Environmental protection has been a matter of public awareness for many years. However, improvement of environmental quality is not always considered in terms of economic advantage. Rigorous evaluation of the relationship between economy and environment suggests a positive feedback between social benefits (public health, education, technology) and economic development. Definition of environmental quality includes determination of origins, distributions and dispersion mechanisms of xenobiotic substances. Risk assessment incorporating measures for preventive/corrective policy may then follow....

The rapid growth of international trade has brought about a need for unification of law governing international commerce and especially the international sale of goods since the sales contract constitutes the most common and the most important business transaction. This text examines the interaction between conflict of law rules and substantive rules in conventions designed to unify the law in this area. It also attempts to establish which method of unification of substantive law will restrict or even possibly exclude altogether the application of traditional conflictual mechanisms. This book...