Multilateral Environmental Treaties

Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law series

Edited by Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Professor of Public International Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK, Member of L’Institut de Droit International and Dr H.C. of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland and Attila Tanzi, Department of Law, University of Bologna, Italy, with Angeliki Papantoniou, Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK

This volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law presents an overview and selective analysis of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). These agreements encompass the regulating aspects of the protection, conservation, management, use and exploitation of living and natural resources in various areas: from biodiversity to fisheries, marine environment, shared freshwater resources, atmosphere, climate change, procedural obligations and rights and human rights, as well as Polar Regions. This book guides the reader through the multifarious conventional regulation of such areas of environmental protection, both at the global and regional levels, and details the path from the first post-war sectorial attempts at introducing international pieces of conventional environmental regulation to the booming of environmental instruments of the ‘90s and the recent fertile period of creation of new MEAs and their exponential growth.

‘The contributing authors to this volume include several established leading academics in the field of environmental law alongside early career researchers. Given the diversity of authorship the research quality is consistently of high quality, which is a credit to the editors. The volume will be a useful first stop text for students, academics as well as practicing lawyers and others involved in environmental governance.'
– Law Environment and Development Journal