Full Description
This book introduces a novel discourse, based on socio-legal theory of compliance with international environmental law, which addresses the overarching question: When can international environmental law and policy achieve implementation, compliance, and be effective?
Offering an important contribution to academic and practical understandings of implementation and compliance with international environmental obligations, the book firstly critiques existing multidisciplinary theories of law and then brings together international and domestic legal theories to highlight their symbiotic relationship. It also stresses the importance of interactions between domestic and international legal and policy processes. This pioneering discourse is argued to be transformative to international environmental regimes and offers a way for them to be truly normative and to achieve compliance.
The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of socio-legal studies and international environmental law and policy.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Introduction 1. Law but not as you know it: A new discourse of international environmental law 2. The 1992 UN Convention on Biological Diversity and common challenges to implementation 3. Making international environmental law and policy that works 4. The role of secretariats in international environmental governance 5. Compliance and accountability for international environmental law and policy 6. Keeping international environmental law and policy alive: The important journey of implementation 7. Learning the Lessons: Implications for policy. Conclusion.
