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Tenth Annual Symposium on International Legal Practice: International Environmental Law: Global Trends and Policies

Author
Various Authors
Journal/Series
Hastings International and Comparative Law Review | Vol. 14, no 4; 749 - 1040; 292 p.
Date
1991
Source
IUCN (ID: ANA-044897)
Publisher | Place of publication
University of California Hastings College of the Law | San Francisco, CA, USA
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Country/Territory
European Union, United States of America, Brazil
Subject
Wild species & ecosystems, Environment gen., Air & atmosphere, Forestry
Keyword
Policy/planning Ozone layer Institution Waste disposal Transboundary effects Endangered species Management/conservation Forest management/forest conservation Wild fauna Comprehensive description External debt
Abstract

Contents: 1. Some thoughts on international environmental law from the perspective of a domestic practitioner; 2. Protection of the stratospheric ozone layer and the structure of international environmental lawmaking; 3. Taking responsibility for transboundary environmental effects; 4. The World Bank's environmental assessment policy; 5. Environmental protection in post-socialist Eastern Europe: the Polish example; 6. Disregarding environmental law: petroleum development in protected natural areas and indigenous homelands in the Ecuadorian Amazon; 7. The developing countries in the evolution of an international environmental law; 8. Siberia, environmentalism, and problems of environmentall protection; 9. The European Community's regulation and control of waste and the adoption of civil liability; 10.Debt-for-nature: the second generation; 11.Protection of endangered gorillas and chimpanzees in international trade: can CITES help?; 12.A comparison of forestry laws in the United States and Brazil as they promote deforestation in southeastern Alaska and the Amazon basin;

Other references

Treaty

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

Treaty | Multilateral | Montreal |

Keyword: Ozone layer

Source: IUCN (ID: TRE-000953)

Treaty

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

Treaty | Multilateral | Washington |

Keyword: Inventory, Wild flora, Authorization/permit, Endangered species, Certification, Biodiversity, International trade, Protected plant species, Protected animal species, Wild fauna, Wildlife products, Management/conservation, Offences/penalties, International agreement-text, Trade in species

Source: IUCN (ID: TRE-000483)

Treaty

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

Treaty | Multilateral | Vienna |

Source: IUCN (ID: TRE-000829)