniel Gehri
The New South Wales (‘NSW’) government published a discussion paper in April 2021 to encourage debate prior to commencing a review of the Heritage Act 1977 (NSW) ‘Heritage Act’. The paper had three key themes: making heritage easy, putting heritage to work and making heritage relevant. An inquiry into the review was referred to the Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues. Multiple public submissions to the standing committee criticized the government’s policy themes for having failed to include guiding principles for the Heritage Act, those being: to protect, conserve and celebrate the State’s cultural heritage. The National Trust (NSW) has sought that any future amendments to the Heritage Act result in better heritage outcomes, rather than a weakening of heritage protection. First, this article suggests that the NSW Government has misallocated the State’s resources by conducting a review of the Heritage Act, when many stakeholders have suggested the architecture of the Act is highly workable. Secondly, reform of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW) (‘NPWA’) is long overdue, as NSW remains the only State in Australia that still manages indigenous heritage through flora and fauna legislation. Thirdly, it is of concern that the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) (‘EPAA’) can override any protection afforded under the Heritage Act if the project is deemed to be ‘State Significant Development’ (‘SSD’). The consequences arising from the Heritage Act review are important for all those who wish to preserve treasured older-style buildings and green space in NSW.
新南威尔士州(“NSW”)政府于2021年4月发布了一份讨论文件,鼓励在开始审查1977年《遗产法》(NSW)“遗产法”之前进行辩论。该论文有三个关键主题:让遗产变得简单,让遗产发挥作用,让遗产变得相关。有关检讨的调查已转交立法会社会问题常务委员会。向常设委员会提交的多份公开材料批评政府的政策主题没有包括《遗产法》的指导原则,即:保护、保存和庆祝国家文化遗产。国家信托基金会(NSW)希望未来对《遗产法》的任何修订都能带来更好的遗产结果,而不是削弱遗产保护。首先,这篇文章表明,新南威尔士州政府通过对《遗产法》进行审查,错误地分配了该州的资源,而许多利益相关者认为该法的架构是高度可行的。其次,早就应该改革1974年《国家公园和野生动物法》(“新南威尔士州”),因为新南威尔士州仍然是澳大利亚唯一一个仍然通过动植物立法管理土著遗产的州。第三,令人担忧的是,如果项目被视为“国家重大开发”(“SD”),《1979年环境规划和评估法》(新南威尔士州)(“PAA”)可能会凌驾于《遗产法》规定的任何保护之上。遗产法审查产生的后果对所有希望在新南威尔士州保护珍贵的老式建筑和绿地的人来说都很重要。
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Procuratorates at the crossroad: performance, controversies and prospects of procuratorial EPIL in China 十字路口的检察院:中国检察EPIL的实践、争议与展望
IF 0.6 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.4337/apjel.2022.02.03
Yuna Ma, Wenzhen Shi
Procuratorial environmental public interest litigation (EPIL) has shown its vitality in addressing environmental concerns through the channel of PIL and gained momentum in the nation’s agenda-setting. Procuratorial activism is signalled and revealed by mobilizing procuratorates at all levels, activating PIL in all types of litigation, seeking breakthroughs in new fields, and replacing the role of gap-filling with a paramount one in practice. It is noteworthy that the efficacy of procuratorial EPIL may be discounted due to its cherry-picking feature in case screening. Caution should be placed against procuratorial activism, which may risk crowding out NGOs by a turn of policy focus to criminal prosecution with incidental civil EPIL, and intruding administrative discretion by a comparatively low threshold to initiate administrative EPIL and tightened judicial review. Procuratorial EPIL needs to be founded on a rational design of procuratorates’ role in the overall EPIL system by coordinating between the dual roles of EPIL litigants and the constitutionally entrenched role of legal supervisions. Connection mechanisms among different types of PIL should be established to bring each into full play and reach synergy. Legal empowerment and top-down design should be adopted to reduce discrepancies and increase cohesion.
检察环境公益诉讼(EPIL)在通过PIL渠道解决环境问题方面显示出了其活力,并在国家议程制定中获得了势头。通过动员各级检察院,在各类诉讼中激活公益诉讼,在新领域寻求突破,并在实践中以最重要的作用取代填补空白的作用,检察激进主义得到了信号和启示。值得注意的是,由于检察EPIL在案件筛选中具有挑拨离间的特点,其疗效可能会大打折扣。应警惕检察行动主义,因为检察行动主义可能会将政策重点转向附带民事EPIL的刑事起诉,从而排挤非政府组织,并以相对较低的门槛侵犯行政自由裁量权,以启动行政EPIL并加强司法审查。检察EPIL需要建立在合理设计检察院在整个EPIL系统中的角色的基础上,协调EPIL诉讼当事人的双重角色和宪法规定的法律监督角色。应建立不同类型PIL之间的连接机制,充分发挥各自的作用,形成协同效应。应采取法律授权和自上而下的设计,以减少差异,增强凝聚力。
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Mapping and assessing the Supreme Court of India’s jurisprudence on sustainable development in light of the SDGs: from Vellore Citizens Welfare Forum to Hanuman Laxman Aroskar 根据可持续发展目标绘制和评估印度最高法院关于可持续发展的判例:从Vellore公民福利论坛到Hanuman Laxman Aroskar
IF 0.6 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.4337/apjel.2022.02.04
Florian Müller
The 2015 adoption of Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals represents a new approach to promoting sustainable development. This article examines the potential openness of the Supreme Court of India to utilize Agenda 2030 rhetoric by looking at the Court’s case law. For this purpose, landmark cases that advanced the Court’s understanding of sustainable development are analyzed in order to identify different angles of interpretation. Against this background, this article argues that the Court’s 2019 ruling in Hanuman Laxman Aroskar v Union of India marks a critical step towards SDG implementation in a domestic context. In light of this recent development, the Court’s jurisprudence on sustainable development is then critically evaluated. The article concludes with an outlook on potential future paths of integrating the SDGs into the Court’s case law.
2015年通过的《2030年议程》包含17个可持续发展目标,为促进可持续发展提出了新思路。本文通过观察法院的判例法,探讨了印度最高法院在利用2030年议程修辞方面的潜在开放性。为此,本文分析了促进法院对可持续发展理解的具有里程碑意义的案例,以确定不同的解释角度。在此背景下,本文认为,法院2019年在Hanuman Laxman Aroskar诉印度联邦案中作出的裁决标志着在国内背景下实现可持续发展目标的关键一步。鉴于这一最近的发展,法院在可持续发展方面的判例将受到严格的评价。文章最后展望了将可持续发展目标纳入法院判例法的潜在未来路径。
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The pursuit of ‘net-zero by 2060’: a ‘silver bullet’ for China’s energy security dilemma? 2060年实现“净零排放”:解决中国能源安全困境的“灵丹妙药”?
IF 0.6 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.4337/apjel.2022.02.05
Cynthia Yuan
As a rapidly emerging economy that has developed an increasing reliance on fossil fuel imports due to energy demand outstripping its ability to generate supply, the People’s Republic of China’s (hereinafter, ‘China’) energy security challenges have been persistent and ongoing. Over the years, China has sought to address these energy security risks through various strategies, from diversification to self-sufficiency, and energy conservation. None of these strategies have proven to be a panacea to solving China’s energy security dilemma. The key issue examined in this article is how China’s pursuit of carbon neutrality, bolstered through its recent announcement of a target of net-zero emissions by 2060, will have impacts on the ongoing energy security challenges faced by China’s energy systems. By analysing the true relationship between the two objectives of ‘energy security’ and ‘emissions reductions’, this article seeks to test whether energy security is in fact a ‘bottleneck restricting sustainable economic and social development’. Through an in-depth examination of the legislative and policy instruments which govern the transformation of China’s energy grid, this article posits that the characterization of the energy security and emissions reduction as dichotomous is antiquated. The pursuit of net-zero by 2060, through decreasing China’s overreliance on fossil fuel imports and increasing the diversity of energy sources within the energy mix to encompass more non-fossil fuel sources, has the potential to be the ‘silver bullet’ to China’s energy security challenges.
作为一个快速崛起的经济体,由于能源需求超过其生产能力,越来越依赖化石燃料进口,中华人民共和国(以下简称“中国”)的能源安全挑战一直持续存在。多年来,中国一直寻求通过各种战略来应对这些能源安全风险,从多样化到自给自足,再到节能。这些战略都没有被证明是解决中国能源安全困境的灵丹妙药。本文探讨的关键问题是,中国最近宣布了到2060年实现净零排放的目标,以此为支撑,追求碳中和将如何影响中国能源系统面临的持续能源安全挑战。通过分析“能源安全”和“减排”这两个目标之间的真实关系,本文试图检验能源安全是否实际上是“制约可持续经济和社会发展的瓶颈”。通过深入研究管理中国电网转型的立法和政策工具,本文认为将能源安全和减排定性为二分法是过时的。通过减少中国对化石燃料进口的过度依赖,增加能源结构中能源的多样性,包括更多的非化石燃料来源,到2060年实现净零排放,有可能成为应对中国能源安全挑战的“银弹”。
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Climate-induced displacement from Pacific Island states: evaluating international legal frameworks and Australia’s role in facilitating pathways forward 太平洋岛国气候导致的流离失所:评估国际法律框架和澳大利亚在促进未来道路方面的作用
IF 0.6 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.4337/apjel.2022.01.02
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Challenges in marine plastic pollution regulation in Indonesia 印尼海洋塑料污染监管面临的挑战
IF 0.6 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.4337/apjel.2022.01.05
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