Return to search

Rethinking Transnational Environmental Health Governance in Africa: Can Adaptive Governance Help?

No / This article explores options to strengthen environmental law to maximize its health impact in the developing world. A review of environmental treaties, including their domestic implementation, reveals the weak synergies between health and environmental objectives. The article advances adaptive governance as a framework for rethinking international environmental law to improve health in Africa, but argues that it has its limits. It analyses these strengths and limits in the context of evolving regional environmental health governance in Africa, and proposes four principles – environmental justice, multi-sectoral collaboration, evaluation and environmental ethics – to reinforce its potential to improve health and the environment in Africa.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/14222
Date25 April 2016
CreatorsOnzivu, William
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, No full-text in the repository

Page generated in 0.0021 seconds