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

This fully updated second edition 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. This book explores the evolving role of international law in directing and controlling the conduct of business enterprises, in particular multinational corporations, with respect to the protection of the environment, the sustainable use of natural resources, and the respect of inter-related human rights. It assesses the progress and continuing limitations in the identification of international standards of corporate environmental accountability and responsibility, and their implementation by international organizations. This assessment indicates the extent to which the international community has conceptually and operationally clarified its expectations about acceptable corporate conduct. This second edition relates the intensified convergence of international standard-setting efforts on corporate environmental accountability, with parallel international developments on business and human rights and on the inter-relationship between human rights and the environment. It also explores the more recent emergence of substantive international standards of corporate environmental responsibility, which have arisen from a growing number of sectoral guidelines. In addition, this edition points to remaining divergences in the content of international standards of corporate environmental accountability and responsibility, which reflect differing views between States of their international obligations to ensure the protection of the environment and the respect of human rights.

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.

Dieses Buch zum internationalen Umweltrecht zielt auf ein neues Verständnis des Umweltrechtes ab, und zwar im Lichte des Klimawechsels, des Verlustes an biologischer Vielfalt (Biodiversität) und aller sonstigen Herausforderungen, die die akuten Veränderung der globalen Umwelt mit sich bringen. Das Buch konnte trotz der Vielzahl von Fragen und Themen dank einer sorgfältigen Auswahl der behandelten Gegenstände und einer bereichsübergreifenden Synthese der regulatorischen Interaktionen knapp gehalten werden. Damit stellen die Autoren das internationale Umweltrecht in einen breiteren Kontext zum allgemeinen Völkerrecht und lassen gleichzeitig erkennen, dass es sich beim internatonalen Umweltrecht um ein interessantes Experimentierfeld zur Entwicklung neuer rechtlicher Ansätze in Richtung einer Weltordnungspolitik (global governance) handelt.Vorteile auf einen Blick:idealer "Türöffner" für weitere Studien auf dem Gebiet des internationalen Umweltrechtsknapp und klarlehrbuchartiger Aufbau erleichtert den ZugangInhalt:Neben der Darstellung der Grundlagen des internationalen Umweltrechts, der Rechtsetzung und Rechtdurchsetzung macht das Werk Vorschläge zur Verbesserung der Koordination, der Harmonisierung und Integration bestehender multilateraler Umweltübereinkommen. Es stellt dar, wie Konflikte zwischen den verschiedenen Umweltregimen vermieden, zumindest aber angemessen behandelt werden können. Die Autoren zeigen, dass ein angemessenes Management internationaler Umweltbeziehungen das Nord-Süd-Gefälle als wesentlich für die Beseitigung der Hindernisse für eine globale Zusammenarbeit zu berücksichtigen hat. Schließlich behandeln die Autoren auch die wachsende Bedeutung der Menschenrechte für das internationale Umweltrecht