Product Description: Global warming is the most severe environmental challenge faced by humanity today and the costs of responding effectively will be high. While Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol ensures the treaty's entry into force, lack of capacity, or incentives to renege on their commitments, will impede mitigation efforts in many countries...read more

Product Description: At fifty, the European Court of Human Rights finds itself in a new institutional setting. With the EU joining the European Convention on Human Rights in the near future, and the Court increasingly having to address the responsibility of states in UN-lead military operations, the Court faces important challenges at the national, European and international levels...read more

Product Description: The effective implementation of human rights treaty obligations in national law is subject to increasing attention. The main responsibility for the international monitoring of national implementation at the global level is entrusted to the UN human rights treaty bodies...read more

Product Description: The book examines one of the most debated issues in current international law: to what extent the international legal system has constitutional features comparable to what we find in national law. This question has become increasingly relevant in a time of globalization, where new international institutions and courts are established to address international issues...read more

Product Description: The Yearbook of International Environmental Law has established itself as a vital source of information and analysis in an increasingly important legal field. The contributors for this volume are drawn from experts across the world who, together with the expert team of editors, have created the best source of information on world-wide events in this field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The yearbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive review of internationally significant environmental legal developments. A `Year-In-Review' section summarizes year-by-year trends organized by subject-matter, key countries or regions, and international governmental as well as non-governmental organizations...read more

Product Description: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.