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Evolution of international environmental regimes : the case of climate change /

"Drawing specifically on the international climate regime, Simone Schiele examines international environmental regimes from a legal perspective and analyses a core feature of international regimes - their ability to evolve over time. In particular, she develops a theoretical framework based on...

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Main Author: Schiele, Simone
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ;
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introductory observations and approach; 2. International environmental regimes and their treaties; 3. International climate regime; 4. Effectiveness of international environmental regimes and 'creative legal engineering'; 5. International regimes as normative systems; 6. Methodology for determining the norms, sources and underlying theories of international law in the international climate regime; 7. Sources of legal norms in the international climate regime and the negotiations leading up to and at the Copenhagen conference; 8. Sources of legal norms in the international climate regime and Compliance Committee methods of interpretation; 9. Increasing robustness of the international climate regime as a system of norms; 10. Conclusions.