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International Environment and Development Treatises

Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making. Scott Barrett
INTL KZ1318 .B37 2003
This broad analysis, of both well known and lesser known environmental treaties, provides insight into what international environmental treaties try to accomplish and why they succeed or fail.

Environment and Trade: A Guide to WTO Jurisprudence. Nathalie Bernasconi-0sterwalder
INTL K4610 .E58 2006
A very useful resource for an analysis of some of the major WTO environmental cases (e.g. Dolphin/Tuna) and many of the relevant WTO/GATT provisions.

Guide to International Environmental Law. Alexandre Kiss and Dinah Shelton
INTL K3585.4 .K5695 2007
A brief overview of international law in general, with an in depth focus on how international environmental law was formed historically, as well as an analysis of newer topics such as environmental protection as a human right.

International Environmental Law in a Nutshell. Lakshman D. Guruswamy with Kevin L. Doran
K3585.6 .G87 2007 (Available at both Georgetown Law libraries)
This study aid is from the popular nutshell series and offers a concise overview of environmental law history, major topics (e.g. vessel-based pollution) and relevant policies

International Environmental Law: Basic Instruments and References, 1992-1999. Edith Brown Weiss, Daniel Barstow Magraw, Paul C. Szasz
K3583 .W45 1999
This is an update to an excellent combination of the actual text of treaties (and other legal instruments) and a brief historical contextualization commentary on these documents

Interlinkages and the Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements. W. Bradnee Chambers
INTL K3585 .C43 2008
Presents a selected history of environmental law and two brief case studies, one about environmental law and one about sustainable development law

Principles of International Environmental Law. Philippe Sands
INTL K3585 .S265 2003
This second edition of a comprehensive overview of international environmental law includes an excellent index, which makes finding discussions about certain major environmental cases and treaties easy to locate.

Sustainable Development and International Law. Winfried Lang, ed.
INTL K3584.6 1994a
This printing of symposium papers presents an overview of the major debates and topics in sustainable development law, a report from this symposium "became an official document of the second session of the" UN Commission on Sustantible Development.

Theory and practice of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment. Kees Bastmeijer and Timo Koivurova, eds.
INTL TD194.6 .T47 2008
An examination of thirteen different systems of transboundary environmental impact assessment throughout the world with a focus on marine environments.

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