Public international law: environment

This book provides original critical insights into climate politics and new directions for society''s response, for researchers, advanced students and policy makers.

The last decade has witnessed an increasing focus on the relationship between climate change and human rights.

Presents a cutting edge overview of tackling and adapting to climate change, written by a lead member of the IPCC.

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.

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

Presents a cutting edge overview of tackling and adapting to climate change, written by a lead member of the IPCC.

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

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

The doctrines of waiver, variation and estoppel are relied upon to justify or criticize a party's changed position as to its contractual obligations.

A detailed overview of the law-and-economics methodology developed and employed by environmental lawyers and policymakers.

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.

In this unique, forward-looking Handbook, global legal observers assess the existence and emergence of under-researched disaster risk reduction law''.

This book assesses the current state of environmental protection under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), twenty years after ratification.

Scientists have long been searching for a unified field theory--one answer to all of the questions about the physical universe.

This 2005 volume presents research on the crucial issues concerning energy law, that are facing the international community.

A comprehensive, global review of the impact ships have on the environment, covering pollutant discharges, non-pollutant impacts and international legislation.

A stimulating, interdisciplinary contribution to the debate on management of global environmental change.

By providing a private international law analysis of a field in which international conventions coexist with national law and regional law, this book offers different theoretical and methodological insights into the conflict of laws and the conflict of jurisdictions, aiming ultimately at the juridical continuity of legal relations across national borders.

This book explores the allocation of risk and liability of dangerous goods between the seller and the buyer under CIF (Cost, Insurance and Freight) and FOB (Free on Board) contracts, providing an in-depth study of the issue of carriage of dangerous goods in the context of international trade law.

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

Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and has become one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century.

At a time of profound change and rethinking, this book provides insights into how environmental law in the UK has developed into its current form, and considers challenges it will face in the future.

In this 2005 book, Alan Khee-Jin Tan investigates the political, economic and social forces influencing the IMO treaties and laws.

REDD+ operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South.

An account of everyday justice and the factors that shape it in the battle to seek legal relief for environmental pollution in China.

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

The second edition of this leading reference work provides a comprehensive discussion of the dynamic and important field of international law concerned with environmental protection.

This groundbreaking book collects contributions from many of the world's leading climate and energy law scholars and provides the first major study of national Climate Change Acts.

An objective and rigorous analysis of climate change liability law in eighteen jurisdictions around the world.

This book identifies and examines the legal challenges facing the shipping industry and ship management today.

For the last few thousand years, humanity has struggled to achieve sustainable development.

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

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

This text is an ideal starting point to understand the regulatory regimes and policy challenges relevant to Australia''s mining sector.

This book examines the extent to which international law places obligations directly on corporate entities.

This book argues for a reframing of environmental law.

The objective of this book is to identify similarities and differences between the positions of Finland (as an EU Member State) and China, on Arctic law and governance.

This book assesses the current state of environmental protection under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), twenty years after ratification.

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.

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

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

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is increasingly viewed as one of the most significant ways of dealing with greenhouse gas emissions.

Shows how bold action by governments can protect human health and lead us to a sustainable future.

Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and has become one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century.

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 shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.

Once the exclusive prerogative of domaine reserve, landscape has gained increasing importance in international law in recent years.

An examination of the problems of transnational environmental damage.

This book focuses on how public and private international law address civil liability for transboundary pollution.