Implementing environmental law

At the Rio +20 conference attention was focused upon the variable effectiveness of a large range of international instruments.

The IUCN too has recently began to focus upon the effectiveness of legal arrangements for environmental covenants.

Both of these developments are representative of an increasing awareness that legal environmental governance arrangements frequently fail to achieve the desired outcomes, or give rise to perverse and unexpected effects.

This book tackles the problem of implementation of environmental law, drawing upon the expertise of an international cast of contributors and investigations across a range of jurisdictions.