Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and acknowledgments to the first edition
- Preface and acknowledgments to the second edition
- Table of cases
- Table of treaties and other international instruments
- List of abbreviations
- PART I The legal and institutional framework
- PART II Principles and rules establishing standards
- 6 General principles and rules
- 7 Human rights and armed conflict
- 8 Atmosphere
- 9 Oceans and seas
- 10 Freshwater resources
- 11 Biological diversity
- 12 Hazardous substances and activities
- 13 Waste
- 14 The polar regions: Antarctica and the Arctic
- 15 European Community environmental law
- PART III Techniques for implementing international principles and rules
- Index
8 - Atmosphere
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and acknowledgments to the first edition
- Preface and acknowledgments to the second edition
- Table of cases
- Table of treaties and other international instruments
- List of abbreviations
- PART I The legal and institutional framework
- PART II Principles and rules establishing standards
- 6 General principles and rules
- 7 Human rights and armed conflict
- 8 Atmosphere
- 9 Oceans and seas
- 10 Freshwater resources
- 11 Biological diversity
- 12 Hazardous substances and activities
- 13 Waste
- 14 The polar regions: Antarctica and the Arctic
- 15 European Community environmental law
- PART III Techniques for implementing international principles and rules
- Index
Summary
H. Taubenfeld, ‘International Environmental Law: Air and Outer Space’, 13 Natural Resources Journal 315 (1973); D. Gelsom, Atmospheric Pollution: A Global Problem (1992); G. Wetstone and A. Rosencrantz, ‘Transboundary Air Pollution: The Search for an International Response’, 8 Harvard Environmental Law Review 89 (1984); C. Flinterman et al. (eds.), Transboundary Air Pollution: International Legal Aspects of the Co-operation of States (1986); J. Brunnee, Acid Rain and Ozone Layer Depletion: International Law and Regulation (1988); P. Okowa, State Responsibility for Transboundary Air Pollution in International Law (2000)
Introduction
The protection of the atmosphere was a relative latecomer to international environment regulation but is now well established. With limited exceptions, until 1979 no treaty sought, as its primary purpose, to place limits on the right of states to allow atmospheric emissions which caused environmental damage. Some treaties had, however, called for general preventive strategies. Since 1979, numerous treaties and other international acts have addressed the protection of the atmosphere. Although there is no atmospheric equivalent to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, international legal instruments have been adopted at the regional and global level which address a range of issues, including: transboundary pollution by sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds; the protection of the ozone layer; the prevention of climate change; and the protection of the environment of outer space.
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- Principles of International Environmental Law , pp. 317 - 390Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003