Defending the Environment: Civil Society Strategies to Enforce International Environmental Law

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Island Press, 2006. gada 28. febr. - 384 lappuses

Defending the Environment provides the means for nongovernmental organizations, community groups, and individuals to bring environmental and public health problems to the attention of international courts, tribunals, and commissions, or to their domestic counterparts. It suggests specific strategies and provides detailed information for taking action. This revised and updated edition also contains new case studies of the application of those strategies that has occurred in recent years.

Each chapter provides a description of the institutional mechanisms that can potentially receive, review, and remedy the alleged violation, along with a set of guidelines that explain how the reader can employ a particular strategy, and an example that indicates the effectiveness of a given strategy. In addition, the book offers an appendix that lists individuals and organizations who can assist with the various strategies described.

Defending the Environment represents the first concise, comprehensive guide to international environmental law and institutions that offers readers hands-on strategies for addressing environmental and public health problems.

 

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Saturs

Introduction
1
Exercising Environmental Human Rights and Remedies in the United Nations and Regional Systems
9
Advocating for International Finance and Trade Institutions to Adhere to Environmental and Public Health Standards
131
Preventing New International Trade and Investment Dispute Resolution Mechanisme From Undermining Current Environmental and Public Health R...
167
Encouraging Secretariats of Multilateral Environmental and Public Health Agreements to Enforce Current International Environmental Standards
189
Enforcing International Environmental Law in Tribunals of General Jurisdiction
221
Enforcing Environmental Law Through Domestic Law Mechanisms
249
Conclusion
289
List of Practitioner Experts
297
Bibliography
313
Index
341
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Par autoru (2006)

Linda Malone is currently Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law at the College of William & Mary. She is the author of numerous books including several books on international law, human rights, and environmental law. She has previously taught at Duke University, University of Virginia, and Washington and Lee law schools among others. She has served on numerous international committees.

Scott Pasternack is Assistant Corporation Counsel for the city of New York. He was previously Klipstein Fellow in the International Law program at Earthjustice.

Bibliogrāfiskā informācija

NosaukumsDefending the Environment: Civil Society Strategies to Enforce International Environmental Law
AutoriLinda Malone, Scott Pasternack
Izdevums:jauns izdevums, pārstrādāts
IzdevējsIsland Press, 2006
ISBN1597265942, 9781597265942
Apjoms384 lappuses
  
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