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Author: Neil Craik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-08-31
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1108496229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA full examination of global legal rules governing liability for environmental harm in areas beyond the national jurisdiction of states.
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Publisher: Sage
Published: 2020-08
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9789353883638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal Commons: Issues, Concerns and Strategies presents a comprehensive international perspective on the global commons - natural resource domains that are not subject to national jurisdictions and are accessible to all nations. These include the oceans, atmosphere and outer space, and specific locations such as Antarctica. Due to their critical importance in maintaining human lives and livelihoods, and their vulnerability to depletion, the collaborative preservation of the global commons is of great relevance to all human communities. Leading world powers, such as France, are increasingly adopting environmental policies as key to their functioning as democracies. After the Paris Climate Conference, there has been a spurt in cooperation between major nations, such as France and India, in the fight against climate change. This book provides exhaustive coverage of all the major facets of preservation of the global commons. It will, therefore, prove indispensable to all stakeholders in a new, just and sustainable world order.
Author: Jorge E. Viñuales
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-02-05
Total Pages: 831
ISBN-13: 0191510424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result. The 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was an emphatic attempt to address this issue, setting down 27 key principles for the international community to follow. These principles define the rights of people to sustainable development, and the responsibilities of states to safeguard the common environment. The Rio Declaration established that long term economic progress required a connection to environmental protection. It was designed as an authoritative and comprehensive statement of the principles of sustainable development law, an instrument to take stock of the past international and domestic practice, a guide for the design of new multilateral environmental regimes, and as a reference for litigation. This commentary provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the principles of the Declaration, written by over thirty inter-disciplinary contributors, including both leading practitioners and academics. Each principle is analysed in light of its origins and rationale. The book investigates each principle's travaux préparatoires setting out the main points of controversy and the position of different countries or groups. It analyses the scope and dimensions of each principle, providing an in-depth understanding of its legal effects, including whether it can be relied before a domestic or international court. It also assesses the impact of the principles on subsequent soft law and treaty development, as well as domestic and international jurisprudence. The authors demonstrate the ways in which the principles interact with each other, and finally provide a detailed analysis of the shortcomings and future potential of each principle. This book will be of vital importance to practitioners, scholars, and students of international environomental law and sustainable development.
Author: Ved Nanda
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 9004242864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA significant contribution to the field, and a welcome addition to the growing literature on international environmental law and an important reference for every scholar, lawyer, and layperson interested in the field.
Author: Michael B. Gerrard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-12
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1107157277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to focus on the legal aspects of climate engineering, making recommendations for future laws and governance.
Author: André Nollkaemper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-02
Total Pages: 1229
ISBN-13: 1107107091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reviews the practice of shared responsibility in multiple issue areas of international law, to assess its application and development.
Author: Rebecca M. Bratspies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-14
Total Pages: 6
ISBN-13: 1139458434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reveals the many harms which flow across the ever-more porous sovereign borders of a globalising world. These harms expose weaknesses in the international legal regime built on sovereignty of nation states. Using the Trail Smelter Arbitration, one of the most cited cases in international environmental law, this book explores the changing nature of state responses to transboundary harm. Taking a critical approach, the book examines the arbitration's influence on international law generally, and international environmental law specifically. In particular, the book explores whether there are lessons from Trail Smelter that are useful for resolving transboundary challenges confronting the international community. The book collects the commentary of a distinguished set of international law scholars who consider the history of the Trail Smelter arbitration, its significance for international environmental law, its broader relationship to international law, and its resonance in fields beyond the environment.
Author: Reinhard Mechler
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-11-28
Total Pages: 563
ISBN-13: 3319720260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an authoritative insight on the Loss and Damage discourse by highlighting state-of-the-art research and policy linked to this discourse and articulating its multiple concepts, principles and methods. Written by leading researchers and practitioners, it identifies practical and evidence-based policy options to inform the discourse and climate negotiations. With climate-related risks on the rise and impacts being felt around the globe has come the recognition that climate mitigation and adaptation may not be enough to manage the effects from anthropogenic climate change. This recognition led to the creation of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage in 2013, a climate policy mechanism dedicated to dealing with climate-related effects in highly vulnerable countries that face severe constraints and limits to adaptation. Endorsed in 2015 by the Paris Agreement and effectively considered a third pillar of international climate policy, debate and research on Loss and Damage continues to gain enormous traction. Yet, concepts, methods and tools as well as directions for policy and implementation have remained contested and vague. Suitable for researchers, policy-advisors, practitioners and the interested public, the book furthermore: • discusses the political, legal, economic and institutional dimensions of the issue• highlights normative questions central to the discourse • provides a focus on climate risks and climate risk management. • presents salient case studies from around the world.
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780195531916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. Lefeber
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 1996-06-03
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9789041102751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn-going deterioration of the state of the environment and the continuous risk of an environmental disaster has forced society to reconsider its environmental and developmental objectives. For economic and environmental reasons, the costs of prevention and reparation of environmental harm should be channelled to the polluter. However, such channelling may run counter to legal principles. This work scrutinizes this field of tension between economic and legal principles at state level. It provides a unique analysis of traditional thinking on state liability for transboundary harm and the theories which have challenged it since the proliferation of hazardous activities in the 1960s. The author favours a return to traditional thinking, but has an eye for the theories that challenged it with the aim of safeguarding the compensation of victims of transboundary harm.
