Directory of Scholars

ALBERTO COSTI


Associate Professor, Barrister & Solicitor

email Alberto.Costi@vuw.ac.nz

Primary Research Interests

  • Climate change law
  • Human rights & the environment
  • International environmental law

Secondary Research Interests

  • Environmental ethics & justice
  • Regional environmental law (eg European Union)
  • Trade law & the environment

Selected Publications

  • “De la Définition et du Statut des ‘Réfugiés Climatiques’: Une Première Réflexion” (2010) 16 Yearbook of the New Zealand Association for Comparative Law 489-505.
  • Alberto Costi and Ives-Louis Sage (eds) Droit de l'Environnement dans le Pacifique: Problématiques et Perspectives Croisées/Environmental Law in the Pacific: International and Comparative Perspectives (New Zealand Association for Comparative Law/Association de Législation Comparée des Pays du Pacifique, Wellington, 2005) 372 pp.
  • Alberto Costi, “Environmental Protection, Economic Growth and Environmental Justice: Are They Compatible in Central and Eastern Europe?” in Julian Agyeman, Robert D Bullard and Bob Evans (eds) Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Earthscan/MIT Press, London/Cambridge, MA, 2003) 289-310.
  • Alberto Costi, “Reconciling Environmental Justice and Development in Transition Economies: The Central and Eastern European Reality” in Klaus Bosselman and Benjamin Richardson (eds) Environmental Justice and Market Mechanisms: Key Challenges for Environmental Law and Policy (Kluwer, The Hague, 1999) 303-323.
  • “Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development in Central and Eastern Europe” (1998) 8 European Environment 107-112.