Subjects:

Environmental Law

Contents:

Michael Bowman, The Definition and Valuation of Environmental Harm

Alan Boyle, Reparation for Environmental Damage in International Law - Some Preliminary Problems

Nick Hanley, The Economic Value of Environmental Damage

Michael Bowman, "" Intrinsic Value"" and Biological Diversity

Ruth Mackenzie, Environmental Damage and Living Modified Organisims

Gunther Handl, Indigenous Peoples' Lifestyle as an Environmental Valuation Problem

Mojtaba Kazazi Environmental Damage in the Practice of the UN Compensation Commission

John Woodliffe, Environmental Damage and Environmental Impact Assessment

Louise De La Fayette, The Concept of Environmental Damage in International Liability Regimes

David Ong, The Relationship Between Environmental Damage and Pollution - Marine Oil Pollution Laws in Malasia and Singapore

Tom Schoenbaum, Environmental Damages in Common Law

Peter Wetterstein, Environmental Damage in the Legal Systems of the Nordic Countries and Germany

Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Civil Law Approaches to Environmental Damage - Poland

Donald Reid, Definition and Valuation of Environmental Damage - The Contribution of the Scottish Legal System

Etienne Sinatambou, The Approach of Mixed Legal Systems - The Case of Mauritius

Nukhet Turgut, Definition and Valuation of Environmental Damage in Turkey

Susanna Vieira, Environmental Damage and Valuation in Brazil

Winston Anderson, Caribbean Environmental Damage and Valuation

Edward Brans, The EC White Paper on Environment Liability and the Recovery of Damages for Injury to Public Natural Resources.

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 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. The contributors include experts in national and international law, civil and common law, as well as in the laws of developed and developing states, an economist and a member of the UN Compensation Commission.