THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW. Ed by Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée and Ellen Hey Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.co.uk), 2007. xxvii + 1080 pp. ISBN 019926970X. £85.
| Pages | 156-158 |
| DOI | 10.3366/E1364980908220226 |
| Published date | 01 January 2008 |
| Date | 01 January 2008 |
| Author | James Harrison |
The environmental threats facing the world today are immense. Many are global in scale and it is only through concerted action that the international community can meet them. International law is a key tool in the fight against climate change, biodiversity loss and other major environmental problems. An increasing number of international treaties, declarations and other instruments address environmental issues. Indeed, according to the editors of the
Fifteen years after the Rio Conference, it is perhaps time to stand back and see how far we have come in our efforts to tackle the threats to the global environment. The aim of the
Much of the analysis concentrates on the plethora of treaties in this area. What is interesting about these treaties is not necessarily their subject matter, but their design. As one contributor notes, “environmental treaty systems are designed to facilitate and speed up the dynamic development of substantive regulations” (Gehring, 468). The
The so-called “constitutionalisation” of environmental regulation, through the creation of treaty regimes, is an important characteristic of international environmental law, as it allows flexible and timely responses to complex environmental...
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