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Author: Linda Malone ,
Scott Pasternack
Publisher: Island Press
Imprint: Island Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9781597260664
ISBN 10: 1597260665
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 February 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
.. . grounded in a sophisticated understanding of theory, ... its greatest strength is its practical step-by-step guidance through the various strategies. Defending the Environment is an essential and empowering book. --Durwood Zaelke Director, International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement
Most readers are going to be impressed and perhaps even astonished at the number and variety of opportunities Malone and Pasternack detail...[It has the prospect of] becoming a key text in the formation of a viable and assertive international environmental law movement.... -- Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy This book will guide and empower anyone who feels lost in the maze of international legal remedies for protecting the environment.... [It is] especially helpful for non-lawyers ... --Lamont Hempel, Director, Center for Environmental Studies, University of Redlands This book...shows the emergence and the vitality of international civil society and can greatly contribute to enhancing its possibilities of action. --Alexandre Kiss, President of the European Council on Environmental Law, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration This innovative and much-needed book is nothing less than a comprehensive guide for citizens to become active participants in enforcing international environmental law--a field once the exclusive province of governments, at best. Malone and Pasternack show us how to hold governments to their obligations, and that's exciting. --James Gustave Speth, Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies ... grounded in a sophisticated understanding of theory, ... its greatest strength is its practical step-by-step guidance through the various strategies. Defending the Environment is an essential and empowering book. --Durwood Zaelke, Director, International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement
This innovative and much-needed book is nothing less than a comprehensive guide for citizens to become active participants in enforcing international environmental law a field once the exclusive province of governments, at best. Malone and Pasternack show us how to hold governments to their obligations, and that's exciting. --James Gustave Speth Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
This innovative and much-needed book is nothing less than a comprehensive guide for citizens to become active participants in enforcing international environmental law--a field once the exclusive province of governments, at best. Malone and Pasternack show us how to hold governments to their obligations, and that's exciting. --James Gustave Speth Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Author Information
Linda Malone is the Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law and director of the Human Rights and National Security Law Program at the College of William and Mary School of Law. Scott Pasternack is senior counsel in the environmental law division in the New York City law department.
