Public international law: environment

Outlines a human rights-based approach to carbon finance, a framework for mainstreaming human rights into carbon project implementation.

Due diligence is a prominent concept in international law, frequently referred to in arbitral awards, court decisions, and in scholarly discussions on state responsibility.

The title 'Commercial Maritime Law' is a misnomer.

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

A new phase is emerging in the relationship between energy and resource activities and the communities that are affected by them.

This volume is a vital contribution to conversations about urban sustainability, looking beyond the propaganda to explore its consequences for everyday life.

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance.

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

A state-of-the-art review of adaptiveness as a key concept in environmental governance literature, complemented by global, regional, and national applications.

The Law of International Watercourses is an authoritative guide to the rules of international law governing the navigational and non-navigational uses of international rivers, lakes, and groundwater.

Explores the key international treaty instruments regulating species conservation and habitat protection, and the mechanisms available to make them work.

An in-depth analysis of one of the most complex and intriguing legal and sociological phenomena of the contemporary period.

In this book, eleven prominent authorities on climate change consider the legal, policy and philosophical issues presented by geoengineering.

Situating the global poverty divide as an outgrowth of European imperialism, this book investigates current global divisions on environmental policy.

The book"e;Regional Approaches to the Energy Transition"e;, discusses the key challenges the energy transition is facing at the European and International level.

This book explores the means by which economic liberalisation can be reconciled with human rights and environmental protection in the regulation of international trade.

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

Many international obligations are subject to exceptions.

Analysing the interactions between institutions in the climate change and energy nexus, including the consequences for their legitimacy and effectiveness.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) remains the cornerstone of global ocean governance.

This book develops an analytical framework for water law reform, using case studies across four jurisdictions, for academics, students and policy makers.

A practical and empathetic guide to managing the crisis of climate displacement, and pre-empting a mass loss of human rights.

Over the last four decades emissions trading has enjoyed a high profile in environmental law scholarship and in environmental law and policy.

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

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Maritime Law at Southampton University, current and former maritime law researchers came together to discuss the evolution of this fascinating area of law in the last 30 years and to stimulate discussion on its possible future.

This book addresses the diverse ways in which international law governs the uses, management, and protection of fresh water.

This book analyses the legal challenges facing international cooperation on water management in the twenty-first century.

The most comprehensive handbook ever published on water resource issues from a global perspective, for students, researchers and professionals.

Blending scientific and legal expertise, Kunich proves that a devastating ecological crisis is imminent or even underway already, and that conservation law has yet to catch up with biological science.

Questions the doctrinal construction of environmental law and looks for innovative legal approaches to ecological sustainability.

This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture.

The era of eco-crises signified by the Anthropocene trope is marked by rapidly intensifying levels of complexity and unevenness, which collectively present unique regulatory challenges to environmental law and governance.

This timely collection of essays examines the legal and regulatory dynamics of energy transitions in the context of emerging trends towards decarbonisation and low-carbon energy solutions.

There is persuasive evidence suggesting we are on the brink of human-induced ecological disaster that could change life on Earth as we know it.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, for students, researchers and policymakers.

This book develops an analytical framework for water law reform, using case studies across four jurisdictions, for academics, students and policy makers.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) remains the cornerstone of global ocean governance.

Discusses key issues under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that affect the further design of national and international law on biosafety.

This book is about environmental and climate legal protection in the energy transition.

Solar geoengineering could reduce climate change, but poses risks.

A comprehensive examination of international environmental litigation which addresses the major environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.

Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions.

This study examines the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).

This timely collection of essays examines the legal and regulatory dynamics of energy transitions in the context of emerging trends towards decarbonisation and low-carbon energy solutions.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) remains the cornerstone of global ocean governance.

Explores how the law of the sea can develop in support of the objectives of the United Nations climate regime.

How do dominant views and arguments about environmental problems traverse and connect international and public law?

This thorough legal resource guides those pushing the frontlines of the nation''s oldest battle: the fight to protect indigenous cultures.