Multilateral Environmental Agreements - Legal Status of the Secretariats

Informationen zum Autor Professor Bharat H. Desai holds the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Chair in International Environmental Law and is Professor of International Law as well as Chairman of the Centre for International Legal Studies at the School of International Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. As a Humboldt Fellow, he worked at the University of Bonn on the treatise Institutionalizing International Environmental Law. He is the author of Creeping Institutionalization: Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Human Security and an associate editor of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law, as well as Vice-Chairman of the Foundation for Development of International Law in Asia. Klappentext This study examines the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). Zusammenfassung This study examines the genesis! development! and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)! their ad hoc treaty-based status and the issue of the legal personality of their secretariats. It offers an account of the phenomenon in which an international institution provides a servicing base for an MEA that triggers a chain of legal implications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Institutionalizing cooperation; 2. Multilateral environmental regulation; 3. Nature and character of environmental agreements; 4. Host institution arrangements; 5. Legal status; 6. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Bharat H. Desai, Bharat H. (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Desai, BharatH Desai, Desai Bharat H.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2010
• EAN: 9780521883283
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88328-3
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Environmental, Environment law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Treaties & Other Sources Of International Law, Public international law: treaties and other sources