Please feel free forward to your colleagues and share the news of our journal | | Celebrating Volume 50: New Issue Online! | NEW ISSUE We are pleased to announce that the first issue of Volume 50 of Environmental Policy and Law (EPL) has been published online. This issue has a new cover design and is filled with high-quality, covering legal and regulatory developments in the environmental field. This issue opens with a moment of reflection as we look to the future. Tomme Young, EPL’s long-serving Managing Editor, summarises this excellently in this issue's Editorial, in which she concludes: “With nearly a half century of experience, EPL will continue to grow, evolve and prepare to fill an enduring role in a new future of environmental law and policy around the world.” Access the full issue via the links below or jump to it here. NEW WEBSITE Coinciding with the publication of its 50th volume, the journal has a brand new website that has been launched in connection with the EPL's landmark celebrations. This platform is an excellent complement to the growing digital portfolio of IOS Press and is just one avenue by which our authors, readers, journal audience, and partners can engage with one another. Read more about the new site here. | We are pleased to have welcomed a number of new Editorial Board members recently and we have also expanded input at a senior level. Bharat H. Desai, PhD, is now a Managing Editor and a number of new Associate Editors have been appointed, as listed below. Click on the links below to find out more: ▪ Bharat H. Desai, PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Managing Editor | Link
▪ Elizabeth Kirk, LLM (University of Lincoln), Associate Editor | Link
▪ Elisa Morgera, PhD (University of Strathclyde) , Associate Editor | Link
▪ Melanie Jean Murcott, LLD (University of Pretoria), Associate Editor | Link
▪ Walters Nsoh, PhD (University of Birmingham), Associate Editor | Link
▪ Tiina Paloniitty, LLD (University of Helsinki), Associate Editor | Link
▪ David C. Smith, PhD (University of the West Indies),, Associate Editor | Link
| ▪ | Bharat H. Desai, PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Managing Editor | Link | | ▪ | Elizabeth Kirk, LLM (University of Lincoln), Associate Editor | Link | | ▪ | Elisa Morgera, PhD (University of Strathclyde) , Associate Editor | Link | | ▪ | Melanie Jean Murcott, LLD (University of Pretoria), Associate Editor | Link | | ▪ | Walters Nsoh, PhD (University of Birmingham), Associate Editor | Link | | ▪ | Tiina Paloniitty, LLD (University of Helsinki), Associate Editor | Link | | ▪ | David C. Smith, PhD (University of the West Indies),, Associate Editor | Link | | EPL Volume 50, Issue 1/2 INTRODUCTION
A Look Ahead in a Time of Challenge (Editorial) – Openly Available
Young, Tomme R. Open Letter to the World Health Organization and the UN Environment Programme (Letter) – Openly Available
Various Authors GLOBAL LAW AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
International Courts and Tribunals – the New Environmental Sentinels in International Law (Research Article) – Openly Available
Desai, Bharat H. | Sidhu, Balraj K. Global Pact Negotiations: Building a Normative Framework for Ecological Sustainability in the Anthropocene (News)
Juste Ruiz, José Improving Environmental Policy-Making Process to Enable Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (Research Article) – Openly Available
Almannaei, Noora Adnan | Akhter, Mohammad Salim | Shah, Afzal Convention on Biological Diversity: A Review of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework Working Group Negotiations (Research Article) – Openly Available
Tsioumani, Elsa ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE PROCESSES
Montreal Protocol: Implementation Committee (Meeting Report)
Young, Tomme R. REGIONAL LAW AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
Improving Environmental Legislation in Central Asia (Review Article)
Pobedinsky, Vyacheslav | Shestak, Viktor NATIONAL LAW AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
Ethiopia: History of the Implementation of Environmental Impact Assessment Proclamation No. 299/2002 (Review Article)
Yigzaw, Gedifew Sewenet India: Cities Take the Lead in Climate Change Governance (Review Article)
Gupta, Surya | Bansal, Kshitij | Rosencranz, Armin Indonesia: Legal Aspects of the Use of Lands Containing Karst Formations for Agricultural and Tourism Purposes (Review Article)
Kurniati, Nia | Hindersah, Reginawanti | Sukarsa, Dadang Epi Russian Federation: The Environmental Legal Framework Regarding Production and Consumption Waste (Review Article)
Kozyrin, Aleksandr Nikolaevich | Yalbulganov, Aleksandr Alibievich United States: Decoupling the Economy from Natural Resource Degradation: Enhancing the Role of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Research Article)
Hashemolhosseini, Bahar Viet Nam: Sources, Impacts and Management of Plastic Marine Debris (Research Article)
van Truong, Nguyen | Chu, Beiping | EPL publishes that facilitates an understanding of environmental policy and law issues not only by drawing upon and contributing to the environmental social sciences, but also linking the health, natural, and computer sciences. More details here. Why submit to our EPL journal? The many benefits for contributing authors include:
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• Rapid online publication (pre-press) | A key aspect of 2020 is the planning for our celebratory issue. Bharat H. Desai, PhD, is the Guest Editor and an astounding series of articles have been commissioned on the theme: Pathways to Our Better Common Environmental Future. It will be guided by looking back at the trajectory hitherto followed – especially since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in June 1972 – and look ahead to find appropriate “pathways” to global regulation of the environment. As EPL celebrates its 50th volume, we are also on the way to reach the 50th anniversary of the Stockholm Conference and the associated events planned in 2022. So, this is perfect timing to probe the future trajectory for our better common environmental future. Prof. Desai comments: “Outstanding scholars have been invited to contribute a thinking piece for this EPL special issue. A carefully calibrated topic will be taken up by each of the contributors to form part of a mosaic that could provide the best possible scholarly gaze into the future.” More details here. | Our aim is for the journal's new website to become a vital portal for the EPL community. Keep checking the site to discover all the news items that we are posting. Recent Posts | “World First” Climate Change Case: Student Sues the Australian Government
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