Book Description

Emphasizing the environmental, social and human damage caused by non-sustainable development, this book provides readers with an incisive and integrated approach to the political, economic, scientific and technological realities and challenges facing international environmental law and policy today. In addition to an in-depth survey of the past, present and future of this important and rapidly expanding field, this new book offers innovative chapters on such crucial current imperatives as: the nature and scope of the challenge; first principles of international environmental law; environment and human rights; environment and the nexus of international trade, finance and debt; and the unfinished agenda.