International Environmental Law - Fairness, Effectiveness, and World Order

"This a comprehensive book on IEL that covers a wealth of topics from the protection of endangered species to the deep seabed and the pollution of outer space. In addition to its breadth, the book examines IEL from a justice and effectiveness perspective, a dynamic framework for understanding IEL from its beginnings till today"--

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: Hardback
• Release: 31.08.2025
• EAN: 9781009663755
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0966375-5
• No. of pages: 524
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Environmental, Environmental policy & protocols, Environment law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Environmental policy and protocols