Research Handbook on International Environmental Law

Edited by Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Professor of International Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK, Marcel Brus, Professor of Public International Law and Panos Merkouris, Professor, Chair on Interpretation and Dispute Settlement in International Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands with Assistant Editor Agnes Rydberg, Lecturer in International Law, University of Sheffield, UK

Contents:

Preface xi

PART I THEORIES, CONCEPTS AND ACTORS OF
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND GOVERNANCE
1 Actors and law-making in international environmental law 2
Mark A. Drumbl and Kateřina Uhlířová
2 Participation of non-State actors and global civil society in international
environmental law-making and governance 46
Otto Spijkers
3 Corporate responsibility for environmental harm 63
Markos Karavias
4 International framework for environmental decision-making 84
Geir Ulfstein
5 An introduction to ethical considerations in international environmental law 107
Alexander Gillespie

PART II PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
6 Sustainable development 131
Duncan French
7 The principles of prevention and precaution in international law: two
heads of the same coin? 152
Nicolas de Sadeleer
8 Environmental impact assessment 189
Olufemi Elias and Meagan Wong
9 Common but differentiated responsibilities 210
Philippe Cullet

PART III DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AND COMPLIANCE
10 Settlement of international environmental law disputes 231
Natalie Klein and Danielle Kroon
11 Environmental disputes in the WTO 260
Joanna Gomula
12 Compliance procedures and mechanisms 294
Gerhard Loibl

PART IV HUMAN RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
13 International climate law 322
Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial
14 Human rights and the environment: substantive rights 345
Karen Morrow
15 Domestic climate litigation’s turn to human rights and international climate law 368
Marlies Hesselman
16 Environmental protection in armed conflict 394
Karen Hulme and Doug Weir

PART V SELECTED ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGIMES
17 The relationship between the law of international watercourses and
sustainable development 415
Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Virginie Barral
18 International chemicals and waste management 443
Katharina Kummer Peiry
19 Environmental protection in the Antarctic and the Arctic: the role of
international law 461
Kees Bastmeijer and Rachael Lorna Johnstone

Index