Research Handbook on International Environmental Law

Edited by Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Professor of Public International Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK, Member of L’Institut de Droit International and Dr H.C. of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, David M. Ong, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Panos Merkouris, Professor, Chair on Interpretation and Dispute Settlement in International Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Contents:

Preface
Panos Merkouris

PART I: INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AS A SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
1. Actors and Law-making in International Environmental Law
Mark A. Drumbl

2. International Framework for Environmental Decision-making
Geir Ulfstein

PART II: THEORIES AND CONCEPTS OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
3. Sustainable Development
Duncan French

4. Environment and Development: Friends or Foes in the 21st Century?
Paolo Galizzi and Alena Herklotz

5. Implementing Intergenerational Equity
Edith Brown Weiss

6. An Introduction to Ethical Considerations in International Environmental Law
Alexander Gillespie

7. The World Bank and Sustainable Development
David Freestone

8. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities
Philippe Cullet

9. The Principles of Prevention and Precaution in International Law: Two Heads of the Same Coin?
Nicolas de Sadeleer

PART III: SUBSTANTIVE PRINCIPLES
10. The Precautionary Principle
Minna Pyhälä, Anne Christine Brusendorff and Hanna Paulomäki

11. Environmental Impact Assessment
Olufemi Elias

12. The Polluter-Pays Principle
Priscilla Schwartz

PART IV: HUMAN RIGHTS TO A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT
13. Human Rights and the Environment: Substantive Rights
Dinah Shelton

14. Human Rights to a Clean Environment: Procedural Rights
Jona Razzaque

PART V: RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HARM
15. Responsibility for Environmental Damage
Phoebe Okowa

16. International Liability for Damage to the Environment
Louise Angélique de La Fayette

17. Corporate Liability for Environmental Harm
Amanda Perry-Kessaris

PART VI: DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AND COMPLIANCE
18. Settlement of International Environmental Law Disputes
Natalie Klein

19. Environmental Disputes in the WTO
Joanna Gomula

20. Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms
Gerhard Loibl

21. International Legal Efforts to Address Human-Induced Global Climate Change
David M. Ong

22. Filling The Holes: The Montreal Protocol’s Non-Compliance Mechanism
Feja Lesniewska

PART VII: BIODIVERSITY
23. Environmental Protection and the Concept of Common Concern of Mankind
Michael Bowman

24. International Environmental Law Governing Threats to Biological Diversity
David M. Ong

25. Fisheries and Marine Biodiversity
Richard Barnes

PART VIII: SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGIMES
26. The 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and Marine Environmental Protection
David M. Ong

27. Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict
Karen Hulme

28. The Relationship between the Law of International Watercourses and Sustainable Development
Malgosia Fitzmaurice

29. International Chemicals and Waste Management
Katharina Kummer Peiry

30. Drilling at the Poles: Environmental Protection in the Antarctic and the Arctic
Karen N. Scott

Index