Proceedings of the Workshop on Strengthening Environmental Legislation in the Pacific Region Author Boer B. (ed) Date 1993 Source IUCN (ID: MON-050922) Publisher | Place of publication SPREP | Apia, Western Samoa ISBN 982-04-0067-8 Pages 196 p. Document type Miscellaneous Conference name | place | date Workshop on strengthening environmental legislation in the Pacific Region | Apia | 19921100 Language English Country/Territory Cook Islands (New Zealand), Fiji, Micronesia, Fed. States, Guam (USA), Kiribati, Niue (New Zealand), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tokelau (New Zealand), Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Samoa Subject Environment gen., Air & atmosphere, Wild species & ecosystems Keyword Comprehensive description Basin South Pacific Abstract Contents: 1. Objectives of the Workshop; 2. Overview of South Pacific Regional Environment programme and the regional environment technical assistance and national environment management strategy projects; 3. Overview of environmental law and policy at global and regional levels; 4. Environmental concerns of the South Pacific; 5. Environment and health: toward a strategic alliance; 6. International environmental law with particular reference to the Pacific region; 7. The role of the UNEP in the development and implementation of environmental law with special reference to the South Pacific region; 8. Introduction to the basic concepts of environmental law;; 9. Regulation and environmental decision-making; 10.The role of custom in environmental management and law in the Pacific; 11.Country presentations on customary practices and law; 12.Institutional structures and requirements for the implementation of multilateral environmental conventionss 13.The implementation of environment conventions in the South Pacific; 14.Implementation of the Climate Change Convention in the Pacific; 15.Institutional strengthening in the environmental area in Pacific countries; 16.Drafting a modern Environment Act; 17.The need for institutional and legal change: A South-Pacific non-government organization; 18.Climate change and loss of biodiversity: do the new conventions help? 19.The international law concerning nuclear testing and the disposal of nuclear waste; 20.Global environment facility; 21.Summing up of Workshop; 22.Country reports