International Environmental Law and Policy in Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in Africa

   1. Dryland Degradation — Africa’s Main Environmental Challenge

      • Elisabeth Corell

      Pages 1-29

   2. Reconciling Basel and Bamako: The Future of Hazardous Waste Management in Africa

      • Beatrice Chaytor, Mita Manek

      Pages 31-47

   3. CITES and the African Elephant

      • Michael Kidd, Michael Cowling

      Pages 49-63

   4. The United Nations Climate Change Regime and Africa

      • Kevin R. Gray, Joyeeta Gupta

      Pages 65-81

3. Natural Resource Sector Management in Africa

   1. Biotechnology and the Commercialisation of Biodiversity in Africa

      • Rachel Wynberg

      Pages 83-102

   2. Environmental Regulation of the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria

      • Kent Nnadozie

      Pages 103-129

   3. Policing Industrial Pollution in Nigeria

      • Ali Ahmad

      Pages 131-150

   4. Tanzanian Forest Law

      • Jon C. Lovett

      Pages 151-180

   5. Common Features and Trends of Fisheries Legislation in Africa

      • Antonio Tavares

      Pages 181-202

   6. Setting up Institutions to Manage Transboundary Natural Resources: Lake Kariba a Case in Point

      • Cecil Machena

      Pages 203-215

4. Development of Law and Policy Instruments

   1. African Environmental Governance

      • Carl E. Bruch

      Pages 217-249

   2. The Evolution and Structure of Popular Participation in Environmental Decision-Making: The Case of Ghana

      • Kofi Oteng Kufuor

      Pages 251-266

   3. Legal and Regulatory Framework for Environmental Impact Assessment in African Countries

      • Mohammed A. Bekhechi

      Pages 267-296

   4. The Use of Market Based Economic Instruments for Sustainable Environmental Management in Africa: A Case Study of the SADC Region

      • Pendo Maro Susswein

      Pages 297-325

   5. Effectiveness of the Environmental Impact Assessment Process in Managing Tourism Development in the Seychelles

      • Rolph Payet

      Pages 327-349

5. Back Matter

   Pages 351-362

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C.O.OKIDl1 I welcome the opportunity to prepare a Foreword to the book on Environmental Policy and Law in Africa, edited by Kevin R. Gray and Beatrice Chaytor. It is a pleasure to do that because the book is a contribution to the cause of capacity building for development and implementation of environmental law in Africa, a goal towards which I have had an undivided focus over the last two decades. There is still some belief in and outside Africa that for developing countries in general, and Africa in particular, development and implementation of environmental law is not a priority. This belief prevails strongly in many quarters of the industrialised countries. In fact, the view is held either out of blatant ignorance or by some renegade industrialists who fail to appreciate Michael Royston's 1979 thesis that Pollution Prevention Pays.2 That group, for obvious reasons, must have their correspondent counterparts in Africa to provide hope that industries rejected as derelict in the West or inoperable due to rigorous environmental regulation, can find homes to which they can escape and dump their polluting industries.

• CITES
• United Nations
• biodiversity
• development
• environment
• negotiations
• pollution

• Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, London, UK

  Beatrice Chaytor

• British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, UK

  Kevin R. Gray

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