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This book critically explores the legal tools, concepts, principles
and instruments, as well as cross-cutting issues, that comprise the
field of international environmental law. Commencing with
foundational elements, progressing on to discrete sub-fields, then
exploring regional cooperative approaches, cross-cutting issues and
finally emerging challenges for international environmental law, it
features chapters by leading experts in the field of international
environmental law, drawn from a range of countries in order to put
forward a truly global approach to the subject. The book is split
into five parts: * The foundations of international environmental
law covering the principles of international environmental law,
standards and voluntary commitments, sustainable development,
issues of public participation and environmental rights and
compliance, state responsibility, liability and dispute settlement.
* The key instruments and governance arrangements across the most
critical areas of international environmental law: biodiversity,
wildlife, freshwater, forestry and soils, fisheries, marine
pollution, chemicals and waste, air and atmospheric pollution and
climate change. * Crucial developments in seven distinct regions of
the world: Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America, South East
Asia, the polar regions and small island states. * Cross-cutting
issues and multidisciplinary developments, drawing from multiple
other fields of law and beyond to address human rights and
Indigenous rights, war and armed conflict, trade, financing,
investment, criminology, technology and energy. * Contemporary
challenges and the emerging international environmental law regimes
which address these: the changing climate, forced migration, marine
plastic debris and future directions in international environmental
law. Containing chapters on the most critical developments in
environmental law in recent years, this comprehensive and
authoritative book makes for an essential reference work for
students, scholars and practitioners working in the field.
This book critically explores the legal tools, concepts, principles
and instruments, as well as cross-cutting issues, that comprise the
field of international environmental law. Commencing with
foundational elements, progressing on to discrete sub-fields, then
exploring regional cooperative approaches, cross-cutting issues and
finally emerging challenges for international environmental law, it
features chapters by leading experts in the field of international
environmental law, drawn from a range of countries in order to put
forward a truly global approach to the subject. The book is split
into five parts: * The foundations of international environmental
law covering the principles of international environmental law,
standards and voluntary commitments, sustainable development,
issues of public participation and environmental rights and
compliance, state responsibility, liability and dispute settlement.
* The key instruments and governance arrangements across the most
critical areas of international environmental law: biodiversity,
wildlife, freshwater, forestry and soils, fisheries, marine
pollution, chemicals and waste, air and atmospheric pollution and
climate change. * Crucial developments in seven distinct regions of
the world: Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America, South East
Asia, the polar regions and small island states. * Cross-cutting
issues and multidisciplinary developments, drawing from multiple
other fields of law and beyond to address human rights and
Indigenous rights, war and armed conflict, trade, financing,
investment, criminology, technology and energy. * Contemporary
challenges and the emerging international environmental law regimes
which address these: the changing climate, forced migration, marine
plastic debris and future directions in international environmental
law. Containing chapters on the most critical developments in
environmental law in recent years, this comprehensive and
authoritative book makes for an essential reference work for
students, scholars and practitioners working in the field.
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 environment. With its focus on the
long-term holistic recovery of ecosystems, ecological restoration
has received increasing attention in the past decade from both
scientists and policymakers. Research on the implications of
ecological restoration for the law and law for ecological
restoration has been largely overlooked. This is the first
published book to examine comprehensively the relationship between
international environmental law and ecological restoration. While
international environmental law (IEL) has developed significantly
as a discipline over the past four decades, this book enquires
whether IEL can now assist states in making a strategic transition
from not just protecting and maintaining the natural environment
but also actively restoring it. Arguing that states have
international duties to restore, this book offers reflections on
the philosophical context of ecological restoration and the legal
content of a duty to restore from an international law, European
Union law and national law perspective. The book concludes with a
discussion of several contemporary themes of interest to both
lawyers and ecologists including the role of private actors,
protected areas and climate change in ecological restoration.
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 environment. With its focus on the
long-term holistic recovery of ecosystems, ecological restoration
has received increasing attention in the past decade from both
scientists and policymakers. Research on the implications of
ecological restoration for the law and law for ecological
restoration has been largely overlooked. This is the first
published book to examine comprehensively the relationship between
international environmental law and ecological restoration. While
international environmental law (IEL) has developed significantly
as a discipline over the past four decades, this book enquires
whether IEL can now assist states in making a strategic transition
from not just protecting and maintaining the natural environment
but also actively restoring it. Arguing that states have
international duties to restore, this book offers reflections on
the philosophical context of ecological restoration and the legal
content of a duty to restore from an international law, European
Union law and national law perspective. The book concludes with a
discussion of several contemporary themes of interest to both
lawyers and ecologists including the role of private actors,
protected areas and climate change in ecological restoration.
Disasters can strike often and with unexpected fury, resulting in
devastating consequences for local populations that are
insufficiently prepared and largely dependent upon foreign aid in
the wake of such catastrophes. International law can play a
significant role in the recovery after inevitable natural
disasters; however, without clear legal frameworks, aid may be
stopped, delayed, or even hijacked placing the intended suffering
recipients in critical condition. This edited volume brings
together experts, emerging scholars, and practitioners in the field
of international disaster law from North America, Japan, New
Zealand, and Australia to analyze the evolution of international
disaster law as a field that encompasses new ideas about human
rights, sovereignty, and technology. Chapters focus on specific
natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, Cyclone Nargis, and
Typhoon Hainan in addition to volcanic and earthquake activity,
wildfires, and desertification. This book begins a dialogue on the
profound implications of the evolution of international law as a
tool for disaster response."
Disasters can strike often and with unexpected fury, resulting in
devastating consequences for local populations that are
insufficiently prepared and largely dependent upon foreign aid in
the wake of such catastrophes. International law can play a
significant role in the recovery after inevitable natural
disasters; however, without clear legal frameworks, aid may be
stopped, delayed, or even hijacked placing the intended suffering
recipients in critical condition. This edited volume brings
together experts, emerging scholars, and practitioners in the field
of international disaster law from North America, Japan, New
Zealand, and Australia to analyze the evolution of international
disaster law as a field that encompasses new ideas about human
rights, sovereignty, and technology. Chapters focus on specific
natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, Cyclone Nargis, and
Typhoon Hainan in addition to volcanic and earthquake activity,
wildfires, and desertification. This book begins a dialogue on the
profound implications of the evolution of international law as a
tool for disaster response."
With an increase in fishing, energy extraction, and shipping
activity, U.S. ocean and coastal areas are under increasing
pressures from even more intensive use and development. This
Nutshell, now in its 5th Edition, provides short summaries of
state, national, and international law and policy relevant to
practitioners and academics interested in the field of ocean and
coastal law. The most recent edition, updating legal developments
from previous editions, also offers new material on renewable
energy, current beach access controversies, the Deepwater Horizon
oil spill litigation, coastline adaptation to sea-level rise,
climate change, marine litter, international law of the sea
negotiations, and policy changes under President Trump's
administration.
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