Environmental Damage in International and Comparative Law - Problems of Definition and Valuation

Zusatztext "This book by Boyle is the most serious recent publication on this topic [on human rights]...the book under review is the most versatile study on the problem of the link of human rights and environmental protection. The book raises all the relevant issues in a comprehensive and stimulating manner. It gives an overview of different arguments. It strikes a good balance between theory and practice...a must for all international lawyers." Informationen zum Autor Alan Boyle has taught and practised International Law and International Environmental Law for over twenty years. Educated at Oxford, he taught at Queen Mary College, London, and is now Professor of Public International Law at Edinburgh University.Mr Michael Bowman is a lecturer in law at Nottingham University Klappentext This study considers the problems of defining and valuing "environmental damage" from the perspective of international and comparative law. The need for a broad and systematic evaluation of this issue is illustrated by the number of topics presently on the international law-making agenda to which it is relevant, including the UN Compensation Commission's decisions on compensation for environmental losses suffered by Kuwait in the Gulf War, nuclear and oil pollution liability regimes, the development of an environmental liability protocol to the Antarctic Treaty and other agreements on bio-safety and genetically modified organisms. It is thus an important element in contemporary efforts to strengthen legal remedies for environmental harm which does not necessarily come within traditional categories of legally protected personal or property rights. Zusammenfassung This study considers the problems of defining and valuing "environmental damage" from the perspective of international and comparative law. The need for a broad and systematic evaluation of this issue is illustrated by the number of topics presently on the international law-making agenda to which it is relevant, including the UN Compensation Commission's decisions on compensation for environmental losses suffered by Kuwait in the Gulf War, nuclear and oil pollution liability regimes, the development of an environmental liability protocol to the Antarctic Treaty and other agreements on bio-safety and genetically modified organisms. It is thus an important element in contemporary efforts to strengthen legal remedies for environmental harm which does not necessarily come within traditional categories of legally protected personal or property rights. The contributors include experts in national and international law, civil and common law, as well as in the laws of developed and developing states, an economist and a member of the UN Compensation Commission. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Michael Bowman: The Definition and Valuation of Environmental Harm 2: Alan Boyle: Reparation for Environmental Damage in International Law: Some Preliminary Problems 3: Nick Hanley: The Economic Value of Environmental Damage 4: Michael Bowman: " Intrinsic Value" and Biological Diversity 5: Ruth Mackenzie: Environmental Damage and Living Modified Organisims 6: Gunther Handl: Indigenous Peoples' Lifestyle as an Environmental Valuation Problem 7: Mojtaba Kazazi: Environmental Damage in the Practice of the UN Compensation Commission 8: John Woodliffe: Environmental Damage and Environmental Impact Assessment 9: Louise De La Fayette: The Concept of Environmental Damage in International Liability Regimes 10: David Ong: The Relationship Between Environmental Damage and Pollution: Marine Oil Pollution Laws in Malasia and Singapore 11: Tom Schoenbaum: Environmental Damages in Common Law 12: Peter Wetterstein: Environmental Damage in the Legal Systems of the Nordic Countries and Germany 13: Malgosia Fitzmaurice: Civil Law Approaches to Environmental Damage: Poland 14: Donald Reid: Definition and Valuation of Envir...

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• Authors: Michael (Lecturer in Law Bowman, Michael Boyle Bowman, Alan Boyle
• Assisted by: Michael Bowman (Editor), Alan Boyle (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2002
• EAN: 9780199255733
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925573-3
• No. of pages: 380
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries