China and international environmental liability; legal remedies for transboundary pollution.

9781847207524

China and international environmental liability; legal remedies for transboundary pollution.

Ed. by Michael Faure & Song Ying.

Edward Elgar Publishing

2008

360 pages

$155.00

Hardcover

New horizons in environmental law

K3585

The 13 chapters presented here by Faure (comparative and international environmental law, U. of Maastricht, the Netherlands) and Ying (international law, Peking U., China) examine both remedies in international law and national-level private law and administrative remedies for transboundary pollution in general and also how these legal rules apply to the specific case of China. They take a comparative approach that integrates discussion of different aspects of legal remedies with comparison of how transboundary environmental problems are dealt with in different legal systems. The contributions are organized into sections that discuss applicable bilateral and multilateral conventions, principles of customary international law, and their application to transboundary environmental pollution; application of national private liability law, whether non-governmental organizations can bring suit under national private law, and transboundary application of criminal law; and case studies of a case involving pollution of a northern Chinese river that flows into Russia and the implications of the case for legislative reforms.

([c]2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)