基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2010. With thorough examination of specific environmental regimes and compliance mechanisms, this Handbook will be an indispensable resource for legal scholars, students and practitioners alike.
Full Description
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 offer analyses of foundational issues in IEL, such as responsibility for environmental damage, sustainable development and the precautionary principle, alongside studies in topical subject areas including marine protection and the law of international watercourses. This Research Handbook offers an in-depth analysis of IEL, both as a field of law in its own right, and as part of the wider system of international law. It gives a comprehensive view of IEL in all its forms and complexity.With thorough examination of specific environmental regimes and compliance mechanisms, this Handbook will be an indispensable resource for legal scholars, students and practitioners alike.
Contents
Contents:
Preface
Panos Merkouris
PART I: INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AS A SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
1. Actors and Law-making in International Environmental Law
Mark A. Drumbl
2. International Framework for Environmental Decision-making
Geir Ulfstein
PART II: THEORIES AND CONCEPTS OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
3. Sustainable Development
Duncan French
4. Environment and Development: Friends or Foes in the 21st Century?
Paolo Galizzi and Alena Herklotz
5. Implementing Intergenerational Equity
Edith Brown Weiss
6. An Introduction to Ethical Considerations in International Environmental Law
Alexander Gillespie
7. The World Bank and Sustainable Development
David Freestone
8. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities
Philippe Cullet
9. The Principles of Prevention and Precaution in International Law: Two Heads of the Same Coin?
Nicolas de Sadeleer
PART III: SUBSTANTIVE PRINCIPLES
10. The Precautionary Principle
Minna Pyhälä, Anne Christine Brusendorff and Hanna Paulomäki
11. Environmental Impact Assessment
Olufemi Elias
12. The Polluter-Pays Principle
Priscilla Schwartz
PART IV: HUMAN RIGHTS TO A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT
13. Human Rights and the Environment: Substantive Rights
Dinah Shelton
14. Human Rights to a Clean Environment: Procedural Rights
Jona Razzaque
PART V: RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HARM
15. Responsibility for Environmental Damage
Phoebe Okowa
16. International Liability for Damage to the Environment
Louise Angélique de La Fayette
17. Corporate Liability for Environmental Harm
Amanda Perry-Kessaris
PART VI: DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AND COMPLIANCE
18. Settlement of International Environmental Law Disputes
Natalie Klein
19. Environmental Disputes in the WTO
Joanna Gomula
20. Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms
Gerhard Loibl
21. International Legal Efforts to Address Human-Induced Global Climate Change
David M. Ong
22. Filling The Holes: The Montreal Protocol's Non-Compliance Mechanism
Feja Lesniewska
PART VII: BIODIVERSITY
23. Environmental Protection and the Concept of Common Concern of Mankind
Michael Bowman
24. International Environmental Law Governing Threats to Biological Diversity
David M. Ong
25. Fisheries and Marine Biodiversity
Richard Barnes
PART VIII: SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGIMES
26. The 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and Marine Environmental Protection
David M. Ong
27. Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict
Karen Hulme
28. The Relationship between the Law of International Watercourses and Sustainable Development
Malgosia Fitzmaurice
29. International Chemicals and Waste Management
Katharina Kummer Peiry
30. Drilling at the Poles: Environmental Protection in the Antarctic and the Arctic
Karen N. Scott
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