Books in the Routledge Research in International Environmental Law series

This book takes a comparative approach to explore the legal framework of environmental mediation with a focus on the judicial, administrative and private procedures and the criteria for accrediting mediators in a range of jurisdictions across the world.

This is one of the first books to address research cooperation and facilitated access for non-commercial biodiversity research. It uniquely offers concrete and practicable solutions based on experiences of researchers and administrative officials with Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS), and on the interpretation of the Nagoya Protocol on how free and lively taxonomic research can be ensured while at the same time observing obligations of obtaining prior informed consent and sharing of benefits.With foreword from Executive Secretary CBD, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias.

This book provides a background of the law governing natural resources and explores the relationship with key concepts such as sustainable development, sovereign rights, and state responsibility principles within international law.

This book represents a synthesis of the most important contributions to the annual course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements, jointly run by the University of Eastern Finland and United Nations Environment Programme.

Given the magnitude of the risks associated with commercial activities in the Arctic arising as a result of the milder climate, new business opportunities raise important questions of responsibility and liability. This book analyses the issues of responsibility and liability connected with the exploitation of natural resources, marine transport and other activities in the Arctic. Applying a combined private and public law perspective on these issues, it considers both the business and societal interests related to Arctic development using Greenland as an example. The book focuses on problems that are specific to Greenland and wider issues that affect all Arctic states.

This is one of the first books to address research cooperation and facilitated access for non-commercial biodiversity research. It uniquely offers concrete and practicable solutions based on experiences of researchers and administrative officials with Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS), and on the interpretation of the Nagoya Protocol on how free and lively taxonomic research can be ensured while at the same time observing obligations of obtaining prior informed consent and sharing of benefits.With foreword from Executive Secretary CBD, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral) - University of Strathclyde, 2014.

This book considers the role of cultural legitimacy in the choice and effectiveness of international legal and policy interventions aimed at tackling the impact of climate change through adaptation and mitigation. The book showcases innovative ideas from across the disciplines and investigates the link between the efficacy of international legal and policy mechanisms on climate change and cultural legitimacy. Chapters with a theoretical basis are included as well as specific case-studies from around the globe.

Managing genetic resources and traditional knowledge is critical to one of the most significant issues facing the global environment ¿ maintenance of biodiversity. Written by a team of expert academics and practitioners in the field, this innovative book makes a timely and valuable contribution to academic and policy debates in International Environmental Law, International Biodiversity Law, Intellectual Property, Climate Law and the Law of Indigenous Populations. Taking an inductive approach, it starts from existing pools and discusses how they could be further developed to cope with the objectives of the Nagoya Protocol.

Analyses the environmental treaty regimes which are designed to conserve coral reef ecosystems. This book looks at the subject from a number of coral reef perspectives such as coverage of these ecosystems, internal promotion of conservation, national implementation, and discusses the wider implications for international environmental law.

This book sheds light on the legal relationship between climate change and human rights, based on tripartite human rights categories. Contributors to the book explore the relationship between climate change and first, second and third generation human rights, drawing on the obligations to respect, protect, and fulfil human rights.

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was adopted in 2010 and provides international rules and procedures in the field of liability for damage to biological diversity. This book examines the legal significance of key provisions of the Supplementary Protocol, and focuses on the use of an administrative approach to liability for biodiversity damage. With negotiators and advisers from some of the key negotiating parties among the contributors, the book provides valuable insights into the multilateral environmental treaty-making process.