Research Handbook on International Environmental Law

Edited by Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Professor of International Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK, Marcel Brus, Professor of Public International Law and Panos Merkouris, Professor, Chair on Interpretation and Dispute Settlement in International Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlandswith Assistant Editor Agnes Rydberg, Lecturer in International Law, University of Sheffield, UK

• Contents:Preface xiPART I THEORIES, CONCEPTS AND ACTORS OFINTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND GOVERNANCE1 Actors and law-making in international environmental law 2Mark A. Drumbl and Kateřina Uhlířová2 Participation of non-State actors and global civil society in internationalenvironmental law-making and governance 46Otto Spijkers3 Corporate responsibility for environmental harm 63Markos Karavias4 International framework for environmental decision-making 84Geir Ulfstein5 An introduction to ethical considerations in international environmental law 107Alexander GillespiePART II PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW6 Sustainable development 131Duncan French7 The principles of prevention and precaution in international law: twoheads of the same coin? 152Nicolas de Sadeleer8 Environmental impact assessment 189Olufemi Elias and Meagan Wong9 Common but differentiated responsibilities 210Philippe CulletPART III DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AND COMPLIANCE10 Settlement of international environmental law disputes 231Natalie Klein and Danielle Kroon11 Environmental disputes in the WTO 260Joanna Gomula12 Compliance procedures and mechanisms 294Gerhard LoiblPART IV HUMAN RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE13 International climate law 322Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial14 Human rights and the environment: substantive rights 345Karen Morrow15 Domestic climate litigation’s turn to human rights and international climate law 368Marlies Hesselman16 Environmental protection in armed conflict 394Karen Hulme and Doug WeirPART V SELECTED ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGIMES17 The relationship between the law of international watercourses andsustainable development 415Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Virginie Barral18 International chemicals and waste management 443Katharina Kummer Peiry19 Environmental protection in the Antarctic and the Arctic: the role ofinternational law 461Kees Bastmeijer and Rachael Lorna JohnstoneIndex