Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
Sustainable Fisheries Management and International Law: Marine Fisheries in Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal
1st Edition
By Abdullah-Al Arif
January 29, 2024
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the legal and policy frameworks for marine fisheries management and examines the efficiency of the institutions responsible for the formulation, implementation and enforcement of marine fisheries laws and policies in Bangladesh. Sustainable management ...
Nature Law and Policy in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew L. R. Jackson
April 26, 2023
This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law and policy in Europe. Following the Fitness Check evaluation of the Birds and Habitats Directives, in 2017 the EU adopted an Action Plan for nature, people and the economy to rapidly improve the Directives’ implementation and ...
Climate Change Law, Technology Transfer and Sustainable Development
1st Edition
By Md Mahatab Uddin
January 09, 2023
This book explores the possibilities and scope of facilitating innovation and transfer of the environmentally sound technologies in the Post-Paris climate era. The possibilities to be explored by the book will first focus on the roles of the climate finance and technological cooperation mechanisms ...
International Environmental Law Compliance in Context: Mechanisms and Case Studies
1st Edition
By Belen Olmos Giupponi
January 09, 2023
This book explores how compliance with international environmental law has changed over time, offering a critical analysis of its current shifting patterns. Beginning with an overview of compliance with international environmental law, the book goes on to explore in detail: compliance in the ...
Conserving Europe's Wildlife: Law and Policy of the Natura 2000 Network of Protected Areas
1st Edition
By Andrew L.R. Jackson
July 31, 2020
The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU’s entire land territory plus large marine areas. This vast EU-wide network, which aims to conserve Europe’s most valuable and threatened species and...
Protecting Traditional Knowledge: The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
1st Edition
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By Daniel F. Robinson, Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Pedro Roffe
April 15, 2019
This is the first comprehensive review of the Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) established in 2000. It provides an in-depth consideration of the key thematic areas within WIPO discussions – genetic resources (GRs), traditional knowledge (TK) ...
Ecological Restoration in International Environmental Law
1st Edition
By Anastasia Telesetsky, An Cliquet, Afshin Akhtar-Khavari
January 10, 2019
Human activities are depleting ecosystems at an unprecedented rate. In spite of nature conservation efforts worldwide, many ecosystems including those critical for human well-being have been damaged or destroyed. States and citizens need a new vision of how humans can reconnect with the natural ...
Environmental Law and the Ecosystem Approach: Maintaining ecological integrity through consistency in law
1st Edition
By Froukje Maria Platjouw
August 14, 2018
The ecosystem approach embodies a concept of the environment which emphasizes the integrated components of nature as complex adaptive systems. This book examines the relationship between the architecture and design of environmental law and the implementation of the ecosystem approach as a means to ...
Ecological Integrity and Global Governance: Science, ethics and the law
1st Edition
By Laura Westra
June 08, 2018
It is increasingly argued that a focus on environmental sustainability is fundamental to effective and equitable governance, and ultimately for the good of mankind. This book argues that, in the face increasing environmental challenges, it is essential to recognise the role that ecological ...
Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
By Sumudu Atapattu
June 01, 2018
Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue until recently. This book examines the link...
Responsibilities and Liabilities for Commercial Activity in the Arctic: The Example of Greenland
1st Edition
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By Vibe Ulfbeck, Anders Møllmann, Bent Ole Gram Mortensen
June 01, 2018
Given the magnitude of the risks associated with commercial activities in the Arctic arising as a result of the milder climate, new business opportunities raise important questions of responsibility and liability. This book analyses the issues of responsibility and liability connected with the ...
Stratospheric Ozone Damage and Legal Liability: US public policy and tort litigation to protect the ozone layer
1st Edition
By Lisa Elges
June 01, 2018
While government enforcement of laws and regulations to control the production of chloroflurocarbons in 1987 has been hailed as exemplifying the precautionary principle, for almost two decades US companies failed to take precautionary measures to prevent chemical emissions, despite the probable ...