The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law

Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli is Lecturer at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and a Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance. Before joining King's College London, she was Philomathia Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. Duvic-Paoli is a public international lawyer, who researches and teaches in the fields of international environmental law and climate and energy law. She holds Master's degrees from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

• Introduction; Part I. From Reparation to Prevention: International Environmental Law through the Lenses of Prevention: 1. The foundations of prevention: reparation and resource management; 2. The paradigm shift: prevention as the cornerstone of international environmental law; Part II. The Normative Impacts of the Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law; 3. Prevention in treaty law; 4. Prevention in international customary law; 5. Prevention in the jurisprudence; Part III. The Three Definitional Dimensions of Prevention: 6. Prevention and risk anticipation: the rationale; 7. Prevention and proactivity: content; 8. Prevention and the protection of the environment: spatial scope; 9. Prevention and its relationship with other environmental norms; Part IV. Prevention as a Consolidated norm: Current Trends and Future Prospects: 10. Role and place of prevention in the international legal order; 11. The frontiers of prevention? Reparation and compliance control; Conclusion.

'In the most convincing way, this book provides a systematic and comprehensive assessment of the state of international environmental law with regard to the principle of prevention through the analysis of its historical, present, and potential evolutions. The result provides an indispensable tool for practitioners as well as scholars.' Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Emeritus Professor, University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, and The Graduate Institute, Geneva