LEADER 03756nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910777691703321 005 20230911153302.0 010 $a0-292-79777-X 024 7 $a10.7560/716209 035 $a(CKB)1000000000453912 035 $a(OCoLC)609312671 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10188321 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000163329 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11924437 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000163329 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10106949 035 $a(PQKB)11501802 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443026 035 $a(DE-B1597)587745 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292797772 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000453912 100 $a20150424d2003 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGlobal Environment and International Law$b[electronic resource] /$fJoseph F.C. DiMento 210 $aAustin, TX, USA $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2003 210 $cUniversity of Texas Press 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71620-6 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tList of Acronyms -- $t1. Worldwide Environmental Quality and the Role of Law -- $t2. Law Trying to Save the Earth: Strategies, Institutions, Organizations -- $t3. Law?s Targets:Whose Behavior Needs to Be Influenced? -- $t4. An Accounting: Successes and Failures in International Environmental Law -- $t5. International Environmental Law: Expectations and Recommendations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tGeneral Index -- $tAuthor Index -- $tConventions Index -- $tCase Index 330 $aInternational law has become the key arena for protecting the global environment. Since the 1970s, literally hundreds of international treaties, protocols, conventions, and rules under customary law have been enacted to deal with such problems as global warming, biodiversity loss, and toxic pollution. Proponents of the legal approach to environmental protection have already achieved significant successes in such areas as saving endangered species, reducing pollution, and cleaning up whole regions, but skeptics point to ongoing environmental degradation to argue that international law is an ineffective tool for protecting the global environment. In this book, Joseph DiMento reviews the record of international efforts to use law to make our planet more livable. He looks at how law has been used successfully?often in highly innovative ways?to influence the environmental actions of governments, multinational corporations, and individuals. And he also assesses the failures of international law in order to make policy recommendations that could increase the effectiveness of environmental law. He concludes that a "supranational model" is not the preferred way to influence the actions of sovereign nations and that international environmental law has been and must continue to be a laboratory to test approaches to lawmaking and implementation for the global community. 606 $aEnvironmental law, International 606 $aLAW$2bisac 606 $aEnvironmental$2bisac 606 $aLaw, Politics & Government$2HILCC 606 $aLaw, General & Comparative$2HILCC 615 0$aEnvironmental law, International. 615 7$aLAW 615 7$aEnvironmental 615 7$aLaw, Politics & Government 615 7$aLaw, General & Comparative 676 $a341.7/62 700 $aDiMento$b Joseph F. C$0312548 801 0$bPQKB 801 2$bAzTeS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777691703321 996 $aGlobal environment and international law$9740280 997 $aUNINA