Introduction to International Environmental Law

ISBN-13: 9780415815741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 218 str.

Timo Koivurova

Opis

Introduction to International Environmental Law provides a concise overview of international environmental law and the relations and agreements among nations to facilitate environmental protection. Beginning by exploring the history nature and sources of international environmental law, Professor Koivurova moves on to consider the key principles as well as examining the implementation and effectiveness of international environmental law in practice. It considers how international environmental law has developed away from other branches of international law which are heavily based on state sovereignty, in order to more effectively facilitate environmental protection and concludes by posing questions about the future of the field. Taking a concise, accessible approach throughout and employing case studies drawn from a global range of examples, this book is the ideal first point of entry to the context, principles and issues of this important subject.

Spis treści

1. Basic Issues In International Environmental Law  2. History Of International Environmental Law  3. Enacting And Developing International Environmental Law  4. Principles Of International Environmental Protection  5. Branches Of International Environmental Law  6. Legal Responsibility For Environmental Damage  7. The Future Of International Environmental Law

O autorze

Timo Koivurova is a Research Professor and the Director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre/University of Lapland. He is also a Docent of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Business Administration/University of Eastern Finland and at the Faculty of Law/University of Turku.