This concluding chapter addresses the urgent imperative to establish Islamic environmental law as a formal discipline capable of responding to unprecedented planetary crisis. Drawing on insights from 26 chapters examining the intersection of Islamic jurisprudence and environmental governance, this conclusion argues that Islamic environmental law offers transformative frameworks for addressing climate breakdown, biodiversity collapse, and ecological injustice through principles of khilafah (stewardship), mizan (balance), and maslaha (public interest). The chapter outlines comprehensive strategies for institutionalizing Islamic environmental law as an academic discipline, including curriculum development, research infrastructure, and methodological innovations that integrate environmental science with traditional Islamic legal reasoning. It examines critical research priorities spanning climate jurisprudence, Islamic environmental finance, and environmental justice frameworks that connect ecological protection to human dignity. Recognizing the scale of environmental crisis, the chapter proposes institutional innovations including Islamic environmental courts, shariah-compliant regulatory mechanisms, and revitalized traditional institutions like waqf and hima adapted for contemporary conservation needs.

The book develops the synergies between Islamic Law, Environmental Law, and Corporate Social Responsibility to situate the concern of environmental degradation looking at regional, transboundary and global disputes between the state, corporate actors, and stakeholders. This book will lay the foundations of Islamic thought related to environmental protection, air quality control, and water rights. Through the lens of environmental law, the work will broaden the framework for Islamic law and critique political and economic dynamics in Muslim-majority countries that give rise to increased levels of environmental toxicity, hazardous waste, water stress, and rampant extractivism. This collection examines these concerns in terms of rigidities and interdependencies, between competing claims to resources, rights and responsibilities, strategy and governance, between state and corporate actors, and the implications for equity and the common good over the long term. Islam and Environmental Law is simultaneously a classical legal framework and contemporary approach for environmental protection, human rights, and an earth-centered jurisprudence.

Technology has been the bedrock of human existence from time immemorial as every aspect of human life is dependent on one form of technology or the other for their satisfaction. The desire to improve the quality of life and living had induced man to continually invent and innovate. The global economy has become a knowledge economy and the bedrock on which the river of the knowledge economy flows is intellectual property and allied rights. A country’s actualisation of its vision of industrialisation and attendant sustainable development changes as the role of man changes in every era and stage of technology based on such country’s efforts at a particular period to develop its frontiers of intellectual property towards meeting the dynamics of technology. With increased technology and innovation employed in manufacturing, agriculture, and transportation comes environmental pollution and degradation. Many traditional societies in Nigeria fostered strong belief systems and social norms which encouraged or even enforced limits to exploitation of biological resources. These traditional practices are being eroded by several factors. This chapter appraises the IPR, traditional knowledge systems and Islamic law perspective in the protection and preservation of the environment.