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

handle is hein.journals/apjel24 and id is 1 raw text is: 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. © 2021 The Author Journal compilation © 2021 Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Lypiatts, 15 Lansdown Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 2JA, UK and The William Pratt House, 9 Dewey Court, Northampton MA 01060-3815, USA