The future of environmental law: international and European perspectives

Abstract:

The materials collected in this Working Paper are the result of intensive and interactive discussions that took place in the Working Group on Environmental Law of the European University Institute during the 2004-2005 academic year. The contributions consider recent developments in environmental law and offer an international or European perspective on the future in the areas of: sustainable development, the reform of the United Nations, climate change, biodiversity and biotechnology, environmental justice and environmental liability.

Further information:

Working Group on Environmental Law: Collected Report 2004-2005

Table of Contents:

• Sustainable Development
  • Sustainable Development: Paradigm Shift or just Another Field of Law? | Hanne Birgitte Jensen
  • Sustainable Development and Small Island Developing States: the Mauritius International Meeting | Elisa Morgera
• UN Reforms
  • The Reform of Environmental Governance in the United Nations: the French Proposal | Federico Lenzerini
  • The 2005 World Summit: UN Reforms and the Protection of the Environment | Elisa Morgera
• Climate change
  • How to Prevent Babies from Being Thrown Away with the Bathwater: Perspectives on the International Climate Regime from Buenos Aires to the Future | Kati Kulovesi
  • The Climate Change Regime: Recent Developments at the International, EU and Italian Level | Massimiliano Montini
• Biodiversity and Biotechnology and the Governance of Risk
  • Access and Benefitsharing in Natural Plant and Human Genetic Resources for the Production of Medicines | Aphrodite Smagadi & Helène Boussard
  • Biodiversity and Biotechnology:Consolidation and Strains in the Emerging International Legal Regimes” | Riccardo Pavoni
  • Science Goes to Court: Some Considerations on the Precautionary Principle in the Community Jurisprudence | Patricia Quillaq & Patrycja Dabrowska
• The Aarhus Convention as an Instrument of Environmental Justice
  • Is Legal Symbiosis Possible? The Coming Synergy between the Aarhus Convention and the European Court of Human Rights | Patricia Quillacq
  • Good Governance in the Regulation of Biotechnology: the Inputs of the Aarhus Convention | Sofia de Abreu Ferreira
• Environmental Liability
  • The Environmental Liability Directive | Emanuela Orlando

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