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Introduction -- Sources and structure of international environmental impact assessment commitment -- The role of EIAs in public international law -- The Vuotos Case Finland - Sweden 1960's - 2019 -- France - Spain Interconnection 1982 - 2015 -- The Upper Mekong Navigation Improvement Project (UMNIP) China - Myanmar - Thailand - Laos 1989 - 2020 -- Conclusion.

Introduction -- Sources and structure of international environmental impact assessment commitment -- The role of EIAs in public international law -- The Vuotos Case Finland - Sweden 1960's - 2019 -- France - Spain Interconnection 1982 - 2015 -- The Upper Mekong Navigation Improvement Project (UMNIP) China - Myanmar - Thailand - Laos 1989 - 2020 -- Conclusion.

"International Environmental Law" published on by Oxford University Press.

International Documents on Environmental Liability brings together 30 official full-text documents in the field of international environmental liability into an easily accessible, practical handbook, details the work of the International Law Commission on this topic, and provides the latest versions of international liability conventions and their statuses – including the latest on: (1) 2003 UNECE Kyiv Liability Protocol, (2) 2004 EC Directive on Environmental Liability, (3) 2005 Antartica Liability Annex. The authors' combined capacity as an academic, policy advisor, and practitioner have helped bring forth a publication that reflects their experience of being involved in the development, negotiations and implementation of environmental liability regimes at both an international and European level.

International law at the intersection of environmental protection and disaster risk reduction / Jacqueline Peel and David Fisher -- Climate change and the narrative of disaster / Lisa Grow Sun -- Disaster law in the anthropocene / Daniel Farber -- A capabilities approach to defining climate disasters / Rosemary Lyster -- Resilient incoherence-seeking common language for climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable development / Anne Siders -- Disastrous adaptation / Cinnamon P. Carlarne -- Disaster risk assessment : an appraisal of European Union environmental law / Denis Edwards -- The potential role of international environmental and water law to prevent and mitigate water-related disasters / A. Dan Tarlock -- Water treaty regimes as a vehicle for cooperation to reduce water-related disaster risk : the case of Southern Africa and the Zambesi Basin / Mary Picard -- Valuing foreign disasters in international environmental law / Arden Rowell and Lesley Wexler -- Liability and compensation as instruments of disaster risk mitigation? / Michael G. Faure -- The UN SDGs and environmental law : cooperative remedies for natural disaster risks / Nicholas A. Robinson -- International frameworks governing environmental emergency preparedness and response : an assessment of approaches / Carl Bruch, Rene Nijenhuis & Shanna N. McClain -- Preventing and responding to Arctic offshore drilling disasters : the role of hybrid cooperation / Hari M. Osofsky, Jessica Shadian, and Sara L. Fechtelkotter -- Overlapping international disaster law approaches with international environmental law regimes to address latent ecological disaster / Anastasia Telesetsky -- Afterword : environmental disasters and human rights / John H. Knox

The important new 1999 Supplement to this widely-used sourcebook contains the text of 48 major treaties and other legal instruments completed between 1991 and 1998. These instruments represent the important developments in international environmental law since the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. Both volumes are ideally suited for adoption in international environmental law courses. Special classroom prices are available. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Is Contemporary International Environmental Law Based on Science? -- 1.1 Arbitrary Adoption of Laws Before the Eyes of an Environmentalist -- 1.2 Case Study: The Regulations of the International Seabed Authority -- 1.3 Definitions of the Main Terms-of-Art -- 1.3.1 Composition of and Role Distinction Between Political and Expert Bodies -- 1.3.2 Experts as Natural and Social Scientists -- 1.3.3 Science-Based Policy Making, Science-Based Decision-Making and Science-Based Lawmaking -- 1.3.3.1 The Relationship Between Decision-Making and Lawmaking -- 1.4 First Attempt to Define Science-Based Lawmaking -- Chapter 2: Historical Background: What Are the Lessons Learnt from the Past and What Remains To Be Answered -- 2.1 From Plato´s Philosopher-King to Enlightment, Noocracy, Expert Technocracy and Eco-technocracy -- 2.2 Milestone Instruments Calling for Effective Integration of Science in International Environmental Law -- 2.2.1 Early Bilateral and Multilateral Environmental Conventions -- 2.2.2 Acknowledgment of the Importance of Science in Treaty-Making -- 2.2.3 The Road to Stockholm -- 2.2.4 The 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment -- 2.2.5 The 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development -- 2.2.6 The State of International Environmental Law at the 2002 UN World Conference on Sustainable Development -- 2.2.6.1 ``Shall Be Based upon Scientific Findings´´ -- 2.2.6.2 The Requirement for the Scientific Basis of the Conventions -- 2.2.6.3 The Requirement for the Best Scientific Evidence Available -- 2.2.7 Deployment of New Environmental Tools: Risk Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments -- 2.2.7.1 Environmental Impact Assessments.