Fifty Years of International Environmental Law : Developments since the 1972 Stockholm Conference.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebbesson, Jonas.

Contributor:

Langlet, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972 : Stockholm, Sweden).

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.

Environmental law, International--History.

Environmental law, International.

Environmental law--Sweden--History.

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (578 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"This book explores the seminal importance of the first UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972 - the Stockholm Conference - for the development of international environmental law. By bringing together world leading experts from academia and legal practice the book charts the development of international environmental law in the 50 years since the 1972 in multiple areas, such as nature and biodiversity, oceans and water, and atmosphere and climate, as well as crosscutting issues like the environmental governance architecture, and human rights and participatory rights in environmental matters. It analyses how the ideas and concepts of the Stockholm Conference have influenced this development and explores the novel ideas that have emerged since then. It describes the approaches of the developed and developing countries in this process and the relationship between international environmental law and other areas of law, such as the law of the sea and international economic law"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Stockholm 1972 and the Birth of International Sustainable Development Law / Nico Schrijver

The Missed Link between International Economic Law and Social and Environmental Issues / Ellen Hey

On the International Environmental Governance Architecture : Looking Back to Look Ahead for Our Common Future / Bharat H. Desai

Litigating Human Rights and the Environment in International Tribunals 1972-2022 : How Far Have We Progressed? / Dinah Shelton

Environmental Rule of Law : From Stockholm 1972 to 2022 and Beyond / Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Alvin Gachie, Leonie Geene, Macharia Kaguru, Jan Maina

The Development of Environmental Access Rights and Protection of Environmental Defenders / Ben Boer and Rowena Cantley-Smith

Unrealised Ambition or Unattainable Goal? Sustainable Consumption and Production in International Law / Eva R. van der Marel and Catherine Redgwell

International Regulation and the Management of Mining since the 1972 Stockholm Conference : From Local to Global Concerns / Timo Koivurova

Chemicals and Wastes in International Environmental Policy and Law : From Trail Smelter to a Circular Economy / Katharina Kummer Peiry

The Unfinished Agenda of Stockholm 1972 : A Rights-based Approach to Chemicals and Wastes / Marcos A. Orellana

The Dynamics of International and European Union Law on Waste and Chemicals : Past, Present, and Future / Carl Dalhammar

Implementing Principle 21 of the Stockholm Declaration : Regional Efforts to Regulate Transboundary Air Pollution / Phoebe Okowa and Sean O’Reilly

Climate Protection 50 Years after Stockholm : International Law at the Precipice / Jutta Brunnée

A Southern State of Mind : From Being ‘Mindful of … Effects on Climate’ to Climate Litigation in the Global South / Jacqueline Peel

Trade and Atmospheric Protection at Stockholm+50 : Plus ça Change? / Harro van Asselt

The Stockholm Declaration at Sea : Influences on the Content and Context of the Law of the Sea / Richard Barnes

Linking International Regimes on Oceans and Fresh Water since the 1972 Stockholm Conference : The Case of Preventing Land-based Marine Plastic Pollution via International Watercourses / Yoshifumi Tanaka

The Progressive Development of International Biodiversity Law from the 1972 Stockholm Conference to the Synergistic Protection of Biodiversity and Human Rights, Including at the Ocean-Climate Nexus / Elisa Morgera

Aspirations of Developing Countries in Biodiversity Treaty-Making Processes : Dreams Deferred? / Dire D. Tladi

The Influence of the Stockholm Conference on the Development of Nature Protection Law at an International Level and in Europe / Nicolas de Sadeleer

Fifty Years of International Law-Making on the Environment : Women Shaping Legal Principles and Solidarity / Claudia Ituarte-Lima.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-009-44574-X