Sustainable development and the protection of the environment are concepts that have become inescapably connected. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in September 2002, the challenges facing the global environment were discussed at length. Air, water and marine pollution continue to rob millions of a decent life, loss of biodiversity continues, fish stocks are being depleted, desertification claims more fertile land, climate changes are having devastating effects, natural disasters are more frequent and developing countries are even more vulnerable. (Principle 13).
This volume examines these important issues and adapts a practical approach. It outlines the programme of sustainable development in concrete fields of economic and environmental cooperation.
The concept for this volume originated from the Conference on Exploitation and Management of Natural Resources in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge of Sustainable Development. The Conference was organised by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the Department of Law at Queen Mary, University of London.
Foreword,
Professor T. Wälde, Preface Sustainable
Development in the European Union Treaties and in National Legislation: Some
conclusions
Nigel Haigh, The International Dimension of EU Energy Law
and Policy
Thomas Wälde, General Principles of Sustainable
Development: From Soft Law to Hard Law
Gerhard Hafner, Sustainable
Development, War Reparations and Environmental Damage
Olufemi Elias,
Incorporating Sustaineble Development Concerns into the Development and
Investment Process- the World Bank Experience
David Freestone, The
Progressive Integration of Environmental Protections within Offshore Joint
Development Agreements
David M. Ong, The Customary International Law of
Transboundary Fresh Waters
Joseph W. Dellapenna, New Era in
Luso-Spanish relations in the Management of Shared Basins? The Challenge of
Sustainability
Paulo Canelas de Castro, Finnish-Swedish Frontier River
Commission- Effective Water Co-operation
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice,
Legal and Institutional Aspects of Management Arrangements for Shared Stocks
of Marine Fish
Daniel Owen, Participants, Index
