Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law
Edited by Michael Faure
- Copyright
- Foreword to the Encyclopedia
- Contributors
- Introduction to Volume I
- Chapter I.1: The science of climate change: a legal perspective on the IPCC
- Chapter I.2: The precautionary principle and climate change
- Chapter I.3: Setting the social cost of carbon
- Chapter I.4: Human rights and climate change: building synergies for a common future
- Chapter I.5: Climate policy instrument choices
- Chapter I.6: Corporate social responsibility and climate change
- Chapter I.7: Local authorities and climate change
- Chapter I.8: Individual behaviour, the social sciences and climate change
- Chapter I.9: Criminal law and climate change
- Chapter I.10: Research and scholarship on climate change law in developing countries
- Chapter I.11: The climate as a global common
- Chapter I.12: CBDR and climate change
- Chapter I.13: The potential roles of the ICJ in climate change-related claims
- Chapter I.14: Unilateralism, extraterritoriality and climate change
- Chapter I.15: Climate engineering and international law
- Chapter I.16: Carbon capture and storage as a bridging technology*
- Chapter I.17: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: a framework approach to climate change
- Chapter I.18: The UNFCCC: legal scholarship in four key areas
- Chapter I.19: The Kyoto Protocol, with a special focus on the flexible mechanisms
- Chapter I.20: The Kyoto Protocol’s compliance mechanism
- Chapter I.21: REDD+ as a climate change mitigation mechanism
- Chapter I.22: International treaty fragmentation and climate change
- Chapter I.23: ICAO and IMO: international sectoral approaches to greenhouse gas reductions in transport
- Chapter I.24: Interlinkages between climate change, ozone depletion and air pollution: the international legal framework
- Chapter I.25: The WTO and climate change
- Chapter I.26: Climate change and international investment treaties
- Chapter I.27: Polycentrism and climate change
- Chapter I.28: Climate change federalism
- Chapter I.29: Environmental impact assessments and climate change
- Chapter I.30: The role of the national courts in GHG emissions reductions
- Chapter I.31: Greenhouse gas emissions trading in the EU
- Chapter I.32: North American greenhouse gas emission trading systems
- Chapter I.33: Emissions trading in China
- Chapter I.34: Traditional regulation’s role in greenhouse gas abatement
- Chapter I.35: Carbon taxes
- Chapter I.36: Transportation as a climate wedge and challenge under United States law
- Chapter I.37: Biofuel
- Chapter I.38: Renewable energy: support mechanisms
- Chapter I.39: Renewable energy: public acceptance and citizens’ financial participation
- Chapter I.40: Energy efficiency and conservation
- Chapter I.41: India’s climate change mitigation strategy
- Chapter I.42: Green growth policy in Korea
- Chapter I.43: Integrated water law and climate change: an EU perspective
- Chapter I.44: Water availability and allocation
- Chapter I.45: Managing ecosystem effects in an era of rapid climate change
- Chapter I.46: Ocean adaptation
- Chapter I.47: Coastal issues
- Chapter I.48: Adaptation and the energy sector
- Chapter I.49: Adaptation justice
- Chapter I.50: Loss and damage in the UN climate regime
- Chapter I.51: Indigenous peoples and climate change
- Chapter I.52: Human mobility and climate change
- Chapter I.53: Urban planning and climate change
- Chapter I.54: Insurance
- Chapter I.55: Disaster law and climate change
- Chapter I.56: The emergence of global climate law*
- Editors and contributors
- Foreword to Volume II
- Introduction to Volume II
- Chapter II.1: Global environmental constitutionalism: a rights-based primer for effective strategies
- Chapter II.2: International law and processes
- Chapter II.3: The courts, nuisance and environmental pollution—a matter of will?
- Chapter II.4: The intersection between environmental law and tort law
- Chapter II.5: The Public Trust Doctrine in environmental decison making
- Chapter II.6: Environmental federalism: a view from the United States
- Chapter II.7: Federal pre-emption and displacement of environmental statutes and common law claims
- Chapter II.8: Allocation of environmental law-making powers in Brazil
- Chapter II.9: Federalism, delegated permitting and enforcement
- Chapter II.10: Environmental decision making of local governments
- Chapter II.11: Goal-setting in environmental decision making
- Chapter II.12: Regulatory strategy diversity in United States environmental law
- Chapter II.13: Market-based control strategies
- Chapter II.14: Decisions about emissions trading design
- Chapter II.15: Information mandates as environmental regulation
- Chapter II.16: The law of environmental planning
- Chapter II.17: Environmental permits: origins and nature and recent tendencies
- Chapter II.18: Motivating without mandates? The role of voluntary programs in environmental governance
- Chapter II.19: Private environmental governance
- Chapter II.20: The National Environmental Policy Act
- Chapter II.21: Climate change and environmental impact assessment
- Chapter II.22: Cost-benefit analysis
- Chapter II.23: Public participation in environmental decision making
- Chapter II.24: Participation in environmental decision making in European law
- Chapter II.25: Access to information: international perspective
- Chapter II.26: Environmental justice
- Chapter II.27: Internal administrative appeals of governmental decisions on the environment
- Chapter II.28: Standing and related doctrines
- Chapter II.29: Judicial review of agency statutory interpretations in environmental law
- Chapter II.30: Judicial review of agency environmental decision making
- Chapter II.31: Citizen enforcement
- Chapter II.32: Public intervenors and public funding in environmental decision making
- Chapter II.33: Are international courts the best adjudicators of environmental disputes?
- Chapter II.34: Environmental courts and tribunals*
- Editors and contributors
- Foreword to Volume III
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to Volume III: The research challenges of international biodiversity law
- Chapter III.1: Historical perspectives on the challenge of biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.2: Sovereignty, conservation and sustainable use
- Chapter III.3: The historical roots of the North-South dynamic in biodiversity conservation and its imprint on the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Chapter III.4: Sustainable development and equity in biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.5: The ecosystem approach and the precautionary principle
- Chapter III.6: Nature capital: valuation and payments for ecosystem services
- Chapter III.7: Species-based conservation
- Chapter III.8: Terrestrial areas protection
- Chapter III.9: Marine biodiversity: unravelling the intricacies of global frameworks and applicable concepts
- Chapter III.10: Indigenous peoples’ and community conserved territories and areas (ICCAs): evolution in international biodiversity law
- Chapter III.11: Mountain biodiversity
- Chapter III.12: Island biodiversity
- Chapter III.13: Inland water biodiversity: international law on protection of transboundary freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity
- Chapter III.14: Forest biodiversity
- Chapter III.15: Dryland biodiversity: ecosystems, people and the law
- Chapter III.16: Biosafety law
- Chapter III.17: Access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing
- Chapter III.18: Agriculture and biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.19: Traditional knowledge
- Chapter III.20: Invasive alien species
- Chapter III.21: Biodiversity and climate change
- Chapter III.22: REDD+ and biodiversity
- Chapter III.23: Trade, investment and biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.24: Gender and the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Chapter III.25: Biofuels
- Chapter III.26: Technology transfer
- Chapter III.27: Ecotourism
- Chapter III.28: Non-state actors
- Chapter III.29: International financial institutions and biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.30: European Union
- Chapter III.31: Biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment
- Chapter III.32: Liability, redress and the Cartagena Protocol
- Chapter III.33: Monitoring and compliance mechanisms
- Chapter III.34: Public participation in biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.35: The international finance for biodiversity and the Global Environment Facility
- Chapter III.36: Concluding remarks
- Editors and contributors
- Foreword to Volume IV
- Introduction to Volume IV
- Chapter IV.1: Voluntary self-policing and the US Audit Policy
- Chapter IV.2: Using management systems in public environmental supervision
- Chapter IV.3: The role of environmental management systems
- Chapter IV.4: Compliance, deterrence and beyond
- Chapter IV.5: Liability law and nuisance in the civil law tradition
- Chapter IV.6: Common law tools to protect the environment1
- Chapter IV.7: Enforcement strategies: inspection, targeting and escalation
- Chapter IV.8: Enforceable regulations
- Chapter IV.9: Effective environmental monitoring and reporting
- Chapter IV.10: Environmental civil penalties—an Australian perspective
- Chapter IV.11: Settlement of environmental enforcement disputes
- Chapter IV.12: Procedures and standards for review of enforcement actions
- Chapter IV.13: Enforcement by local governments
- Chapter IV.14: Mental state
- Chapter IV.15: Organizational liability for environmental crimes
- Chapter IV.16: Towards intelligence-led environmental enforcement
- Chapter IV.17: Quantitatively measuring deterrence: empirical tools for assessing the impact of environmental monitoring and enforcement actions
- Chapter IV.18: Environmental compliance and enforcement measurement: why, what and how?
- Editors and contributors
- Foreword to Volume V
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume V
- Chapter V.1: The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity
- Chapter V.2: Bonn Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals 1979
- Chapter V.3: Agreements under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
- Chapter V.4: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification 1994
- Chapter V.5: Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 1972
- Chapter V.6: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora 1973
- Chapter V.7: Central American Convention for the Protection of the Environment
- Chapter V.8: International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling 1946
- Chapter V.9: Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat 1971 (Ramsar)
- Chapter V.10: Convention Concerning Fishing in the Black Sea 1959
- Chapter V.11: The Black Sea Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Protocol to the Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution 2002
- Chapter V.12: The Black Sea Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Protocol
- Chapter V.13: Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region 1983
- Chapter V.14: The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982
- Chapter V.15: International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships MARPOL 2012 (and Annexes I, II, III, IV, V, VI)
- Chapter V.16: Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter 1972 and 1996 Protocol
- Chapter V.17: The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (the ‘OSPAR Convention’) (and Annexes I, II, III, IV)
- Chapter V.18: Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area 1992
- Chapter V.19: Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean and its Protocols
- Chapter V.20: Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution 1992
- Chapter V.21: Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region 1983
- Chapter V.22: Protocol Concerning Co-operation in Combating Oil Spills in the Wider Caribbean Region
- Chapter V.23: Protocol to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region Concerning Land-Based Sources of Marine Pollution
- Chapter V.24: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses 1997
- Chapter V.25: Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes 1992 (The UNECE Helsinki Convention)
- Chapter V.26: Agreements on the Protection of the Rivers Meuse and Scheldt 1994
- Chapter V.27: Convention on Cooperation for the Protection and Sustainable Use of the Danube River 1994
- Chapter V.28: Rotterdam Convention on the Protection of the Rhine 1998
- Chapter V.29: Finnish-Russian Agreement concerning frontier watercourses
- Chapter V.30: The Guarani Aquifer Agreement 2010*
- Chapter V.31: Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 1985 (Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer)
- Chapter V.32: The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 1989
- Chapter V.33: The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 1998
- Chapter V.34: Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 2001 (UNEP) (POPs)
- Chapter V.35: The Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa 1991
- Chapter V.36: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992
- Chapter V.37: Espoo Convention on Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment and Kiev Protocol on Strategic Environmental AssessmentEspooConventionandKievProtocol
- Chapter V.38: The UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
- Chapter V.39: Energy Charter Treaty: An Overview
- Chapter V.40: The Antarctic Treaty 1959: Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty
- Volume VI: Chemicals and the Law (forthcoming)
- Volume VII: Water Law (forthcoming)
- Volume VIII: Principles of Environmental Law (forthcoming)
- Volume IX: Policy Instruments in Environmental Law (forthcoming)
- Volume X: Trade and Environmental Law (forthcoming)
- Volume XI: Human Rights and the Environmen (forthcoming)
- Volume XII: Energy and Environmental Law (forthcoming)
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- Foreword to the Encyclopedia
- Contributors
- Introduction to Volume I
- Chapter I.1: The science of climate change: a legal perspective on the IPCC
- Chapter I.2: The precautionary principle and climate change
- Chapter I.3: Setting the social cost of carbon
- Chapter I.4: Human rights and climate change: building synergies for a common future
- Chapter I.5: Climate policy instrument choices
- Chapter I.6: Corporate social responsibility and climate change
- Chapter I.7: Local authorities and climate change
- Chapter I.8: Individual behaviour, the social sciences and climate change
- Chapter I.9: Criminal law and climate change
- Chapter I.10: Research and scholarship on climate change law in developing countries
- Chapter I.11: The climate as a global common
- Chapter I.12: CBDR and climate change
- Chapter I.13: The potential roles of the ICJ in climate change-related claims
- Chapter I.14: Unilateralism, extraterritoriality and climate change
- Chapter I.15: Climate engineering and international law
- Chapter I.16: Carbon capture and storage as a bridging technology*
- Chapter I.17: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: a framework approach to climate change
- Chapter I.18: The UNFCCC: legal scholarship in four key areas
- Chapter I.19: The Kyoto Protocol, with a special focus on the flexible mechanisms
- Chapter I.20: The Kyoto Protocol’s compliance mechanism
- Chapter I.21: REDD+ as a climate change mitigation mechanism
- Chapter I.22: International treaty fragmentation and climate change
- Chapter I.23: ICAO and IMO: international sectoral approaches to greenhouse gas reductions in transport
- Chapter I.24: Interlinkages between climate change, ozone depletion and air pollution: the international legal framework
- Chapter I.25: The WTO and climate change
- Chapter I.26: Climate change and international investment treaties
- Chapter I.27: Polycentrism and climate change
- Chapter I.28: Climate change federalism
- Chapter I.29: Environmental impact assessments and climate change
- Chapter I.30: The role of the national courts in GHG emissions reductions
- Chapter I.31: Greenhouse gas emissions trading in the EU
- Chapter I.32: North American greenhouse gas emission trading systems
- Chapter I.33: Emissions trading in China
- Chapter I.34: Traditional regulation’s role in greenhouse gas abatement
- Chapter I.35: Carbon taxes
- Chapter I.36: Transportation as a climate wedge and challenge under United States law
- Chapter I.37: Biofuel
- Chapter I.38: Renewable energy: support mechanisms
- Chapter I.39: Renewable energy: public acceptance and citizens’ financial participation
- Chapter I.40: Energy efficiency and conservation
- Chapter I.41: India’s climate change mitigation strategy
- Chapter I.42: Green growth policy in Korea
- Chapter I.43: Integrated water law and climate change: an EU perspective
- Chapter I.44: Water availability and allocation
- Chapter I.45: Managing ecosystem effects in an era of rapid climate change
- Chapter I.46: Ocean adaptation
- Chapter I.47: Coastal issues
- Chapter I.48: Adaptation and the energy sector
- Chapter I.49: Adaptation justice
- Chapter I.50: Loss and damage in the UN climate regime
- Chapter I.51: Indigenous peoples and climate change
- Chapter I.52: Human mobility and climate change
- Chapter I.53: Urban planning and climate change
- Chapter I.54: Insurance
- Chapter I.55: Disaster law and climate change
- Chapter I.56: The emergence of global climate law*
- Editors and contributors
- Foreword to Volume II
- Introduction to Volume II
- Chapter II.1: Global environmental constitutionalism: a rights-based primer for effective strategies
- Chapter II.2: International law and processes
- Chapter II.3: The courts, nuisance and environmental pollution—a matter of will?
- Chapter II.4: The intersection between environmental law and tort law
- Chapter II.5: The Public Trust Doctrine in environmental decison making
- Chapter II.6: Environmental federalism: a view from the United States
- Chapter II.7: Federal pre-emption and displacement of environmental statutes and common law claims
- Chapter II.8: Allocation of environmental law-making powers in Brazil
- Chapter II.9: Federalism, delegated permitting and enforcement
- Chapter II.10: Environmental decision making of local governments
- Chapter II.11: Goal-setting in environmental decision making
- Chapter II.12: Regulatory strategy diversity in United States environmental law
- Chapter II.13: Market-based control strategies
- Chapter II.14: Decisions about emissions trading design
- Chapter II.15: Information mandates as environmental regulation
- Chapter II.16: The law of environmental planning
- Chapter II.17: Environmental permits: origins and nature and recent tendencies
- Chapter II.18: Motivating without mandates? The role of voluntary programs in environmental governance
- Chapter II.19: Private environmental governance
- Chapter II.20: The National Environmental Policy Act
- Chapter II.21: Climate change and environmental impact assessment
- Chapter II.22: Cost-benefit analysis
- Chapter II.23: Public participation in environmental decision making
- Chapter II.24: Participation in environmental decision making in European law
- Chapter II.25: Access to information: international perspective
- Chapter II.26: Environmental justice
- Chapter II.27: Internal administrative appeals of governmental decisions on the environment
- Chapter II.28: Standing and related doctrines
- Chapter II.29: Judicial review of agency statutory interpretations in environmental law
- Chapter II.30: Judicial review of agency environmental decision making
- Chapter II.31: Citizen enforcement
- Chapter II.32: Public intervenors and public funding in environmental decision making
- Chapter II.33: Are international courts the best adjudicators of environmental disputes?
- Chapter II.34: Environmental courts and tribunals*
- Editors and contributors
- Foreword to Volume III
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to Volume III: The research challenges of international biodiversity law
- Chapter III.1: Historical perspectives on the challenge of biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.2: Sovereignty, conservation and sustainable use
- Chapter III.3: The historical roots of the North-South dynamic in biodiversity conservation and its imprint on the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Chapter III.4: Sustainable development and equity in biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.5: The ecosystem approach and the precautionary principle
- Chapter III.6: Nature capital: valuation and payments for ecosystem services
- Chapter III.7: Species-based conservation
- Chapter III.8: Terrestrial areas protection
- Chapter III.9: Marine biodiversity: unravelling the intricacies of global frameworks and applicable concepts
- Chapter III.10: Indigenous peoples’ and community conserved territories and areas (ICCAs): evolution in international biodiversity law
- Chapter III.11: Mountain biodiversity
- Chapter III.12: Island biodiversity
- Chapter III.13: Inland water biodiversity: international law on protection of transboundary freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity
- Chapter III.14: Forest biodiversity
- Chapter III.15: Dryland biodiversity: ecosystems, people and the law
- Chapter III.16: Biosafety law
- Chapter III.17: Access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing
- Chapter III.18: Agriculture and biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.19: Traditional knowledge
- Chapter III.20: Invasive alien species
- Chapter III.21: Biodiversity and climate change
- Chapter III.22: REDD+ and biodiversity
- Chapter III.23: Trade, investment and biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.24: Gender and the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Chapter III.25: Biofuels
- Chapter III.26: Technology transfer
- Chapter III.27: Ecotourism
- Chapter III.28: Non-state actors
- Chapter III.29: International financial institutions and biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.30: European Union
- Chapter III.31: Biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment
- Chapter III.32: Liability, redress and the Cartagena Protocol
- Chapter III.33: Monitoring and compliance mechanisms
- Chapter III.34: Public participation in biodiversity conservation
- Chapter III.35: The international finance for biodiversity and the Global Environment Facility
- Chapter III.36: Concluding remarks
- Editors and contributors
- Foreword to Volume IV
- Introduction to Volume IV
- Chapter IV.1: Voluntary self-policing and the US Audit Policy
- Chapter IV.2: Using management systems in public environmental supervision
- Chapter IV.3: The role of environmental management systems
- Chapter IV.4: Compliance, deterrence and beyond
- Chapter IV.5: Liability law and nuisance in the civil law tradition
- Chapter IV.6: Common law tools to protect the environment1
- Chapter IV.7: Enforcement strategies: inspection, targeting and escalation
- Chapter IV.8: Enforceable regulations
- Chapter IV.9: Effective environmental monitoring and reporting
- Chapter IV.10: Environmental civil penalties—an Australian perspective
- Chapter IV.11: Settlement of environmental enforcement disputes
- Chapter IV.12: Procedures and standards for review of enforcement actions
- Chapter IV.13: Enforcement by local governments
- Chapter IV.14: Mental state
- Chapter IV.15: Organizational liability for environmental crimes
- Chapter IV.16: Towards intelligence-led environmental enforcement
- Chapter IV.17: Quantitatively measuring deterrence: empirical tools for assessing the impact of environmental monitoring and enforcement actions
- Chapter IV.18: Environmental compliance and enforcement measurement: why, what and how?
- Editors and contributors
- Foreword to Volume V
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume V
- Chapter V.1: The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity
- Chapter V.2: Bonn Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals 1979
- Chapter V.3: Agreements under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
- Chapter V.4: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification 1994
- Chapter V.5: Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 1972
- Chapter V.6: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora 1973
- Chapter V.7: Central American Convention for the Protection of the Environment
- Chapter V.8: International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling 1946
- Chapter V.9: Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat 1971 (Ramsar)
- Chapter V.10: Convention Concerning Fishing in the Black Sea 1959
- Chapter V.11: The Black Sea Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Protocol to the Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution 2002
- Chapter V.12: The Black Sea Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Protocol
- Chapter V.13: Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region 1983
- Chapter V.14: The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982
- Chapter V.15: International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships MARPOL 2012 (and Annexes I, II, III, IV, V, VI)
- Chapter V.16: Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter 1972 and 1996 Protocol
- Chapter V.17: The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (the ‘OSPAR Convention’) (and Annexes I, II, III, IV)
- Chapter V.18: Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area 1992
- Chapter V.19: Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean and its Protocols
- Chapter V.20: Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution 1992
- Chapter V.21: Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region 1983
- Chapter V.22: Protocol Concerning Co-operation in Combating Oil Spills in the Wider Caribbean Region
- Chapter V.23: Protocol to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region Concerning Land-Based Sources of Marine Pollution
- Chapter V.24: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses 1997
- Chapter V.25: Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes 1992 (The UNECE Helsinki Convention)
- Chapter V.26: Agreements on the Protection of the Rivers Meuse and Scheldt 1994
- Chapter V.27: Convention on Cooperation for the Protection and Sustainable Use of the Danube River 1994
- Chapter V.28: Rotterdam Convention on the Protection of the Rhine 1998
- Chapter V.29: Finnish-Russian Agreement concerning frontier watercourses
- Chapter V.30: The Guarani Aquifer Agreement 2010*
- Chapter V.31: Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 1985 (Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer)
- Chapter V.32: The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 1989
- Chapter V.33: The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 1998
- Chapter V.34: Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 2001 (UNEP) (POPs)
- Chapter V.35: The Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa 1991
- Chapter V.36: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992
- Chapter V.37: Espoo Convention on Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment and Kiev Protocol on Strategic Environmental AssessmentEspooConventionandKievProtocol
- Chapter V.38: The UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
- Chapter V.39: Energy Charter Treaty: An Overview
- Chapter V.40: The Antarctic Treaty 1959: Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty
- Volume VI: Chemicals and the Law (forthcoming)
- Volume VII: Water Law (forthcoming)
- Volume VIII: Principles of Environmental Law (forthcoming)
- Volume IX: Policy Instruments in Environmental Law (forthcoming)
- Volume X: Trade and Environmental Law (forthcoming)
- Volume XI: Human Rights and the Environmen (forthcoming)
- Volume XII: Energy and Environmental Law (forthcoming)