Enforcement of International Environmental Law

Challenges and Responses at the International Level
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-47910-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 100 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 268 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in International Environmental Law

The international community has generated several hundred multilateral environmental agreements, yet it has been far less successful in developing means to ensure that contracting parties honour them in practice. The subject of law enforcement has traditionally attracted relatively little attention amongst international policy-makers at the formation stage of a multilateral environmental accord. Commonly, the question of how to secure collective adherence to environmental treaty regimes might well only be considered in depth at a much later stage of an environmental agreement’s evolution, if at all. At the same time, the significance of the issue of enforcement has gradually received more considered attention by states and international institutions. Providing an analysis of the nature, extent and current state of the international legal framework concerned with enhancing effective implementation of international environmental law, this book considers the scope and impact of international rules of law whose remit is to require or promote compliance by states with their international environmental legal obligations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hedemann-Robinson, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Table of cases

Table of treaties and environmental legislation

Table of abbreviations

PART I

Challenges of enforcing International Environmental Law

1 Introduction

2 Implementation shortcomings and international reaction

3 Reflections on terminology and theoretical perspectives concerning enforcement of International Environmental Law

PART II

The international legal framework relating to the enforcement of International Environmental Law

4 Traditional bilateral dispute resolution principles and mechanisms

5 The role of collective compliance mechanisms in International Environmental Law

6 The European Union’s special enforcement mechanisms

PART III

Sanctions

7 Sanctions for non-compliance in International Environmental Law

PART IV

Reflections on international enforcement of International Environmental Law

8 Concluding remarks

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Martin Hedemann-Robinson is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, UK, and a former legal administrator of the European Commission.