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24 Asia Pac. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2021)

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Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 24 No. 1, 2021, pp. 1-5


Editorial


Environmental class actions; marine alien invasive species;
urban   biodiversity;   domestic waste management; and housing
rights  in the  face  of typhoons


1 APJEL   IN THE  ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

This first issue of APJEL in the 2021 volume features articles on environmental issues
relevant to particular Asia states, and to the Asia-Pacific region generally. The five
articles in this issue follow the eight in 2020 and 13 in the 2019 volume, which con-
cerned environmental law developments  in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia,
the Maldives, Malaysia,  New  Zealand, Papua  New  Guinea,  Singapore, the South
China  Sea region and Thailand.
   It is clear that there is growing scholarly interest in environmental law and policy
in the Asian-Pacific region. Our 2018 volume included articles on Australia, China,
Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Solomon Islands and Thailand. Before that, our 2017
volume   included articles on aspects of environmental  law in Australia, China,
India, Japan and South Korea.
   The range of subject matters covered is broad. Subjects examined in just the last
two years include biodiversity protection in forests in Indonesia; biopiracy in South-
east Asia; carbon emission trading in China; compensation for soil pollution in China;
corruption and forestry in Papua New  Guinea;  environmental conservation in the
Maldives; genetically modified organisms in New  Zealand; the grant of legal rights
to rivers in Bangladesh; green banking in Bangladesh and China; logging in Australia;
marine spatial planning in Bangladesh; noise pollution underwater; protection of bird-
life migrating between Australia and China; public interest litigation in China; under-
standing and  employing  Islamic law to help protect environments  in Indonesia,
Malaysia  and Singapore; and many  more.
   Our firm collective belief is that APJEL is making a valuable and continuing con-
tribution toward advanced scholarship in the region; and that there is growing interest
in publishing in this region.
   We  welcome  both submissions of general environmental relevance and submissions
on specific, focused issues, as long as both are of relevance to Asian-Pacific scholarship.
APJEL's  goal remains to publish analytical research on a broad range of environmental
law issues across the Asia Pacific. The articles we seek to publish will always demon-
strate high quality scholarship through both broad considerations of globally relevant
issues and fine analyses of specific developments in environmental law in specific
jurisdictions.


2  DELAYS AND CHANGED PLANS IN 2021

APJEL  continues to publish rigorous scholarship in environmental law in the Asia-Pacific
region and the five articles in this first issue of the 2021 volume will, we believe, make a
valuable contribution toward such research and enhanced understanding.

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