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Protecting our environment. German perspectives on a global challenge

Author
Dolzer R., Thesing J. (eds)
Date
2000
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-065520)
Publisher | Place of publication
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung e.V. | St. Augustin, Germany
ISBN
3-933714-37-0
Pages
580 p.
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Comprehensive description
Abstract

Contents: I. Thematic issues of international environmental policy 1. Climate protection in international environmental law 2. The end of biodiversity. The extinction and extermination of animal species 3. International forest protection 4. International marine environmental protection: The legal framework 5. Protecting oceans and seas 6. From soil and water conservation to sustainable land management II. Structural themes of international environmental policyy 7. International environmental institutions: An overview 8. Formulating, funding and implementing the concept of worldwide environmental protection 9. Technological cooperation to promote sustainable development: New tendencies in environmental-law agreements 10. Legal principles in international environmental relations 11. The environment in international trade and investment law 12. Structural obstacles confronting the formulation and implementation of an effective international environmental policy III. Environmental protection in domestic law: A German perspective 13. Environmental protection in constitutional law on the New Art. 20a of the Basic Law 14. Defining environmental goals: Reasons, limits, and implementation instruments 15. Prinicples of environmental protection 16. The ambivalence of the basic right of ownership: Environmental protection in the theoretical coordinate system of civil rights 17. Air quality protection in the Law of the Federal Republic of Germany 18. Nature, landscape, and soil protection 19. Water protection 20. Refuse management: The legal view 21. The law on chemicals