Harvard University Press, 2010. — 376 p. — ISBN: 978-0-674-03543-0. Although international environmental law is a comparatively new field, its rules and standards now fi ll books — and not short books either. A leading treatise on the principles of international environmental law runs to more than 1,000 densely packed pages, detailing rules of virtually every description on...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 373 p. Many harms flow across the ever-more porous sovereign borders of a globalizing world. These harms expose weaknesses in the international legal regime built on sovereignty of nation states. Using the Trail Smelter arbitration, one of the most cited cases in international environmental law, this book explores the changing nature of state...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 359 p. The central idea animating environmental impact assessment (EIA) is that decisions affecting the environment should be made through a comprehensive evaluation of predicted impacts. Notwithstanding their evaluative mandate, EIA processes do not impose specific environmental standards, but rely on the creation of open, participatory and...
Edward Elgar Pub, 2010. — 703 p. — (Research Handbooks in International Law Series). — ISBN: 1847201245, 9781847201249 This wide-ranging and comprehensive Handbook examines recent developments in international environmental law (IEL) and the crossover effects of this expansion on other areas of international law, such as trade law and the law of the sea. The expert contributors...
Springer, 2013. — 522 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-44945-1 This book reflects my research and thinking on this topic from my time as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and as a visiting scholar to Columbia University Law School from 2004-2008. It also includes some insights gained during my work as a legal...
London, New York: Routledge, 2011. — 320 p. — (Routledge Research in Environmental Law). — ISBN: 0415489806, 0415859581 Tropical coral reefs are important ecosystems. They are economically important to coastal communities living in predominantly developing countries, and also provide shoreline protection, catalyse land formation enabling human habitation, act as a carbon sink...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 518 p. This book analyzes the law and policy for the management of global common resources. As competing demands on the global commons are increasing, the protection of the environment and the pursuit of growth give rise to all sorts of conflicts. The book analyzes issues in the protection of the global commons from fairness, effectiveness,...
Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013. — 298 p. — (Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development). — ISBN: 978-90-04-25086-4 (e-book) In Regional Co-operation and Protection of the Marine Environment under International Law: The Black Sea, Nilufer Oral examines the regional co-operation mechanism for protection and preservation of the Black Sea marine environment within...
Second Edition. — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — ISBN: 0 521 83266 7 Documents in International Environmental Law, second edition, is the companion volume to the second edition of Philippe Sands’ Principles of International Environmental Law. It comprises a representative selection of international environmental treaties and documents which are essential for...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 993 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-76959-4 ; ISBN: 978-0-521-14093-5. This new and fully updated edition of Principles of International Environmental Law offers a comprehensive and critical account of one of the fastest growing areas of international law: the principles and rules relating to environmental protection. Introducing the reader to the key...
Oxford University Press, 1994. - 214 p. International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades. However, decisions on policies to address key issues such as biodiversity loss, climate change, ozone depletion, hazardous waste transport and numerous other planetary challenges require individual countries to adhere to international norms....
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 458 p. Analysing the regulation of vessel-source pollution from the perspective of the political interests of key players in the ship transportation industry, Alan Khee-Jin Tan offers a comprehensive and convincing account of how pollution of the marine environment by ships may be better regulated and reduced. In this timely study, he traces...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 300 p. How can we best protect the polar marine environment against pollution? Leading scholars on environmental law, the law of the sea, and Arctic and Antarctic affairs examine this important question. To what extent do existing global instruments of environmental protection apply to the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean? Can the...
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