Public international law: environment

The United States and Canada are salt water neighbors on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans.

This book critically engages the shortcomings of the field of international heritage law, seen through the lenses of the five major UNESCO treaties for the safeguarding of different types of heritage.

Offers an innovative look at why science and technology cannot alone meet the needs of energy policy making in the future.

Provides academics and practitioners with a detailed analysis of the interface between foreign investment and environmental law.

The book aims to analyze the development of the right to water from the perspective of human rights law.

Assesses the existing compliance system of the UN climate regime and examines the key challenges for the emerging post-2012 system.

This book examines legal, economic and environmental developments including recent state and international practice.

This pioneering study on environmental case-law examines how courts engage with science and reviews legitimate styles of judicial reasoning.

This book examines lawsuits over climate change that have been brought around the world.

Brings together three diverse perspectives on the law relating to armed conflict.

Reflections on the ICJ''s Chagos Advisory Opinion and its broader context: British colonialism, US military interests, and human rights violations.

Clean Power Politics explains clean energy policy and the need for a successful transition to clean energy in the future.

Networks like cables and pipelines are essential for a functioning energy market.

In Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Environmental Liability, experts who held leadership positions and worked directly with the UNCC draw on their experience with the institution and provide a comprehensive view of the United Nations Compensation Comission and its work in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law.

An evidence-based policy summary to help governments, local authorities and businesses meet internationally agreed environmental goals.

Humankind must harness capitalism, not quash it, if it wants to save itself from ecological catastrophe.

This book explains the drivers and implications of unconventional gas at regional, national and global scales with case studies and in-depth analyses.

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.

As global climate change threatens to change radically both the political and physical climate with regard to water issues, so a reassessment of some of the fundamental principles of international water law is emerging.

Global regulatory standards are emerging from the environmental and health jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, the World Trade Organization, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and investor-state dispute settlement.

IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on the mitigation of climate change for researchers, students, and policymakers.

A practical human rights approach strengthens environmental protection without requiring radical departures from established protection regimes and legal principles.

International Environmental Law is a new textbook written for students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject.

Many international obligations are subject to exceptions.

International economic law guides and shapes globalization and the future of the world economy, our human societies, and the Earth.

Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea examines the rights and duties of states across a broad spectrum of maritime security threats.

Examines the successes and failures of the Clean Air Act in order to lay a foundation for future energy policy.

There are few existential challenges more serious in the twenty first century than energy transition.

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

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.

The book sheds new light on the achievements, challenges and legal complexity of the EU as a global environmental actor.

Chalmers' Marine Insurance Act 1906 is far more than a piece of annotated legislation; it includes case law with analysis and puts the decisions made in the individual cases into the context of Act.

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 investigation of how climate change affects maritime boundaries, suggesting ways for the international law community to mitigate the effects.

The book provides a systematic and comprehensive study of the prevention principle in international environmental law.

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

Examines how international law perpetuates global environmental injustice and how the system can be fundamentally reworked to address ecological crises.

Analyzes how combinations of instruments at different levels of government, or smart mixes, can effectively regulate transboundary environmental harm.

This book argues for a reframing of environmental law.

This work analyses fairness dimensions of the climate regime.

An authoritative analysis of [a decade of] research on institutional architectures in earth system governance, covering key elements, structures and policy options.

A comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of climate risks to water security for students, researchers, civil and environmental engineers, and management professionals.

Explores what went wrong with global carbon markets and what this means for future climate change policy and capitalism.

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

Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems.

Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems.

La construcción de un mercado interior de la energía, incluyendo el gas natural y el hidrógeno, es uno de los objetivos de la Unión Europea.

Worldwide, half a million people die from air pollution each year-more than perish in all wars combined.