Environmental Protection and International Law
Published on 1. January 2001
256 pages
978-90-411-7724-7 (ISBN)
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This further addition to the International Environmental Law and Policy Series examines to what extent international law meets the needs of international action required in the field of environmental protection. Some of the world's leading practitioners and academics contribute significantly in identifying problems which have so far been inadequately dealt with, assessing the protection afforded by present general international law regarding Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Hazardous Waste, and Climate Change and the Ozone Layer, and in addressing the causes in regulatory deficiencies. There is a critical appraisal of the adequacy and efficiency of existing law and present procedures. The book presents the revised and edited papers presented at the Symposium held in Vienna in October 1990, under the auspices of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs.
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Editorial Board
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1 Environmental Issues Requiring International Action
- INTRODUCTION
- THE MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND THEIR INTERACTION
- THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS: FROM THE IDENTIFICATION OF A THREAT TO THE ENVIRONMENT TO EFFECTIVE RESPONSE STRATEGIES
- THE IDENTIFICATION AND FIRST OBSERVATIONAL INDICATIONS
- ACHIEVING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS AND MAJOR POLITICAL ACCEPTANCE
- GLOBAL CLIMATIC CHANGE
- INTRODUCTION
- THE GREENHOUSE GASES AND THEIR SOURCES
- THE EXPECTED CLIMATIC CHANGE
- CONSEQUENCES OF A CLIMATIC CHANGE
- RESPONSE STRATEGIES
- THE DEPLETION OF STRATOSPHERIC OZONE
- INTRODUCTION
- FORMATION AND DESTRUCTION OF OZONE IN THE STRATOSPHERE
- IMPACTS ON ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION AND ASSOCIATED CONSEQUENCES FOR HUMAN HEALTH
- INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT ON THE CFC PHASEOUT
- OZONE IN THE TROPOSPHERE
- THE ACIDIFICATION OF TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
- INTRODUCTION
- RECOGNITION OF THE PROBLEM
- THE CHEMICALS CAUSING THE PROBLEM
- IMPACTS OF THE ACIDIFYING POLLUTANTS
- CRITICAL LOAD OF POLLUTION
- INTERNATIONAL ACTION
- DEFORESTATION AND DEGRADATION OF LAND
- INTRODUCTION
- THE MAGNITUDE OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION
- DEFORESTATION CONTRIBUTES TO CLIMATIC CHANGE
- DO WE KNOW THE CAUSES OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION?
- THE NEED FOR A GLOBAL CONVENTION ON FORESTS
- LAND DEGRADATION AND ITS IMPACT ON FOOD PRODUCTION
- POLLUTION AND TOXIFICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- AN EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
- CHEMICAL TIME BOMBS
- LINKAGES BETWEEN THE VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND OTHER GLOBAL ISSUES
- IS OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES SUFFICIENT FOR TAKING RESPONSE MEASURES?
- Chapter 2 Environmental Security and Global Change: The Challenge to International Law
- I. INTRODUCTION
- II. INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT: THE EVOLVING PROCESS
- A. LEGAL INSTRUMENTS AND LAW-MAKING TECHNIQUES
- B. IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
- III. THE CHANGING NATURE AND SCOPE OF STATES' ENTITLEMENT TO THE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES
- A. THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
- B. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT/INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY
- C. THE NORTH-SOUTH ISSUE
- D. Redefining Sovereignty
- IV. CONCLUSIONS
- Chapter 3 Protection of the Environment by International Law: Air Pollution
- AIR POLLUTION AS AN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM
- GENERAL/CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW
- TREATY LAW
- THE GENEVA CONVENTION
- THE PROTOCOLS ON SO2 AND NOx
- CRITICISMS
- THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION- PROTOCOLS-APPROACH
- PERCENTAGE REDUCTION VERSUS CRITICAL LOADS
- THE DILEMMA OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW-MAKING
- Introduction
- Identifying the Country of Origin of LRTAP
- The Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Protocol
- The Value of the LRTAP Convention System
- Percentage Reductions Versus Emission Freezes
- Critical Loads
- The Constellation of Interests of States
- Framework Conventions and the Time Factor
- The Inevitability of Compromise
- The Dilemma of International Environmental Lawmaking
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 International and European Community Law Aspects of Pollution of International Watercourses
- INTRODUCTION
- INTERNATIONAL LAW
- SUBSTANTIVE PRINCIPLES OR RULES
- PRINCIPLES OR RULES OF CO-OPERATION
- EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW
- Annex
- Principles
- Domestic and Transboundary Context
- Economy and Law
- Chapter 5 The International Waste Regime
- REGIME
- FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE EMERGENCE OF AN INTERNATIONAL WASTE REGIME
- THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
- ELEMENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WASTE REGIME
- THE BASEL CONVENTION
- THE LONDON DUMPING CONVENTION
- OTHER INSTRUMENTS
- CONCLUSIONS
- Chapter 6 Ozone Layer and Climate Change
- INTRODUCTION
- OZONE LAYER
- SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
- EARLY LEGISLATIVE STEPS
- VIENNA CONVENTION
- MONTREAL PROTOCOL
- HELSINKI MEETING OF THE PARTIES
- LONDON AMENDMENT AND ADJUSTMENTS
- CONTROL MEASURES
- FINANCIAL MECHANISM
- GLOBAL WARMING
- SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
- IPCC AND SWCC
- PATTERNS AND TRENDS
- ESTABLISHMENT OF A LEGISLATIVE PATTERN
- CHARACTERISTICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS
- Chapter 7 State Responsibility and Liability
- THE PRESENT STATE OF THE LAW
- THE ILC CODIFICATION EXERCISE
- SURVEY OF FACTUAL SITUATIONS
- EFFECT
- ACTIVITY
- SPACE
- SOURCES AND VICTIMS
- AVAILABLE CONCEPTS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
- STATE RESPONSIBILITY
- STATE LIABILITY
- CIVIL LIABILITY
- A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF REDRESS
- RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER ACTION
- Chapter 8 International co-operation for the Protection of the Environment: The Procedural Dimension
- INTRODUCTION
- PRIOR INFORMATION RELEVANT TO ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
- PROCEDURES OF CONSULTATION
- SHARED NATURAL RESOURCES
- INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL COMMONS
- NUCLEAR DAMAGE
- JOINT IMPLEMENTATION, FACT-FINDING, AND MONITORING
- DEFICIENCIES AND LIMITS OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM
- Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions
- Index
- Back Cover
