Environmental courts exist or are being set up at the national, sub-national, and local levels in many regions. Below are a few resources relating to some of these courts:
Bret C. Birdsong, “Adjusting Sustainability: New Zealand’s Environmental Court,” in Durwood Zaelke et al., Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance & Sustainable Development, Vol. 1, p. 453 (Cameron May 2005).
Environmental Courts http://www.kab.org/kabtoolbox/
toolbox.asp?id=357&rid=358 (discussing options for establishing environmental courts at the community level, with an “Environmental Court Planning Guide”).
Environmental Court Project: Final Report http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_planning/
documents/page/odpm_plan_606036-10.hcsp (surveying experiences in Australia, England, New Zealand, and Wales).
New Directions in the Prevention and Resolution of Environmental Disputes – Specialist Environmental Courts, by Paul Stein http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/
sc/sc.nsf/pages/stein_2 (paper presented in 1999).
http://www.law.adelaide.edu.au/
library/research/envlaw/courts.html (state environmental courts in Australia).
Kenya, The National Environmental Tribunal Procedure Rules (2003), Legal Notice No. 191, published in Kenya Gazette Supp. No. 85 of 31 Oct. 2003 (contact: net@swiftkenya.com).
http://www.justice.govt.nz/environment/ (home page for New Zealand’s Environment Court).
http://www.epa.gov/oalj/, http://www.epa.gov/eab/ (home pages for the U.S. environmental administrative law judges and appeals boards).
See also the discussion and examples relating to judicial matters following Guidelines 32
, 41(a)(v), 41(c)(vi), 41(i), 43(c), 43(d), 46, and 47.