The environment, risk and liability in international law / by Julio Barboza.

• Superior document: Legal aspects of sustainable development, v. 10
• Author: Barboza, Julio.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Legal aspects of sustainable development ; v. 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Risk has always been an element of life. Yet modern technology continues to spread environmentally hazardous activity beyond State boundaries. These hazardous—yet socially useful—activities exist in a grey area between legality and wrongfulness. The Environment, Risk and Liability in International Law explains the important role liability plays in risk management and environmental protection, within the realm of international law. The text explores questions such as the lawfulness of acts which negatively affect the environment, as well as who should be liable for transfrontier damages. From private to public interest, from individual to common concern, activities involving risk are a growing preoccupation of our societies.

Table of Contents

Risk and harm, prevention and liability -- Responsibility and liability in international law -- Conventional law -- Other aspects of international practice -- The development of the subject at the International Law Commission -- The development in the International Law Commission : consideration of the topic since 1997.