Defending the Environment promotes the use and awareness of several different international, regional, and domestic strategies designed to safeguard the environment and public health.The text emphasizes practice as well as theory; unlike works devoted exclusively to theoretical aspects of international environmental law and policy, the authors provide the what, how, when, where, and why for resolving environmental and public health problems in front of international courts, tribunals, commissions, committees, secretariats, and, at times, their domestic counterparts.This is an indispensible handbook for anyone who needs to be aware of the important legal and political strategies made available to them by various instruments of international law.Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Defending the Environment: Civil Society's Strategies to Enforce International Environmental Laws

Malone, Linda A.

Pasternack, Scott

Foreign & International Law

Martinus Nijhoff

Defending the Environment provides the means for nongovernmental organizations, community groups, and individuals to bring environmental and public health problems to the attention of international courts, tribunals, and commissions, or to their domestic counterparts. It suggests specific strategies and provides detailed information for taking action. This revised and updated edition also contains new case studies of the application of those strategies that has occurred in recent years.
Each chapter provides a description of the institutional mechanisms that can potentially receive, review, and remedy the alleged violation, along with a set of guidelines that explain how the reader can employ a particular strategy, and an example that indicates the effectiveness of a given strategy. In addition, the book offers an appendix that lists individuals and organizations who can assist with the various strategies described.
Defending the Environment represents the first concise, comprehensive guide to international environmental law and institutions that offers readers hands-on strategies for addressing environmental and public health problems.

Defending the Environment: Civil Society Strategies to Enforce International Environmental Law

Malone, Linda

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Island Press

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