Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
Environmental Mediation: An International Survey
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Choquette, Véronique Fraser
December 12, 2019
Environmental mediation continues to develop and evolve in different jurisdictions across the world in order to prevent potential environmental conflicts or to resolve the conflicts while avoiding the inherent drawbacks of an adjudicated solution. This book takes a comparative approach to explore ...
International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Shawkat Alam, Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Jona Razzaque
December 12, 2019
International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability provides a clear and concise insight into the relationship between the institutions that govern foreign investment, sustainable development and the rules and regulations that administer natural resources. In this book, several ...
Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Compliance: The Benefits of Administrative Procedures
1st Edition
By Anna Huggins
December 12, 2019
The adoption of administrative procedures in global governance has the potential to foster proper consideration of marginalized actors’ interests, yet risks entrenching the dominance of the well-resourced and powerful. Accordingly, this book proposes a new framework for evaluating the extent to ...
Protecting Traditional Knowledge: The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Sustainable Development Principles in the Decisions of International Courts and Tribunals: 1992-2012
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Judge C.G. Weeramantry
January 08, 2018
The 2002 New Delhi Declaration of Principles of International Law relating to Sustainable Development set out seven principles on sustainable development, as agreed in treaties and soft-law instruments from before the 1992 Rio ‘Earth Summit’ UNCED, to the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on ...
Climate Change and Human Rights: An International and Comparative Law Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Ottavio Quirico, Mouloud Boumghar
December 21, 2017
Do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions affect human rights? Should fundamental rights constrain climate policies? Scientific evidence demonstrates that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions contribute to increasing atmospheric temperatures, soon passing the compromising threshold of 2° C. ...