Law and Climate Change
Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Regime
Edited by: Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto
Edited by: Meinhard Doelle, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Edited by: Lavanya Rajamani, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
As the contours of a post-2012 climate regime begin to emerge, compliance issues will require increasing attention. This volume considers the questions that the trends in the climate negotiations raise for the regime's compliance system.
6 b/w illus. 1 table
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
978-0-521-60243-3 Paperback £30.00
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Climate Change Liability
Transnational Law and Practice
Edited by: Richard Lord, Brick Court Chambers
Edited by: Silke Goldberg, Herbert Smith LLP
Edited by: Lavanya Rajamani, Centre for Policy Research
Edited by: Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto
As frustration mounts in some quarters at the perceived inadequacy or speed of international action on climate change, and as the likelihood of significant impacts grows, the focus is increasingly turning to liability for climate change damage.
3 b/w illus. 1 table
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.99kg
978-1-107-67366-3 Paperback £31.99
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Greening EU Competition Law and Policy
Suzanne Kingston, University College Dublin
One of the fundamental challenges currently facing the EU is that of reconciling its economic and environmental policies. Nevertheless, the role of environmental protection in EU competition law and policy has often been overlooked.
490 pages
1 b/w illus.
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.9kg
978-0-521-60243-3 Hardback £75.00
Migration and Climate Change
Edited by: Étienne Piguet, Université de Neuchatel, Switzerland
Edited by: Antoine Pécoud, UNESCO
Edited by: Paul de Guchteneire, UNESCO
Migration and Climate Change provides the first authoritative overview of the relationship between climate change and migration. It brings together both case studies and syntheses from different parts of the world and critically discusses empirical evidence, methodological challenges, conceptual gaps, policy responses, and normative issues.
462 pages
11 b/w illus. 11 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.85kg
978-1-107-01485-5 Hardback £60.00
The Amazon from an International Law Perspective
Beatriz Garcia, Centre for Climate and Environmental Law, University of Sydney
With a vast river network and rainforests extending over eight South American countries, the Amazon plays a vital role particularly in maintaining biodiversity and terrestrial carbon storage. Due to its ecological characteristics, the Amazon benefits not only those countries but also the international community at large.
404 pages
2 b/w illus. 6 maps 25 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.64kg
978-0-521-76962-4 Hardback £60.00
Multilevel Governance of Global Environmental Change
Perspectives from Science, Sociology and the Law
Edited by: Gerd Winter, Universität Bremen
Originally published in 2006, this collection is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research project involving scholars in the fields of international and comparative environmental law, the sociology and politics of global governance, and the scientific study of global climate change. Earth system analysis as developed by the natural sciences is transferred to the analysis of institutions of global environmental change.
654 pages
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.95kg
978-0-521-17343-8 Hardback £35.00
Science and the Precautionary Principle in International Courts and Tribunals
Expert Evidence, Burden of Proof and Finality
Caroline E. Foster, University of Auckland
By canvassing a range of international scientific disputes, including the EC-Biotech and EC-Hormones disputes in the WTO, the Case concerning Pulp Mills and the Gabcíkovo–Nagymaros case in the International Court of Justice, and the Mox Plant and Land Reclamation cases dealt with under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Caroline Foster examines how the precautionary principle can be accommodated within the rules about proof and evidence and advises on the boundary emerging between the roles of experts and tribunals.
400 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.75kg
978-0-521-51326-5 Hardback £70.00
Governing Risk in GM Agriculture
Edited by: Michael Baram, Boston University Law School
Edited by: Mathilde Bourrier, University of Geneva
This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture. It examines the evolution of policies intended to ensure the safety of GM crops and food products in the United States and Europe and the regulatory approaches and other social controls employed to protect human health, the environment, conventional farming and foods, and the interests and rights of consumers.
288 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.51kg
978-1-107-00147-3 Hardback £55.00
The International Law of Environmental Impact Assessment
Process, Substance and Integration
Neil Craik, University of New Brunswick
The central idea animating environmental impact assessment (EIA) is that decisions affecting the environment should be made through a comprehensive evaluation of predicted impacts. Notwithstanding their evaluative mandate, EIA processes do not impose specific environmental standards, but rely on the creation of open, participatory and information rich decision-making settings to bring about environmentally benign outcomes.
356 pages
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.52kg
978-0-521-18406-9 Hardback £30.00
Lyster's International Wildlife Law
2nd Edition
Michael Bowman, University of Nottingham
Peter Davies, University of Nottingham
Catherine Redgwell, University College London
The development of international wildlife law has been one of the most significant exercises in international law-making during the last fifty years. This second edition of Lyster's International Wildlife Law coincides with both the UN Year of Biological Diversity and the twenty-fifth anniversary of Simon Lyster's first edition.
784 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 1.2kg
978-0-521-52729-3 Paperback £45.00
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Science and Risk Regulation in International Law
Jacqueline Peel, Melbourne Law School
The regulation of risk is a preoccupation of contemporary global society and an increasingly important part of international law in areas ranging from environmental protection to international trade.
416 pages
4 b/w illus.
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.78kg
978-0-521-76863-4 Hardback £65.00
Multilateral Environmental Agreement
Legal Status of the Secretariats
Bharat H. Desai, Jawaharlal Nehru University
The present study seeks to examine the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) - in-built law-making mechanisms and processes of institutionalization - and their ad hoc treaty-based status and the issue of the legal personality of their secretariats.
344pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.65kg
978-0-521-88328-3 Hardback £59.00
Beyond Environmental Law
Policy Proposals for a Better Environmental Future
Edited by: Alyson C. Flournoy, University of Florida
Edited by: David M. Driesen, Syracuse University, New York
This book offers a vision for the third generation of environmental law designed to enhance its ability to protect our environment. The book presents two core proposals, an Environmental Legacy Act to preserve a defined environmental legacy for future generations and an Environmental Competition Statute to spark movement to new clean technologies.
294 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.47kg
978-0-521-74432-4 Paperback £20.99
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Toxic Loopholes
Failures and Future Prospects for Environmental Law
Craig Collins, California State University, East Bay
The EPA was established to enforce the environmental laws Congress enacted during the 1970s. Yet today lethal toxins still permeate our environment, causing widespread illness and even death. Toxic Loopholes investigates these laws, and the agency charged with their enforcement, to explain why they have failed to arrest the nation's rising environmental crime wave and clean up the country's land, air and water.
288 pages
2 b/w illus.
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.46kg
978-0-521-14302-8 Paperback £20.99
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Human Security and Non-Citizens
Law, Policy and International Affairs
Edited by: Alice Edwards, University of Oxford
Edited by: Carla Ferstman, The Redress Trust, London
The past decades have seen enormous changes in our perceptions of 'security', the causes of insecurity and the measures adopted to address them. Threats of terrorism and the impacts of globalisation and mass migration have shaped our identities, politics and world views.
640 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.97kg
978-0-521-73494-3 Hardback £29.99
Human Rights and Climate Change
Edited by: Stephen Humphreys, The International Council on Human Rights Policy, Geneva
As the effects of climate change continue to be felt, appreciation of its future transformational impact on numerous areas of public law and policy is set to grow. Among these, human rights concerns are particularly acute.
368 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.7kg
978-0-521-76276-2 Hardback £55.00
The Expropriation of Environmental Governance
Protecting Foreign Investors at the Expense of Public Policy
Kyla Tienhaara, Australian National University, Canberra
Recent years have seen an explosive increase in investor-state disputes resolved in international arbitration. This is significant not only in terms of the number of disputes that have arisen and the number of states that have been involved, but also in terms of the novel types of dispute that have emerged.
340 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.67kg
978-0-521-11487-5 Hardback £64.00
Fairness in International Climate Change Law and Policy
Friedrich Soltau
Originally published in 2009, this work analyses fairness dimensions of the climate regime. A central issue in international law and policy is how countries of the world should allocate the burden of addressing global climate change.
304pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.62kg
978-0-521-11108-9 Hardback £59.00
International Trade Regulation and the Mitigation of Climate Change
World Trade Forum
Edited by: Thomas Cottier, World Trade Institute, Switzerland
Edited by: Olga Nartova, World Trade Institute, Switzerland
Edited by: Sadeq Z. Bigdeli, World Trade Institute, Switzerland
456 pages
3 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.84kg
978-0-521-76619-7 Hardback £75.00
Governance for the Environment
New Perspectives
Edited by: Magali A. Delmas, University of California, Los Angeles
Edited by: Oran R. Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
We live in an era of human-dominated ecosystems in which the demand for environmental governance is rising rapidly. At the same time, confidence in the capacity of governments to meet this demand is waning. How can we address the resultant governance deficit and achieve sustainable development? This book brings together perspectives from economics, management, and political science in order to identify innovative approaches to governance and bring them to bear on environmental issues.
300 pages
4 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.48kg
978-0-521-74300-6 Hardback £20.99
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The Human Right to a Green Future
Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice
Richard P. Hiskes, University of Connecticut
This book presents an argument for environmental human rights as the basis of intergenerational environmental justice. It argues that the rights to clean air, water, and soil should be seen as the environmental human rights of both present and future generations.
182 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.35kg
978-0-521-69614-2 Paperback £20.99
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Environmental Law and Justice in Context
Edited by: Jonas Ebbesson, Stockholms Universitet
Edited by: Phoebe Okowa, Queen Mary, University of London
This innovative collection of essays discusses the extent to which considerations of justice and fairness have permeated the legal debate on environmental protection.
496 pages
1 b/w illus.
Dimensions: 247 x 174 mm
Weight: 1.07kg
978-0-521-87968-2 Hardback £86.00
International Courts and Environmental Protection
Tim Stephens, University of Sydney
International environmental law has come of age, yet the global environment continues to deteriorate. The challenge of the twenty-first century is to reverse this process by ensuring that governments comply fully with their obligations, and progressively assume stricter duties to preserve the environment. This book is the first comprehensive examination of international environmental litigation.
458 pages
7 maps 3 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.86kg
978-0-521-88122-7 Hardback £68.00
Environmental Liability and Ecological Damage In European Law
Edited by: Monika Hinteregger, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
Providing a comprehensive analysis of environmental liability law in Europe, this book offers a general introduction to the status of environmental liability in Europe. It describes the relevant international treaties and the EC-Environmental Liability Directive and discusses the conflict of laws issues regarding transfrontier environmental damage.
760 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 1.34kg
978-0-521-88997-1 Hardback £104.00
The Changing International Law of High Seas Fisheries
Francisco Orrego Vicuña, Universidad de Chile
This book examines the international law of high seas fisheries in the light of the negotiations of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, the State and international practice that followed and its influence on the 1995 Straddling Stocks Agreement.
360 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.715kg
978-0-521-64193-7 Hardback £75.00
The Human Right to a Viable Environment
Sangini T. Ramnewash-Oemrawsingh, The Netherlands Council of State
Human rights tribunals are regularly confronted with complaints regarding human rights violations caused by environmental degradation. This book deals with the effectiveness of incorporating environmental dimensions into existing human rights and analyses the feasibility of a separate enforceable human right relating to the environment.
Dimensions: 245 x 175 mm
978-9-067-04322-9 Hardback c. £85.00
Adjudicating Climate Change
State, National, and International Approaches
Edited by: William C. G. Burns, Santa Clara University, School of Law
Edited by: Hari M. Osofsky, Washington and Lee University, Virginia
Courts have emerged as a crucial battleground in efforts to regulate climate change. Over the past several years, tribunals at every level of government around the world have seen claims regarding greenhouse gas emissions and impacts.
412pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.6kg
978-1-107-63866-2 Paperback £25.00
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Environmental Discourses in Public and International Law
Edited by: Brad Jessup, Australian National University, Canberra
Edited by: Kim Rubenstein, Australian National University, Canberra
This collection of essays examines the development and application of environmental laws and the relationship between public laws and international law. Notions of good governance, transparency and fairness in decision-making are analysed within the area of the law perceived as having the greatest potential to address today's global environmental concerns.
3 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
978-1-107-01942-3 Hardback c. £95.00
Implementing EU Pollution Control
Law and Integration
Bettina Lange, University of Oxford
Through a detailed analysis this book examines the role of law in European Union integration processes through the implementation of the EU Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control at European Level and in the UK and Germany.
344 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.678kg
978-0-521-88398-6 Hardback £74.00
Energy Law and the Environment
Rosemary Lyster, University of Sydney
Adrian Bradbrook, University of Adelaide
The current unsustainable practices worldwide in energy production and consumption have led to a plethora of environmental problems. Until recently environmental law largely overlooked the relevance of energy production and consumption; energy was seen to be of little significance to the advancement of sustainable development.
264 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.386kg
978-0-521-84368-3 Hardback £29.95
Sharing Transboundary Resources
International Law and Optimal Resource Use
Eyal Benvenisti, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Why do states often fail to cooperate, using transboundary natural resources inefficiently and unsustainably? Benvenisti examines the contemporary international norms and policy recommendations that could provide incentives for states to cooperate. His approach is multi-disciplinary, proposing transnational institutions for the management of transboundary resources.
298pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.617kg
978-0-521-64098-5 Hardback £68.00
Sovereignty over Natural Resources
Balancing Rights and Duties
Nico Schrijver, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
In modern international law, permanent sovereignty over natural resources has come to entail duties as well as rights. This study analyses the evolution of permanent sovereignty from a political claim to a principle of international law, and examines its significance for a number of controversial issues such as people's rights, nationalization and environmental conservation.
484 pages
5 tables
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.88kg
978-0-521-56269-0 Hardback £115.00
Trade and the Environment
A Comparative Study of EC and US Law
Damien Geradin, Université de Liège, Belgium
Trade and the Environment is a penetrating analysis of the relation between trade and environmental protection policies in the EC and the US. It argues that the international tensions arising from policies designed to protect trade and the environment can be resolved by the free trade provisions of the EC Treaty and the US Constitution, and from the setting of common environmental standards for all parties.
260 pages
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 0.55kg
978-0-521-59012-9 Hardback £65.00
Principles of International Environmental Law
3rd Edition
Philippe Sands, University College London
Jacqueline Peel, University of Melbourne
The third edition of this classic textbook offers comprehensive and critical commentary on international environmental law. It fully covers the key topics of the course and is clearly structured to include the history and framework in which international environmental law exists, key areas of regulation and implementation, links to other areas of law and future developments.
Dimensions: 247 x 174 mm
978-0-521-14093-5 Paperback c. £38.00
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