Public international law: environment

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming.

The oceans cover more than seventy per cent of the surface of the planet and they provide many vital ecosystem services.

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

This book analyses the legal challenges facing international cooperation on water management in the twenty-first century.

The recent Brexit debates present leaving the European Union largely as a threat to environmental protection, and to environmental law.

National governments and private stakeholders have long recognized that protecting the global environment requires international cooperation.

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

This is the second volume in a series which has been founded by the Faculty of Law in the University of Western Ontario as a forum for presentation of research in law and related social sciences.

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

Enriches our understanding of how individuals, groups, and institutions can effectively cooperate to govern shared spaces and resources.

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

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

This book argues that legal geography provides new insights into contemporary conservation challenges.

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.

Investigates US environmental laws and the EPA to explain why they have failed to clean up the country''s land, air and water.

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

Provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of corporate law, corporate governance and sustainability.

This book addresses legal issues of rising seas endangering the habitability and existence of island nations in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

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

Natural resources and their effective management are necessary for securing the realisation of human rights.

Solar geoengineering could reduce climate change, but poses risks.

This United Nations report examines the current state of knowledge of the world''s oceans, for policymakers, and provides a reference for marine science courses.

An accessible synthesis of a decade of multidisciplinary research into how diverse actors exercise authority in environmental decision making.

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

Examines how international law perpetuates global environmental injustice and how the system can be fundamentally reworked to address ecological crises.

This important new monograph offers an innovative new analysis of the Aarhus Convention.

Genetically modified food is at the heart of a new global conflict over how to govern risky technologies in an era of globalization.

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

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

The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change.

The legal practices and process of the delimitation of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles.

The first modern title to cover the varied and complex world of ship management in the 21st century.

An overview of environmental human rights, and the complexities of uniting human rights advocacy and environmental protection.

This study examines the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).

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

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

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights, being formalized into law in many legal systems.

A detailed study of the engagement of state law with indigenous rights to water in comparative legal and policy contexts.

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.

This 2006 book shows the relevance of energy production and consumption to climate change and sustainable development.

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

This work analyses fairness dimensions of the climate regime.

Over the last four decades emissions trading has enjoyed a high profile in environmental law scholarship and in environmental law and policy.

Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law.

The first edition of this book was quickly acclaimed as the new leading text worldwide on the law and practice of pollution from ships.

Carriage of Goods by Sea provides an extensive comparative analysis of the carriage of goods by sea, examining the principles, regulation, responsibilities, obligations, and immunities within this area of English law, and other common law jurisdictions, in a single volume.

A comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of climate risks to water security for students, researchers, civil and environmental engineers, and management professionals.

In contrast to the views current only a few years ago, when federalism as a system of government was regarded, in academic circles in North America at least, as passe and even reactionary, there is today throughout the world, and especially in Western Europe, a tremendous interest in the federal idea.

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

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