Pressestimmen
This is an excellent introductory text aimed at students and practitioners interested in international environmental law. It seeks to familiarise the reader with the system of environmental law as a whole and the interaction between different environmental regimes in IEL and governance. The authors provide a wide-ranging and structured discussion of theoretical, substantive and procedural aspects of IEL while also demonstrating how the different areas of IEL form a system of international governance that is accessible for students. It is immediately engaging, clearly written and very accessible and because of this, I was able to pick it up and refer to it immediately in my own work. This is important for an introductory textbook and as such, I think it would be very useful to undergraduates and those who may be taking shorter courses on this subject. This book achieves its objectives of making the reader familiar with the system of IEL as a whole. It not only makes readers aware of the current theory and practice in this field but considers options for improved coordination and integration of MEAs. On the whole this is a very well thought through contribution to the area of IEL.Kate WilkinsonEnvironmental LiabilityVolume 5, 2011Professors and decision-makers in search of a concise restatement of [international environmental law], containing the essentials necessary to quickly grasp an intelligent overview, need look no further!American Society of International Law NewsletterIssue #43: January 2012...a good solid introduction to environmental law [that] touches ... on important issues such as the need to integrate the working of Multilateral Environment Agreements and for greater coordination of international governance.Begonia FilgueiraEnvironmental Regulation and Information Centre NewsletterOctober 2011
Kurzbeschreibung
International Environmental Law is a new textbook written for students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject. The overall aim of the book is to provide a fresh understanding of international environmental law as a whole, seen in the light of climate change, biodiversity loss, and the other serious environmental challenges facing the world. The book has also been kept deliberately manageable in size by careful selection of topics and by adopting a cross-cutting synthesis of regulatory interaction in the field. This enables the reader to place international environmental law in the broader context of public international law in general, revealing at the same time that international environmental law is experimental ground for developing new legal approaches towards global governance. To this end, the authors have combined theory and practice.Apart from discussing concepts, rule-making and compliance, the book looks at options for improved coordination, harmonisation and even integration of existing multilateral environmental agreements, analysing how conflicts between various environmental regimes can be avoided or, at least, adequately managed. The authors argue that an appropriate management of international environmental relations must address the North-South divide, which continues to be a major obstacle to global environmental cooperation. Furthermore, the authors emphasise the growing human rights dimension of international environmental law.This book is an ideal 'door opener' for the further study of international environmental law. Focusing on 'international environmental governance' in a comprehensive way, it serves to explain that each institution, each actor, and each instrument is part of a multi-dimensional process in international environmental law and relations.
