Public international law: environment

Die Arbeit behandelt die Abweichungsgesetzgebung der Länder am Beispiel des Naturschutzrechts.

In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe.

This book focuses on the most serious social and economic challenges faced by China from a public international law perspective.

The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s.

No one sets out to intentionally cause environmental problems.

This book covers several aspects of the application of Sustainable Development Goals to mining related subjects.

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The book examines innovation in environment-friendly technologies in the automobile industry.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses plays a crucial role in protecting and managing international watercourses and other sources of fresh water.

Proposes a new architecture of environmental law and public policy that is as practical as it is theoretically sound.

More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the 'protect, respect, remedy' trichotomy.

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

"e;This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change.

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

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

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

The first book to focus on the legal aspects of climate engineering, making recommendations for future laws and governance.

This book provides a review of central contributions from a variety of countries, and is intended to enhance and expand the national professional dialogue on curricula in nursing and midwifery education.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of what role international law plays in promoting a resolution of Central and East European transboundary environmental disputes.

This book critically analyses the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO's latest and ground-breaking treaty in the area of cultural heritage protection.

This book addresses current developments concerning the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the part of international courts and tribunals.

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

The real question examined by this book is not the extent of the failure of environmental policy, but exactly why did the policy fail?

Leading scholars from economics, management studies, and political science suggest effective environmental policies to mitigate human impact on the environment.

This book assesses the environmental jurisdiction of coastal states over the seabed within and beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines, thus mapping out coastal states' competencies to regulate activities impacting the marine environment of the sea floor.

Explores the diversity of partnerships at the interface of intellectual property and sustainable development.

This book summarises the recent, and future, sustainable, low-cost, environment-friendly and efficient systems for clean water production, to solve clean water crisis.

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.

'The only book of its kind on the market.

More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the 'protect, respect, remedy' trichotomy.

A discussion of cutting-edge developments in policy on climate change and forced displacement from leading academics and practitioners.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Habitats Directive's rules on designating Natura 2000 - the European biodiversity conservation network.

An innovative, interdisciplinary analysis of the increasingly important relationship between EU environmental and competition law and policy.

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

This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts.

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

This book applies a contract-governance theory to the implementation of decarbonisation objectives in the international maritime sector.

The aim of this short text is simply to introduce a reader to this topic.

With a Foreword by Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis ResponseOver the last decades natural and man-made disasters have been increasing in terms of frequency, size, number of people affected and material damage caused.

This book contributes to the scholarly and policy debate about China's ongoing and increasingly ambitious strategies and actions in its pursuit of the green energy transition.

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.

Many international obligations are subject to exceptions.

This book explores the regulatory challenges posed by the changing landscape of electricity trade to the multilateral trading system.

Why would political leaders shutter entire industries, decimate local economies, and destroy jobs just to clean up the air?

This text works to establish essential foundations and guidelines in the current process of providing strategies, mechanisms and resources for mitigating loss and damage from the adverse impacts of climate change and climate variability.

Volume 9 of the EYIEL focusses on natural resources law understood as a special area of international economic law.

A concise, clear, and legally rigorous introduction to international environmental law and practice covering the very latest developments.