International Environmental Law and Policy

by Weiss, Edith Brown

• ISBN13: 9780735526389
• ISBN10: 0735526389
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-22
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law and Business

Summary

Revised and updated for its Second Edition, INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY uses cases, materials, problems, and questions to introduce important issues to students with little or no background in either international law or environmental law.This dynamic casebook offers a coherent presentation of a complicated area:the strong author team includes a diverse mix of scholars who are all active in the fieldoffers an introduction to international law and institutions as a foundation for the study of global norms applicable to environmental problemspresents International Environmental Law in the 21st century, covering traditional issues such as transfrontier pollution and shared resource allocation and examining newer and emerging issues such as climate change, biological diversity and human rights implicationstakes an interdisciplinary approach in an analytical framework that can be applied to any international environmental legal problemleads students from fundamental issues to sophisticated applications in four main parts: The Nature of International Environmental Issues, Pollution Control, Natural Resource Management, and Trade and Financethe thorough Teacher's Manual contains answers to all the exercises, problems, and questions in the book, as well as sample syllabi and a transition guideThe authors use a skillful blend of material to capture and hold student interest:detailed case studies that explore international environmental normsconvenient appendices on Researching International Environmental law, International Organizations, and General Steps in Formulating Multilateral Agreementsdetailed discussions of the relationship between international and domestic implementation of lawin-depth coverage of the liability, accountability, and valuation of natural resource damagesChanges for the Second Edition update the material and facilitate student understanding:new developments in international environmental law, including compliance with agreements, international health problems, biotechnology, developments in WTO and NAFTA, sustainable economic development, and accountability of international institutionsthe book is redesigned and condensed to make the materials readily accessible to a broad variety of students, both in the United States and abroadthe rewritten introductory chapter now begins with a short history of international environmental law, the nature of international environmental problems, and political and economic contextsseveral new case studies demonstrate the major problems involved in international environmental law and highlight the many interests surrounding treaty negotiationsreadings throughout the book are revised and condensed, with editors' notes relating them to the case studiescases and materials are judiciously edited to conserve length while maintaining readability