Measuring the Effectivity of Environmental Law : : Legal Indicators for Sustainable Development.

• Superior document: Générations Futures, Paix et Environnement / Future Generations, Peace and the Environment Series ; v.3
• Author: Prieur, Michel.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bastin, Christophe.; Mekouar, Ali.
• Place / Publishing House: Brussels : : P.I.E. - Peter Lang SA Éditions Scientifiques Internationales,, 2021.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Générations Futures, Paix et Environnement / Future Generations, Peace and the Environment Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 pages)

This book presents a new method for measuring the effectiveness of national and international environmental law. It is the result of four years of research and experimentation to develop a way to construct legal indicators. The only existing environmental indicators measure only statistical, scientific or economic data.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Series Information -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abstract -- Introduction -- I. The need for effectivity in environmental law -- A. Effectivity in international and domestic law -- B. Distinction between effectivity and effectiveness -- C. The effectiveness of environmental law according to McGrath -- D. The growing interest in legal effectivity, particularly in environmental law -- E. Effectivity in relation to non-effectivity -- II. Acknowledgment that truly legal indicators do not exist -- A. Indicators that occasionally address the environment -- B. Indicators focusing specifically on the environment -- C. Human rights indicators -- III. Sustainable Development Goal indicators -- A. The gradual increase in indirect legal force of the SDGs -- B. The United Nations SDG indicators -- C. The World Bank SDG indicators -- D. SDG indicators of academic and private origin -- IV. Why create legal indicators for the environment? -- A. Respond to ineffective processes in environmental law -- B. Inform the public about the social value of environmental law -- C. Inform decision-makers -- D. Scientifically measure progress and regressions in environmental law -- V. How to create legal indicators based on criteria of effectivity in environmental law -- A. Similar experiments -- B. Initial selection of the area of law to be evaluated -- C. Families of effectivity criteria in environmental law -- D. Stages leading to the formulation of legal indicators in questionnaires -- E. Examples of model questionnaires -- VI. How to measure and represent legal indicators? -- A. The object of measurement -- B. The method of measurement -- C. The resulting indicators -- D. Statistical monitoring of effectivity progress within the area of measurement -- E. Graphical representation.

Conclusion: Strengths and weaknesses of legal indicators -- 1. Contribution of legal indicators to governance -- 2. The limits of legal indicators -- Bibliography -- Annexes -- Table of Contents -- Series index.