ABSTRACT

Environmental problems may be local, regional or global. The effects of global warming, ozone depletion, and contamination of the high seas do not recognise territorial or jurisdictional boundaries. For this reason global, regional and local responses are often necessary to establish standards, to co-ordinate actions and to cajole States, industry and us as individuals to work to improve and protect our environment. One consequence is that lawyers handling environmental issues have to work with legal materials which span international, regional and domestic systems of law. This sourcebook, therefore, presents the principal sources of environmental law to be found in international law, European law and UK domestic law.