Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development from Rio to Rio+20: Protection de l’environnement et développement durable de Rio à Rio+20 (Queen Mary Studies in International Law, 15) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004282904 ISBN 13: 9789004282902

Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff, 2014

Synopsis

The Challenges of Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development from Rio to Rio+20 and Beyond is an innovative and original book which addresses in an analytical and critical way the issues raised by Rio+20. Its content offers a wealth of information from world leading experts in the fields of international law, international environmental law and international health law. The book provides a unique insight in issues which are at the core of the contemporary management of social, environmental and economic questions and thus represents a very important contribution to our further understanding of the concept of sustainable development. It is aimed at a global audience and at anybody interested in the future of our Planet and the fate of future generations.

Contributors are: Pia Acconci, Estelle Brosset, Francesco Buonomenna, Lucien Chabason, Carina Costa de Oliveira, Angela Di Stasi, Jérôme Dubois, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Leonardus Gerber, Elizabeth Hodson de Jaramillo, Sophie Lavallée, Antonio Leandro, Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Panos Merkouris, Claudia Napoli, Stefania Negri, Anna Oriolo, Rossana Palladino, Teresa Russo, Ingrid Schuler, Francesco Sindico, José Manuel Sobrino Heredia, Hélène Tigroudja, Valentina Vadi, Anna Vigorito

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About the Author

Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Ph.D., University of Warsaw, is Professor of Public International Law at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London. She has published extensively on international environmental law, the law of treaties, indigenous peoples and Arctic law.

Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Ph.D., University Aix-Marseille, is Director of research at CNRS and Director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales et Communautaires. She has published extensively on international environmental law, the international climate regime and sustainable development.

Stefania Negri, Ph.D., University of Salerno, is Associate Professor of International law at the School of Law and Director of the Observatory on Human Rights: Bioethics, Health, Environment. She has published extensively on human rights, international biolaw and health law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004282904
• ISBN 13: 9789004282902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 428
• Editor: Fitzmaurice Malgosia, Maljean-Dubois Sandrine, Negri Stefania