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Title

State responsibility for transboundary air pollution in international law / Phoebe N. Okowa.

Author

Okowa, Phoebe N.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Description

xxxi, 285 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

• "State Responsibility for Transboundary Air Pollution in International Law analyses the unique nature of problems that transboundary air pollution presents in the international system. The complex international issues raised by air pollution need to be solved through the application and development of appropriate international law. Yet the legal implications and possible responses, including the need for new norms to be developed, have not been given adequate attention in the existing literature."
• "The book extensively considers regulatory frameworks as found in treaty regimes and non-binding instruments. The role and the shortcomings of traditional international law - in particular the regime of state responsibility - are given extended treatment. Particular attention is paid to problems posed by the multiple-party nature of the responsibility of polluting states. The potential role of institutions charged with supervising compliance is examined, and the status of emergent principles is critically assessed." "The issues examined in this book are of much contemporary relevance and will appeal to all who are interested in the applicability of international law to environmental problems."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Oxford monographs in international law

Uniform Title

Oxford monographs in international law

Subject

• Transboundary pollution > Law and legislation
• Liability for air pollution damages
• 86.75 environmental law
• Droit de l'environnement
• Droit international
• Pollution transfrontière
• Responsabilité de l'Etat
• Pollution de l'air
• Pollution radioactive
• Grenzüberschreitende Umweltbelastung
• Internationales Umweltrecht
• Luftverschmutzung
• Luchtverontreiniging
• Internationaal milieurecht
• Staatsaansprakelijkheid
• Transboundary air pollution
• State responsibility
• Environnement > Droit international
• Responsabilité pour dommages dus à la pollution atmosphérique
• Atmosphère > Pollution > Droit
• État > Responsabilité (droit international)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-278) and index.

Contents

1. Nature and Sources of Pollutants -- 2. Treaty Regimes Regulating Transboundary Air Pollution -- 3. General International Law and Transboundary Air Pollution: Norms, Concepts, and Principles -- 4. Norms of General International Law Applicable to Radioactive Contamination -- 5. Procedural Obligations of States -- 6. Determination of Responsibility -- 7. Judicial Remedies for Transboundary Air Pollution -- 8. Non-Judicial Methods of Supervision and Enforcement -- 9. Conclusions.

ISBN

• 0198260970
• 9780198260974

LCCN

00037461

OCLC

• ocm42745441
• 42745441
• SCSB-1237923

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library