Environmental courts and tribunals: changing environmental and natural resources law around the globe

摘要

There has been a 'world-wide "explosion"' of tribunals and courts focusing on lawsuits involving environmental issues, according to the world's pre-eminent experts, Professors George (Rock) Pring and Catherine Pring, who for more than a decade have studied the development of these institutions.1 According to the Prings, this development is 'dramatically changing the playing field for environmental justice around the world'.