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The future of international environmental law [electronic resource] / edited by David Leary and Balakrishna Pisupati.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental law, International.
- Pollution--Law and legislation--International cooperation.
- Pollution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : United Nations University, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through a collection essays by leading scholars in international environmental law from around the world, this book explores the future of international environmental law in a world of ever worsening environmental crises. It examines the success stories and the failures of international environmental law and argues that future responses to global environmental crisis will be more about good environmental governance rather than just more treaties and laws. Environmental governance in future will need to accommodate the needs and aspirations of peoples from developed and developing countries ali
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I: The experience to date; 2 Climate change and pollution: Addressing intersecting threats tooceans, coasts and small island developing states; 3 Biodiversity; 4 Implementation of environmental legal regimes at regionallevel: The case of the Mediterranean Sea; 5 Non-lawyers and legal regimes: Public participation forecologically sustainable development; 6 Human rights and the environment; Part II: International legal regimes in transition; 7 Development and the future of climate change law
- 8 A new ocean to govern: Drawing on lessons from marinemanagement to govern the emerging Arctic Ocean9 Moving beyond the tragedy of the global commons:The Grotian legacy and the future of sustainable managementof the biodiversity of the high seas; Part III: New emerging issues for international environmental law; 10 Emerging technologies: Nanotechnology; 11 Legal frameworks for emerging technologies: Bioenergy; 12 Synthetic biology and synthetic genomics; 13 Conclusion; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 92-808-7161-7
- OCLC:
- 697175274
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