This book provides a background of the law governing natural resources and explores the relationship with key concepts such as sustainable development, sovereign rights, and state responsibility principles within international law.

Introduction

SHAWKAT ALAM, JAHID HOSSAIN BHUIYAN AND JONA RAZZAQUE

PART I

Natural resources law and investment law: Interactions

Foreword

ELIZABETH MARUMA MREMA

1 International natural resources law and sustainable investment: Principles and practices

SHAWKAT ALAM, JAHID HOSSAIN BHUIYAN AND JONA RAZZAQUE

2 Sovereign rights, state obligations and natural resources

UPENDRA BAXI

3 Evolution of the permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the context of the investment regime

JAHID HOSSAIN BHUIYAN

PART II

Balancing competing interests

Foreword

KAMAL HOSSAIN

4 Natural resources management and sustainable development in the WTO legal system: Implications for the investment regime

ILARIA ESPA

5 Natural resource protection in regional and bilateral investment agreements: In search of an equitable balance for promoting sustainable development

SHAWKAT ALAM

6 Arbitration and natural resource protection

MARIEL DIMSEY

7 Expropriation, nationalisation and resource protection - 'resource nationalism' and international law

JÜRGEN BRÖHMER

8 Regulatory strategies, CSR and resource protection

PAOLO GALIZZI AND EMILY SMITH EWING

9 State owned oil companies, North-South and South-South perspectives on investment

ELENA MERINO BLANCO

PART III

Changing dynamics

Foreword

PHILIPPE CULLET

10 Water, investment and sustainability

REBECCA BATES

11 Sustainable agricultural investment and the Global South

JONA RAZZAQUE AND PHUONG LE

12 Sustainable mining, human rights and foreign investment: Nexus and challenges

ABDULLAH AL FARUQUE

13 International indigenous rights, investment and sustainability in the mining sector

ANDREW ERUETI, SARAH DOWN AND JACINTA RURU

14 Financing energy resources and sustainable development

PRISCILLA SCHWARTZ

15 Carbon trading as a climate change mitigation tool

BEATRIZ GARCIA

16 Modern biofuels: The road to integrated sustainability

FEJA LESNIEWSKA

PART IV

Conflict, corruption and liability

Foreword

BENJAMIN J. RICHARDSON

17 Natural resources, conflict and investment: Conflict minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the challenges to sustainable investment

ONITA DAS

18 Corruption, investment and natural resources

ADAM SIMPSON

19 Criminal liability for exploitation of natural resources

MICHAEL FAURE

Index

Shawkat Alam is a Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University, Australia.

Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Northern University, Bangladesh.

Jona Razzaque is a Professor of Environmental Law at Bristol Law School, University of the West of England Bristol, UK