Public international law: environment

Presents the first comprehensive study of Indigenous perspectives on genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and access and benefit sharing in Canada.

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

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences.

Livestock food systems need to be rapidly rethought to tackle the global climate crisis.

This work investigates law as an instrument to deal with the challenges of sea level rise.

This book offers an overview of environmental law from both an international and regional perspective, focusing on global issues while at the same time offering uniquely African insights.

Today, climate change is among the most hotly-debated topics.

This book proposes that fundamental concepts of institutional law need to be rethought and revised.

Designed and modeled after a six-week introductory food law course taught at Northeastern University, Food Law and Regulation for Non-Lawyers offers a succinct overview of key topics and core concepts for food scientists, quality managers, and others who need to understand the regulation of food in the U.

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

Brings together a collection of papers from academia, government, and policy think tanks on US energy tax policy.

An argument that secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—are political actors in their own right.

Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern.

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

This book examines the US Water Quality Act to determine state choice in water infrastructure policy, for researchers and policymakers.

Explores how the law of the sea can develop in support of the objectives of the United Nations climate regime.

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

While civil society and social movements claim for more effective measures to cope with anthropogenic climate change, legal scholars are witnessing the "e;aurora"e; of climate change law.

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.

This book examines the role of The International Maritime Organization (IMO) in the prevention and control of pollution of the marine environment from vessels with a particular reference to the current north-south tensions regarding the strategy for combating climate change in the maritime sector as well as the prevention of marine pollution from the ship-breaking industry.

In international law, as in any other legal system, respect and protection of human rights can be guaranteed only by the availability of effective judicial remedies.

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

Energy justice has emerged over the last decade as a matter of vital concern in energy law, which can be seen in the attention directed to energy poverty, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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

A multidisciplinary approach to transforming biodiversity governance to combat the failure of current efforts and halt biodiversity loss.

The first volume on critical social and political studies of climate change for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of how governments in vulnerable regions respond to climate migrations.

A study of energy regulation in international trade law against the backdrop of energy markets that have undergone radical change.

This book describes and examines three EU legal frameworks (EU competition law, EU consumer law, and EU fundamental rights law) that may affect the extent to which consumers purchase more sustainably.

This work analyses fairness dimensions of the climate regime.

Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation.

Critically examines whether and how local and experimental action can deliver significant and transformative ways of tackling climate change.

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

Under the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention, States have sovereign rights over the resources of their continental shelf out to 200 nautical miles from the coast.

This book builds on the scholarship of the law of state jurisdiction, engaging with fundamental questions about states' legislative competence, to respond to climate change.

Presents the first comprehensive study of Indigenous perspectives on genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and access and benefit sharing in Canada.

In this book, eleven prominent authorities on climate change consider the legal, policy and philosophical issues presented by geoengineering.

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.

This book provides legal interpretation of the TRIPS Agreement for facilitating innovation of and access to environmentally sound technologies.

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

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

This book addresses the causes of rising crime rates resulting from the rapid population growth and industrialization associated with natural resource extraction in rural communities.

The title 'Commercial Maritime Law' is a misnomer.

This book examines how constitutional laws aimed at protecting the environment are being implemented and applied throughout the world.

Addresses the global turn toward human rights-based litigation to push governments and corporations to ambitiously address the climate emergency.

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

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

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