Synopses & Reviews
This study considers the problems of defining and valuing "environmental damage" from the perspective of international and comparative law. The need for a broad and systematic evaluation of this issue is illustrated by the number of topics presently on the international law-making agenda to which it is relevant, including the UN Compensation Commission's decisions on compensation for environmental losses suffered by Kuwait in the Gulf War, nuclear and oil pollution liability regimes, the development of an environmental liability protocol to the Antarctic Treaty and other agreements on bio-safety and genetically modified organisms. It is thus an important element in contemporary efforts to strengthen legal remedies for environmental harm which does not necessarily come within traditional categories of legally protected personal or property rights.
About the Author
Alan Boyle has taught and practised International Law and International Environmental Law for over twenty years. Educated at Oxford, he taught at Queen Mary College, London, and is now Professor of Public International Law at Edinburgh University.
Mr Michael Bowman is a lecturer in law at Nottingham University
Table of Contents
1. The Definition and Valuation of Environmental Harm,
Michael Bowman2. Reparation for Environmental Damage in International Law: Some Preliminary Problems, Alan Boyle
3. The Economic Value of Environmental Damage, Nick Hanley
4. " Intrinsic Value" and Biological Diversity, Michael Bowman
5. Environmental Damage and Living Modified Organisims, Ruth Mackenzie
6. Indigenous Peoples' Lifestyle as an Environmental Valuation Problem, Gunther Handl
7. Environmental Damage in the Practice of the UN Compensation Commission, Mojtaba Kazazi
8. Environmental Damage and Environmental Impact Assessment, John Woodliffe
9. The Concept of Environmental Damage in International Liability Regimes, Louise De La Fayette
10. The Relationship Between Environmental Damage and Pollution: Marine Oil Pollution Laws in Malasia and Singapore, David Ong
11. Environmental Damages in Common Law, Tom Schoenbaum
12. Environmental Damage in the Legal Systems of the Nordic Countries and Germany, Peter Wetterstein
13. Civil Law Approaches to Environmental Damage: Poland, Malgosia Fitzmaurice
14. Definition and Valuation of Environmental Damage: The Contribution of the Scottish Legal System, Donald Reid
15. The Approach of Mixed Legal Systems: The Case of Mauritius, Etienne Sinatambou
16. Definition and Valuation of Environmental Damage in Turkey, Nukhet Turgut
17. Environmental Damage and Valuation in Brazil, Susanna Vieira
18. Caribbean Environmental Damage and Valuation, Winston Anderson
19. The EC White Paper on Environment Liability and the Recovery of Damages for Injury to Public Natural Resources, Edward Brans