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Fifty Years of International Environmental Law: Developments since the 1972 Stockholm Conference

Author: Jonas Ebbesson; David Langlet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009445771
Published In: June 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book explores the seminal importance of the first UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972 – the Stockholm Conference – for the development of international environmental law. By bringing together world leading experts from academia and legal practice, the book charts the development of international environmental law in the 50 years since 1972 in the areas of nature and biodiversity, chemicals and waste, oceans and water, and atmosphere and climate, and with respect to structures and institutions, consumption and production, and human rights and participatory rights in environmental matters. It analyses how the ideas and concepts of the Stockholm Conference have influenced this development and explores the novel ideas that have emerged since then. It describes the approaches of the developed and developing countries in this process and the relationship between international environmental law and other areas of law, such as the law of the sea and international economic law.

Introduction:

50.

years of shaping international environmental law

Jonas Ebbesson and David Langlet

Part I. Concepts, Structures, and Institutions:

1. Stockholm 1972 and the birth of international sustainable development law

Nico Schrijver

2. The missed link between international economic law and social and environmental issues

Ellen Hey

3. On the international environmental governance architecture: looking back to look ahead for our common future

Bharat H. Desai

Part II. Human Rights, Participatory Rights, and the Rule of Law:

4. Litigating human rights and the environment in international tribunals 1972–2022: how far have we progressed

Dinah Shelton

5. Environmental rule of law: from Stockholm 1972 to 2022 and beyond

Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Alvin Gachie, Leonie Geene, Macharia Kaguru and Jan Maina

6. The development of environmental access rights and protection of environmental defenders

Ben Boer and Rowena Cantley-Smith

Part III. Consumption, Production, Chemicals, and Waste:

7. Unrealised ambition or unattainable goal? Sustainable consumption and production in international law

Eva R. van der Marel and Catherine Redgwell

8. International regulation and the management of mining since the 1972 Stockholm conference: from local to global concerns

Timo Koivurova

9. Chemicals and wastes in international environmental policy and law: from trail smelter to a circular economy

Katharina Kummer Peiry

10. The unfinished agenda of Stockholm 1972: a rights-based approach to chemicals and wastes

Marcos A. Orellana

11. The dynamics of international and European Union law on waste and chemicals: past, present, and future

Carl Dalhammar

Part IV. The Atmosphere:

12. Implementing principle 21 of the Stockholm declaration: regional efforts to regulate transboundary air pollution

Phoebe Okowa and Sean O'Reilly

13. Climate protection 50 years after Stockholm: international law at the precipice

Jutta Brunnée

14. A southern state of mind: from being 'mindful of … effects on climate' to climate litigation in the global South

Jacqueline Peel

15. Trade and atmospheric protection at Stockholm+50: plus ça change?

Harro van Asselt

Part V. Waters:

16. The Stockholm declaration at sea: influences on the content and context of the law of the sea

Richard Barnes

17. Linking international regimes on oceans and fresh water since the 1972 Stockholm conference: the case of preventing land-based marine plastic pollution via international watercourses

Yoshifumi Tanaka

Part VI. Nature and Biodiversity:

18. The progressive development of international biodiversity law from the 1972 Stockholm conference to the synergistic protection of biodiversity and human rights, including at the ocean-climate nexus

Elisa Morgera

19. Aspirations of developing countries in biodiversity treaty-making processes: dreams deferred?

Dire D. Tladi

20. The influence of the Stockholm conference on the development of nature protection law at an international level and in Europe

Nicolas de Sadeleer

21. Fifty years of international law-making on the environment: women shaping legal principles and solidarity

Claudia Ituarte-Lima

Annex 1. Declaration of the United Nations conference on the human environment, 1972

Annex 2. Stockholm+50: A healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity, summary points of leadership dialogues and outcome