Umfang:
1 online resource (337 pages)
ISBN:
9781487579883
Serie:
Heritage
Inhalt:
The book combines a complete and lucid exposition of the current state of environmental law and organization with a cogent argument for the direction they must take in the immediate future.
Inhalt:
Cover -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PART ONE Introduction -- 1 Ecology and political ecology -- 2 Environmental public order -- Actors -- Interests -- The logic of interest achievement -- Taking account of environmental costs and benefits -- Trends in environmental public order and recommendations for the future -- Obiter dictum on minimum and optimum order -- PART TWO Trends in development of environmental public order -- 3 Concepts of international environmental law -- Determination of competence over resources -- Regulation of use of resources -- Access of people to resources -- 4 Processes of international environmental organization -- Gathering, processing, and disseminating environmental information -- Promotion of environmentally sound thinking and practices -- International environmental law-making -- Invocation of international machinery for environmental causes -- Application of policies in concrete circumstances -- Termination of ecologically unsound practices and amelioration of the consequences and costs of change -- Appraisal of the ongoing environmental decision-making system -- International environmental funding and some related matters -- PART THREE Analysis of trends in environmental order and recommendation of future policies -- 5 Towards an international ecological law and organization -- 'Custodianship' and 'delegation of powers' as the conceptual framework -- International environmental law to date -- Evolution of international environmental organization -- Review of the public order theory and concepts -- A final word to political philosophers -- PART FOUR Problem studies in international environmental law and organization -- 6 State responsibility for environmental protection and preservation -- Background of state environmental responsibility -- Prevention of environmental deprivations.
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Weitere Ausg.:
9781487580957
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781487580957
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5747911
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