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A significant contribution to the field . . . a welcome addition to the growing literature on international environmental law and an important reference for every scholar, lawyer, and layperson interested in the field. Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, Vol. V Emphasizing the human and societal damage caused by corporate actors, this provocative book analyzes a broad range of regional and global issues, such as air and water quality, marine pollution, climate change, ozone depletion, deforestation, traffic in hazardous waste and chemicals, and loss of biological diversity. The text provides readers with an incisive, integrated approach to the political, economic, scientific, and technological realities that underlie international environmental law and policy. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint

Documents in International Environmental Law 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 anyone interested in international law in the field of environmental protection. This edition represents an up-to-date collection of the most important documents and aims to make the text and the key information on the legal status of the various acts, including its parties where a treaty is concerned, easily accessible to students, academics and practitioners. Each document is introduced with a short Editorial Note, summarising the main provisions of the instrument and places it in its wider context. Editorial notes are followed by information on the date of adoption/signature of the document, its entry into force and a list of the parties (if a treaty)

This is a ground-breaking study of the law-making process and the linkage between international environmental law and international environmental institutions Among many highlights, this study shows that international institution building is an organic process directly geared to the needs of states. It underscores the fact of international life that institutions are essentially tools, operating within legal parameters, for states to address global problems. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint

This fully updated second edition of Corporate Accountability in International Environmental Law examines systematically all international sources of corporate accountability standards with specific reference to environmental protection, and elaborates on their theoretical and practical implications for international environmental law.

Emerging Principles of International Environmental Law is ideally suited for any law or environmental studies student, practitioner or law academic who is interested in the legal status of emerging principles in the field of international environmental law. Among its highlights, the text examines the interaction of principles/concepts such as sustainable development, the precautionary principle etc., with one another and how the present international environmental law regime has taken the vast disparity between developed and developing countries into account in designing innovative methods to

Prevention is recognized as a cornerstone of international environmental law, but this principle remains abstract and elusive in terms of exactly what is required of states to prevent environmental harm. In this illuminating work, Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli addresses this issue by offering a systematic, comprehensive assessment in which she clarifies the rationale, content, and scope of the prevention principle while also placing it in a wider legal context. The book offers a detailed analysis of treaty law, custom codification works, and case law before culminating in a conceptualization of prevention based on three definitional traits: 1. Its anticipatory rationale; 2. Its due diligence content; and 3. Its wide spatial scope to protect the environment as a whole. This book should be read by anyone seeking to understand the evolving principle of prevention in international environmental law, and how it increasingly shares common ground with reparation in the arena of compliance control.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Forewords -- AMBASSADOR STUART E. EIZENSTAT -- AMBASSADOR THOMAS A. SHANNON JR. -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- AIM OF THE BOOK -- METHODOLOGY ADOPTED -- DEFINING THE ENVIRONMENT -- WHY PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT? -- THE CONCEPTS OF EXPLOITATION, CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW-MAKING -- STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- NOTES -- Chapter 2: Stakeholders in international environmental regimes -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ROLE OF THE STATE -- THE ROLE OF NON-STATE ACTORS -- NOTES -- Chapter 3: Antarctic regime and mineral exploitation -- INTRODUCTION -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ANTARCTICA -- ANTARCTICA AND THE SEARCH FOR MINERALS -- BUILDING THE ANTARCTIC REGIME -- THE ANTARCTIC TREATY AND MINERAL EXPLOITATION -- WHY THE PUSH TO EXPLOIT ANTARCTICA'S MINERALS? -- ENGOS AND ANTARCTIC MINERAL EXPLOITATION -- ANTARCTIC TREATY CONSULTATIVE PARTIES AND MINERAL EXPLOITATION -- ENGOS DURING THE 1970S -- THE CREATION OF THE WELLINGTON CONVENTION (CRAMRA) -- ENGO RESPONSES TO THE CRAMRA NEGOTIATIONS -- ENGO OPPOSITION TO CRAMRA -- WHY DID CRAMRA FAIL TO BE RATIFIED? -- THE NEGOTIATION OF THE MADRID PROTOCOL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 4: Tropical timber -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ENVIRONMENTAL ROLE OF TROPICAL FORESTS -- TROPICAL FOREST DEFORESTATION -- CAUSES OF TROPICAL FOREST DEFORESTATION -- BUILDING AN INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER REGIME? -- THE ENGOS AND THE TROPICAL TIMBER REGIME -- THE INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER AGREEMENT -- THE INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION -- THE ENGO RESPONSE TO THE NEW ITTO -- SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT -- SUSTAINABLE LABELLING -- THE ITTO AND THE YEAR 2000 OBJECTIVE -- THE 1994 SUCCESSOR AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS -- THE YEAR 2000 REPORT.

This Handbook is a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field of international environmental law, with contributions from leading scholars in the discipline. It is an essential reference text for all students, researchers, and practitioners engaged with environmental issues at the international level.

What is the impact of environmental law on private companies especially multinationals? How are international organizations interacting with businesses regarding the environment? This text responds to these topical questions by identifying corporate accountability standards and their implementation.

pt. 1. The legal framework for the protection of the marine environment -- pt. 2. Pollution and the marine environment -- pt. 3. Seabed activities and the marine environment -- pt. 4. Protection of marine biodiversity -- pt. 5. Regional approaches to the protection of the marine environment -- pt. 6. Climate change and the marine environment.