Public international law: environment

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.

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

Shows readers how we can all help solve the climate crisis by focusing on a few key, achievable actions.

Presents a distinctly local idea of citizenship that, with the advance of globalization, often conflicts with national citizenship.

A systematic exploration of the underlying issues and negotiation history of climate change governance, for policymakers, NGOs, researchers and graduate students.

This book explores the private law implementation of the new international and EU regulatory framework targeting decarbonisation in the shipping industry.

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

This second edition of International Environmental Law, Policy, and Ethics revises and expands this groundbreaking study into the question of why the environment is protected in the international arena.

This book offers two major proposals for environmental law reform, laying the groundwork for a third generation of environmental law.

An overview of the obstacles to effective climate governance, including international relations, national politics and psychosocial factors.

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

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

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

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now.

Debattista on Bills of Lading in Commodity Trade provides not so much a linear road-map as a GPS system, allowing the reader to locate which aspect of the bill of lading is central to the dispute they are dealing with and evaluating that aspect from the perspective of each of: (1) the contract of sale; (2) carriage contract and (3) letter of credit.

Evaluates the fundamental legitimacy of judicial practice in the growing number of environmental cases heard before international courts.

Summarises and places in context the main provisions of the key documents in EC environmental law.

This book presents an argument for environmental human rights as the basis of intergenerational environmental justice.

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

International law has long been dominated by the State.

This book brings together original and novel perspectives on major developments in human rights law and the environment in Africa.

A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

A comprehensive legal analysis of how governance of human activities in developed states should be restructured to improve ecological protection.

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

This exploration of local and global conflicts over access to water provides a socio-legal perspective on transnational governance.

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

Global energy is on the cusp of change, and it has become almost a truism that energy is in transition.

This book presents a cohesive collection of contributions representing an African scholarly voice on some of the most burning and emerging topics and experiences regarding the implementation of REDD+ in Africa from a human rights perspective.

The Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters has been celebrated as a pioneering international environmental agreement.

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades.

The monograph analyzes international relations in the Arctic from two perspectives: cooperation and competition.

This book is a practical guide to the international, EC and UK law applying to the various uses of nuclear energy and radioactive substances.

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

This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics.

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.

Argues that international human rights and water laws provide legal bases for the right to water and its extraterritorial application.

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.

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

Maritime law is a subject of ancient vintage which is both evolutionary and revolutionary in the context of the current milieu.

An accessible, engagingly written book on Arctic environmental change and cooperation by an author intimately involved in Arctic science and policy.

This book examines the development and implementation of the EU's legislative framework on the commercial release of GMO products as a case study of social regulation operating within a predominantly technical framework.

Vessels very frequently serve under a long chain of charterparties and sub-charterparties.

An overview of the obstacles to effective climate governance, including international relations, national politics and psychosocial factors.

This book analyzes the law and policy for the management of global common resources.

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