Responsibility for Environmental Damage (Principles of Inteational Environmental Law series)

by: Jason Rudall (Author)

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Publication Date: 2024/4/10

Language: English

Print Length: 352 pages

ISBN-10: 180392070X

ISBN-13: 9781803920702

Book Description

Engaging with one of the most consequential issues of our time, this book provides a thoughtful analysis of responsibility for environmental damage under inteational law. It conceives of responsibility in a comprehensive way, tackling the legal responsibility, liability and accountability of state and non-state actors for harm they cause to the environment.Responsibility for Environmental Damage traverses the primary and secondary rules of inteational law, the responsibility, liability and accountability of states, inteational organizations, corporations and individuals, as well as existing, new and emerging regulatory frameworks. It engages with the consequences of environmental harm, appraising both orthodox legal doctrines and cutting-edge questions like shared responsibility, equitable considerations, full reparation, response measures under liability regimes, corporate responsibility, ecocide and responsibility for climate change, amongst many others. In doing so, the book evaluates whether the law is equipped to deal with the novel challenges that environmental damage presents and argues that new legal tools are needed to effectively tackle some of the most significant threats to our planet.This book is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars who conduct research on responsibility, liability or accountability for environmental damage in the areas of public inteational law, inteational environmental law, human rights, inteational criminal law and inteational economic law. Inteational law practitioners, judges, arbitrators, policymakers, and those working for think-tanks and NGOs will similarly benefit from this valuable work.

About the Author

Engaging with one of the most consequential issues of our time, this book provides a thoughtful analysis of responsibility for environmental damage under inteational law. It conceives of responsibility in a comprehensive way, tackling the legal responsibility, liability and accountability of state and non-state actors for harm they cause to the environment.Responsibility for Environmental Damage traverses the primary and secondary rules of inteational law, the responsibility, liability and accountability of states, inteational organizations, corporations and individuals, as well as existing, new and emerging regulatory frameworks. It engages with the consequences of environmental harm, appraising both orthodox legal doctrines and cutting-edge questions like shared responsibility, equitable considerations, full reparation, response measures under liability regimes, corporate responsibility, ecocide and responsibility for climate change, amongst many others. In doing so, the book evaluates whether the law is equipped to deal with the novel challenges that environmental damage presents and argues that new legal tools are needed to effectively tackle some of the most significant threats to our planet.This book is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars who conduct research on responsibility, liability or accountability for environmental damage in the areas of public inteational law, inteational environmental law, human rights, inteational criminal law and inteational economic law. Inteational law practitioners, judges, arbitrators, policymakers, and those working for think-tanks and NGOs will similarly benefit from this valuable work.