Sanja Bogojevic
Gästprofessor
Making Infrastructure “Visible” in Environmental Law: The Belt and Road Initiative and Climate Change Friction
Författare
Summary, in English
Infrastructure is often viewed through global and promotional lenses, particularly its role in creating market connectivity. However, infrastructure is heavily dependent on and constitutive of local spaces, where ‘frictions’, or disputes, emerge. Drawing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a case study, we examine in detail two cases of BRI-related climate change litigation – one in Pakistan, and one in Kenya – that shed light on the frictions arising from what is deemed the most significant transnational infrastructure project of our time. In doing so, this study demonstrates how infrastructure can be made more visible in environmental law and how environmental law itself provides an important mechanism for stabilizing friction in the places where infrastructure is located.
Publiceringsår
2021
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
35-56
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Transnational Environmental Law
Volym
10
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Ämne
- Law
Nyckelord
- Environmental law
- Miljörätt
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2047-1025