International Environmental Law - Fairness, Effectiveness, and World Order

Much of the writing in contemporary international environmental law is passionately and uncritically advocative. Although Dr. Louka's book is plainly animated by a deep concern for the preservation of the environment of the planet and the realization that in the context of a global civilization of science and technology, it can be protected only by effective international efforts, the stance adopted is not uncritical and Dr. Louka never surrenders the scholarly role...Dr. Louka's book will be important for the practitioner in the vineyard of international environmental law no less than for the political leaders who are charged with its development. Dr. Louka has produced a remarkable book that will be of great value to the profession.

List of contents

1. Introduction to international environmental law; 2. International environmental governance; 3. Functions and foundations of international environmental law; 4. Climate and the atmosphere; 5. Hazardous and radioactive substances and wastes; 6. Seas and oceans; 7. Biodiversity and genetic resources; 8. Biodiversity and human rights; 9. Fisheries, seabed minerals and marine genetic resources; 10. Freshwater resources; 11. Liability and responsibility; 12. Trade and environment; 13. Investment and environment; 14. Outer space.

About the author

Elli Louka is the founder of Law-in-Action based in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Louka has been a Marie Curie Fellow, a Ford Foundation Fellow and a Senior Fellow at the Orville Schell Center at Yale Law School. Other publications include: The Global Economic Order: The International Law and Politics of the Financial and Monetary System (2020); Nuclear Weapons, Justice and the Law (2011); Water Law and Policy: Governance without Frontiers (2008).

Product details

• Authors: Elli Louka, Elli (Law in Action) Louka
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2025
• EAN: 9781009663762
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0966376-2
• No. of pages: 524
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, LAW / Environmental, Environmental law, Environmental policy & protocols, Environment law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Environmental policy and protocols