Twenty years ago, when the forerunner of this journal (then called the Land Management and Environmental Law Review) first appeared, I was its Managing Editor. Recently, I had occasion to look back at the first half-dozen issues of the journal. At about the same time, I also happened to review the most recent version of the legal work programme of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). I found both exercises quirkily unsettling, as my first reaction was not how many things have changed, but how many things remain the same.
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