Environmental protection has an inescapable international dimension, as environmental phenomena do not conform to political boundaries in general nor national boundaries in particular. While the earliest conventions addressing environmental problems – primarily wildlife and marine issues – date back more than 100 years, the starting point in systematic international environmental management was the structure of international law as it existed at the time of the United Nations Conference on Man and the Environment, held in 1972 in Stockholm. In this structure, international conventions represented the traditional instrument to shape the legal order.
Over the past twenty years, a large number of international conventions has been adopted to address environmental issues. However, they form only part of the increasingly complex and developed structure of international environmental management, which includes less formal agreements between governments and other public agencies and a wide...
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Von Moltke, K. (1999). Conventions for environmental protection. In: Environmental Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4494-1_63
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