Evolution of International Environmental Regimes

The Case of Climate Change

Simone Schiele

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781107044159
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139990523
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Environmental Law
• Index: Law

Drawing specifically on the international climate regime, Simone Schiele examines international environmental regimes from a legal perspective and analyses a core feature of international regimes - their ability to evolve over time. In particular, she develops a theoretical framework based on general international law which allows for a thorough examination of the understanding of international law and the options for law-creation in international environmental regimes. The analysis therefore provides both a coherent understanding of the international climate regime and a starting point for further research in other regimes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Epigraph
• Table of contents
• Selected acronyms and abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introductory observations and approach
• 2 International environmental regimes and their treaties
• 3 International climate regime
• 4 Effectiveness of international environmental regimes and 'creative legal engineering'
• 5 International regimes as normative systems
• 6 Methodology for determining the norms, sources and underlying theories of international law in the international climate regime
• 7 Sources of legal norms in the international climate regime and the negotiations leading up to and at the Copenhagen conference
• 8 Sources of legal norms in the international climate regime and Compliance Committee methods of interpretation
• 9 Increasing robustness of the international climate regime as a system of norms
• 10 Conclusions
• References
• Index