Public international law: environment

Johnston unpacks and critiques the legal, economic, and scientific basis for precautionary climate policies pursued in the United States.

Critically examines whether and how local and experimental action can deliver significant and transformative ways of tackling climate change.

This handbook examines how existing laws and policies fail to protect communities from major disasters and describes the actions needed to promote greater resilience.

First published in 2006, this essential tool for researchers and practitioners captures the international law practice of a global player.

Climate change presents an unprecedented global challenge, and impacts upon a wide range of human economic activity.

An innovative volume that covers all the common topics of climate law currently debated in the global academic community.

Outlines the relationship between Sustainable Development Goals and international law, including current problems and potential solutions.

Governing Arctic Seas introduces the concept of ecopolitical regions, using in-depth analyses of the Bering Strait and Barents Sea Regions to demonstrate how integrating the natural sciences, social sciences and Indigenous knowledge can reveal patterns, trends and processes as the basis for informed decisionmaking.

In international law, as in any other legal system, respect and protection of human rights can be guaranteed only by the availability of effective judicial remedies.

The Book takes the approach of a critique of the prevailing international environmental law-making processes and their systemic shortcomings.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date volume on environmental analysis available today, this is the standard laboratory reference for any environmental or chemical engineer, chemist, or scientist.

Presents a distinctly local idea of citizenship that, with the advance of globalization, often conflicts with national citizenship.

This first study of the environmental challenges handled by the League of Nations pioneers new perspectives on legal and environmental history.

Since the International Labour Organisation's Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC) came into force internationally on 20 August 2013, it has already been amended, and a further two sets of amendments have been agreed and are expected to come into force in 2019 and 2020.

This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people's long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change.

This book focuses on the social and environmental issues being addressed by agricultural law within the current globalised system.

Guiding you through each step, Statutory Nuisance takes you from initial assessment of a potential nuisance, through document drafting to the magistrates' court and beyond to the higher courts.

This book builds on the scholarship of the law of state jurisdiction, engaging with fundamental questions about states' legislative competence, to respond to climate change.

The title 'Commercial Maritime Law' is a misnomer.

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming.

Overview of the ''new extractivist paradigm'' which could bring viable futures for Arctic communities, including renewable energies, tourism, and science.

Half a century ago, on 16 December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Guiding you through each step, Statutory Nuisance takes you from initial assessment of a potential nuisance, through document drafting to the magistrates' court and beyond to the higher courts.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the European Sustainability Model which cannot be properly understood without taking into account the global governance trends surrounding the topic.

This book examines the Hebrew Bible''s numerous laws about sacrificial procedure to understand the significance of gender in sacrificial rituals.

This three-volume Manual on International Maritime Law presents a systematic analysis of the history and contemporary development of international maritime law by leading contributors from across the world.

An argument that secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—are political actors in their own right.

A guide to the meaning of environmental regulation in an era of transnational cooperation for sustainability.

Assesses to what extent wilderness areas in Europe receive protection under international conventions, EU directives and domestic law.

This sixth volume of the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on current legal challenges regarding nuclear disarmament and security.

Explains the functioning of shared competences in environmental protection by focusing on member states'' interaction with the EU legal framework.

Why is it that some countries comply with international laws, while others disregard them?

Presents a beautiful vision of how we could change our structures and order to give us a new role on Earth - one that will protect the natural world, rather than destroy it.

Connects a qualitative perspective of environmental management with the quantitative skills used by engineering and applied science students.

This book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins as vague political slogans reflecting fears about environmental hazards to their embodiment in enforceable laws.

The thawing Antarctic continent offers living space and marine and mineral resources that were previously inaccessible.

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences.

An assessment of the role of international law in preventing natural resources from fuelling armed conflict and improving their governance.

This book analyses a selection of challenges in the implementation and application of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), focusing on several areas: international organizations, fisheries, security, preserving marine biodiversity, dispute settlement, and interaction with other areas of international law.

This book considers, and offers solutions to, the problems faced by local communities and the environment with respect to global mining.

An accessible synthesis of a decade of multidisciplinary research into how diverse actors exercise authority in environmental decision making.

A comprehensive legal analysis of how governance of human activities in developed states should be restructured to improve ecological protection.

Presents a beautiful vision of how we could change our structures and order to give us a new role on Earth - one that will protect the natural world, rather than destroy it.

This book examines the US Water Quality Act to determine state choice in water infrastructure policy, for researchers and policymakers.

This book, first published in 2002, considers why states often use transboundary resources inefficiently, looking ahead to potential resolutions.

This book offers two major proposals for environmental law reform, laying the groundwork for a third generation of environmental law.

Under the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention, States have sovereign rights over the resources of their continental shelf out to 200 nautical miles from the coast.

This study of the UNECE environmental regime shows how international law could help solve the world''s freshwater crisis.

A systematic exploration of the underlying issues and negotiation history of climate change governance, for policymakers, NGOs, researchers and graduate students.

This book provides expertly written guidance on the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in developing countries, including recommendations about risk analysis and governance.