International law and sustainable development : Past achievements and future challenges
- Oxford Oxford University Press 1999
- 377p xxviii
Contents: 1. Introduction / Alan Boyle and David Freestone; 2. Sustainable development and unsustainable arguments / Vaughan Lowe; 3. Sustainable development: treaty, custom, and the cross-fertilization of international law / Philippe Sands; 4. Codification of international environmental law and the International Law Commission: injurious consequences revisited / Alan Boyle; 5. Natural resources in the case law of the International Court / Rosalyn Higgins; 6. The development of the legal regime of high seas fisheries / Dolliver Nelson; 7. International fisheries law since Rio: the continued rise of the precautionary principle / David Freestone; 8. Towards long-term sustainable use: some recent developments in the legal regime of fisheries / William Edeson; 9. Protection of ecosystems under international law: lessons from Antarctica / Catherine Redgwell; 10. Sustaining small cetaceans: a preliminary evaluation of the Ascobans and Accobams Agreements / Robin Churchill; 11. The settlement of disputes according to the Straddling Stocks Agreement of 1995 / Tullio Treves; 12. The Law of the Sea Convention and Agenda 21: marine environmental implications / Alexander Yankov; 13. The international legal regime for the protection and preservation of the marine environment from land-based sources of pollution / Thomas A. Mensah; 14. Port states and environmental protection / David Anderson; 15. Liability for damage to the marine environment / Magnus Goransson; 16. The challenge of implementation: some concluding notes / David Freestone.
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1. International Law - Legislations - Sustainable Development2. International Environmental Law