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Introduction to International Environmental Law

Introduction to International Environmental Law

Name: Introduction to International Environmental Law
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9780415815741
Price: 630.37 HKD
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Author: Timo Koivurova
ISBN: 9780415815741

By Timo Koivurova

Routledge November 2013

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780415815741
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: November 2013
Format: Paperback , 218 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Introduction to International Environmental Law provides a concise overview of international environmental law and the relations and agreements among nations to facilitate environmental protection. Beginning by exploring the history nature and sources of international environmental law, Professor Koivurova moves on to consider the key principles as well as examining the implementation and effectiveness of international environmental law in practice. It considers how international environmental law has developed away from other branches of international law which are heavily based on state sovereignty, in order to more effectively facilitate environmental protection and concludes by posing questions about the future of the field.

Taking a concise, accessible approach throughout and employing case studies drawn from a global range of examples, this book is the ideal first point of entry to the context, principles and issues of this important subject.

1. Basic questions in international environmental law 2. The history of IEL 3. Enactment and development of IEL 4. Principles of international environmental law 5. Sub-Disciplines of IEL 6. Legal responsibility from environmental damage 7. The future of IEL

About the Author

Timo Koivurova is a Research Professor and the Director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre/University of Lapland. He is also a Docent of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Business Administration/University of Eastern Finland and at the Faculty of Law/University of Turku.

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