This chapter focuses on the legal links between the conservation of cultural and natural heritage at international and regional levels. The chapter canvasses a number of ‘soft law' instruments prepared by various international bodies that demonstrate the close links between the cultural and...

Environmental protection and the protection of human rights represent two fundamental policy objectives for the international legal system. These objectives are serviced by the international environmental regime, mostly comprising multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), with the...

From the 1960s onwards, the global community became much more aware of the phenomena of air and water pollution and land contamination. Moreover, over the last three decades, the issues of climate change, loss of biodiversity, desertification, drought, and land degradation have become much more...

This commentary sketches a research agenda for mapping the normative networks through which debates concerning transboundary water resources in the Mekong River Basin are being conducted, particularly those networks’ transnational legal dimensions. It argues that traditional ‘hard versus...

In the past three decades, the realm of environmental law in many Western countries, and internationally, has grown from a small baby crying for attention to a full-fledged, articulate adult, participating in a wide variety of international, regional, and national fora concerning the protection...