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RECORD NUMBER: 26 OF 31Main Title | The global environment and international law / | |||||||||||
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Author | DiMento, Joseph F. | |||||||||||
Publisher | University of Texas Press, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2003 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 50316314 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0292716249; 9780292716247; 0292716206; 9780292716209 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Environmental law, International ; Internationaal milieurecht ; Droit de l'environnement ; Droit international ; Protection de l'environnement | |||||||||||
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Edition | 1st ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | xiv, 248 pages ; 23 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-236) and index. |
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Contents Notes | Worldwide environmental quality and the role of law -- Law trying to save the earth : strategies, institutions, organizations -- Law's targets : whose behavior needs to be influenced? -- An accounting : successes and failures in international environmental law -- International environmental law : expectations and recommendations. Joseph DiMento reviews the record of international efforts to use law to make our planet more livable. He looks at how law has been successfully employed, often in highly innovative ways, to influence the environmental decisions of governments, multinational corporations & individuals. |