Public international law: environment

This book provides empirical evidence that all States have a universally binding obligation to adopt national laws and international treaties to protect the marine environment, including the designation of Marine Protected Areas.

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.

The second edition of Dessler and Parson's acclaimed book provides an integrated treatment of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change.

This book examines the threat that climate change poses to the projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation.

This book explores a range of plausible futures for environmental law in the new era of the Earth's history: the Anthropocene.

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

The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.

This book identifies the most effective water policy tools and innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation by taking a comparative look at a world-leading 'laboratory' of water law and governance: Australia.

This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how.

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.

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

This book examines the nuances of the relationship between development and environmental conservation policy in India over the last three decades.

This book focuses on renegotiating extractive contracts to align with the net-zero goals.

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

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.

How you can solve the climate, energy and air pollution crises, without relying on ''miracle technologies''.

Should states intervene in situations outside of their own territory in order to safeguard or promote the common good?

Despite ever growing international trade and dispute settlement, a consistent international methodology of uniform private law has yet to be formed.

Winner of the SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2009.

This book investigates the role of cloud seeding laws in governing regional solar radiation management (SRM) activities.

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

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

A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

Provides the first scholarly and comprehensive book on the national renewable energy laws of every country that has them (113 countries).

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

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

Solar geoengineering could reduce climate change, but poses risks.

The first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals since their launch in 2015.

This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field.

This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

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

The volume gives an overview on how legislators all over the world have come up with different legal solutions for governing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and food security and provides a compact summary of the existing regulations in this field.

This book critically examines the extension of EU environmental legislation beyond EU borders through measures that determine access to the single market on the basis of processes that take place in third countries.

Tackles the politically sensitive, complex issues of climate change, development and development cooperation, offering theoretical, political, and practical perspectives.

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

This book applies a justice framework to analysis of the actual and potential role of international law with respect to people on the move in the context of anthropogenic climate change.

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

This book presents an important discussion on the implementation of sustainable soil management in Africa from a range of governance perspectives.

Over the last century, international law has sought to keep pace with sweeping changes that have revolutionised the international community.

This book analyzes the legal and economic situation concerning the removal and allocation of natural resources in the Caspian Sea - the largest enclosed body of salt water in the world, which not only constitutes a fragile ecosystem with tremendous fishery resources, but is also rich in oil and gas deposits.

International law has long been dominated by the State.

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

Perspective on the EU''s ability to maintain a leading position in climate change politics, and challenges of mitigation and adaptation.

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International Marine Mammal Law is a comprehensive, introductory volume on the legal regimes governing the conservation and utilisation of marine mammals.

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

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.

Neil Craik examines the structure and role of international environmental impact assessments.

Presents the first comprehensive reflection on the nature of environmental law scholarship from the perspectives of leading scholars in the field.

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.