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State Responsibility for Transboundary Air Pollution in International Law systematically analyses the unique nature of problems that transboundary air pollution presents in international law. Although an attempt is made to present transboundary air pollution as a unified field, a distinction is made between pollution from industrial and related sources, and those from nuclear operations, given the very serious nature of risks that nuclear pollution presents. The book extensively considers existing regulatory frameworks as found in treaty regimes and non-binding instruments. The role as well as the shortcomings of traditional international law, especially the application of principles of state responsibility to problems involving multiple actors, and which cannot therefore be easily accommodated within the present bilateral framework of dispute resolution in international law is given extended treatment. The potential role of institutions charged with supervising compliance is also undertaken and the status of emergent principles is critically assessed. The issues examined in this book are of much contemporary relevance and will appeal to those interested in the legal aspects of transboundary air pollution as well as those concerned with the general issues surrounding the application of international law to environmental problems.

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This is a stimulating, well-researched and cogently argued book. * Cambridge Law Journal, 2001 * This is a highly accomplished work for a young scholar. While there is little new to say on such a well-trodden subject, she says it well and her grasp of the law and of its limitations is impressive. For these reasons alone this study is well worth reading. * Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2002 * This work is ambitious in its coverage and sheds considerable light upon the current state of affairs and the difficulties of asserting a claim for damages out of transboundary air pollution. ... This book will be most useful to environmental scholars who are unfamiliar with international law. It would also be of interest to international law scholars who are initially considering international responses to pollution. For those who are more experienced in international environmental law, the book may be valuable in that it collects in one place summaries of most of the relevant treaties and judicial and arbitral opinions. * Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 12, No. 6, June 2002 *

`This work is ambitious in its coverage and sheds considerable light upon the current state of affairs and the difficulties of asserting a claim for damages out of transboundary air pollution. ... This book will be most useful to environmental scholars who are unfamiliar with international law. It would also be of interest to international law scholars who are initially considering international responses to pollution. For those who are more experienced in international environmental law, the book may be valuable in that it collects in one place summaries of most of the relevant treaties and judicial and arbitral opinions.' Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 12, No. 6, June 2002 `This is a highly accomplished work for a young scholar. While there is little new to say on such a well-trodden subject, she says it well and her grasp of the law and of its limitations is impressive. For these reasons alone this study is well worth reading.' Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2002 `This is a stimulating, well-researched and cogently argued book.' Cambridge Law Journal, 2001

This work is ambitious in its coverage and sheds considerable light upon the current state of affairs and the difficulties of asserting a claim for damages out of transboundary air pollution. ... This book will be most useful to environmental scholars who are unfamiliar with international law. It would also be of interest to international law scholars who are initially considering international responses to pollution. For those who are more experienced in international environmental law, the book may be valuable in that it collects in one place summaries of most of the relevant treaties and judicial and arbitral opinions. Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 12, No. 6, June 2002 This is a highly accomplished work for a young scholar. While there is little new to say on such a well-trodden subject, she says it well and her grasp of the law and of its limitations is impressive. For these reasons alone this study is well worth reading. Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2002 This is a stimulating, well-researched and cogently argued book. Cambridge Law Journal, 2001

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Phoebe Okowa is a lecturer in law at the University of Bristol

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