Environmental Engineering Reference
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Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making
and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, 1998,
http://www.unece.org/
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Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, 1991,
http://
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Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 2001,
http://chm.pops.
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Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain
Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, 1998,
http://www.
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There are few international courts of justice or arbitration courts into which a state
can issue proceedings against another state. The fundamental rule is that legal set-
tlement requires that both states consent to a legal procedure (see
Chapter 3
,
'Secondary sources of law', p. 80).
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See the judgment at the
Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros
project (Hungary/Slovakia), at the
ICJ's website at
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/fi les/92/7375.pdf
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Case Concerning Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay
(
Argentina v. Uruguay
) Judgment of
20 April 2010, at the ICJ's website at
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/
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Aerial Herbicide Spraying
(
Ecuador v. Columbia
); see the latest developments at the
ICJ's website at
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&code=ec
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This case was decided by the ICJ on 13 July 2009:
Dispute Regarding Navigational and
Related Rights
(
Costa Rica v. Nicaragua
), judgment at
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/
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Certain Activities carried out by Nicaragua in the Border Area
(
Costa Rica v. Nicaragua
),
instituted in 2010, still pending. See the history of the case from the ICJ's home-
page, at
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&k=ec&case=150
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Nicaragua's application can be found from the ICJ's homepage at
http://www.
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The Future We Want
,
http://www.uncsd2012.org/content/documents/
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See further
Chapter 3
.
Further reading
Berkhout, F., Leach, M. and Scoones, I. (eds),
Negotiating Environmental Change: New
Perspectives from Social Science
, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003.
Birnie, P.,
The International Regulation of Whaling: From Conservation of Whaling to the
Conservation of Whales and Whale-Watching
, New York: Oceana, 1985.
Bowman, M. and Redgwell, C. (eds),
International Law and the Conservation of Biological
Diversity
, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1996.
Boyle, A. and Freestone, D. (eds),
International Law and Sustainable Development:
Past Achievements and Future Challenges
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Brown Weiss, E.,
Environmental Change and International Law: New Challenges and
Dimensions
, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1992.
Freestone, D., 'The Road from Rio: International Environmental Law after the Earth
Summit',
Journal of Environmental Law
, 6, 1994, pp. 193-218.
Hurrell, A. and Kingsbury, B.,
The International Politics of the Environment: Actors, Inter-
ests and Institutions
, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
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