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International Law and Pollution provides an overview of international legal principles and institutional efforts relevant to pollution and then focuses on two particularly acute problems: nuclear pollution and acid rain.
International Law and Pollution provides an overview of international legal principles and institutional efforts relevant to pollution and then focuses on two particularly acute problems: nuclear pollution and acid rain.
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Part I: International Law and Pollution: An Overview
1. International Law and Pollution
2. International Pollution, Economic Development, and Human Rights
3. Overview of the Existing Customary Legal Regime Regarding International Pollution
4. International Liability and International Watercourses: The Work of the International Law Commission Relating to International Pollution
5. State Responsibility and International Pollution: A Practical Perspective
Part II: Pollution from Nuclear Accidents
6. Overview of Legal and Technical Aspects of Nuclear Accident Pollution
7. Paying the Piper for Transboundary Nuclear Damage: State Liability in a System of Transnational Compensation
8. Measuring Liability for Damage Due to Radioactivity
9. Pollution from Nuclear Accidents
Part III. Acid Deposition: Regional and Bilateral Approaches
10. Acid Deposition: Policies, Politics, and Practicalities
11. Introduction to the Scientific Aspects of Acid Deposition
12. The European Approach to Acid Rain
13. Acid Rain: A Canadian Policy Perspective
14. International Law and the Canada-United States Acid Rain Dispute
15. Acid Rain: A United States Policy Perspective
16. International Legal Implications of United States Policy on Acid Deposition
Contributors
Index
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