The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law

Prevention is recognized as a cornerstone of international environmental law, but this principle remains abstract and elusive in terms of exactly what is required of states to prevent environmental harm. In this illuminating work, Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli addresses this issue by offering a systematic, comprehensive assessment in which she clarifies the rationale, content, and scope of the prevention principle while also placing it in a wider legal context. The book offers a detailed analysis of treaty law, custom codification works, and case law before culminating in a conceptualization of prevention based on three definitional traits: 1. Its anticipatory rationale; 2. Its due diligence content; and 3. Its wide spatial scope to protect the environment as a whole. This book should be read by anyone seeking to understand the evolving principle of prevention in international environmental law, and how it increasingly shares common ground with reparation in the arena of compliance control.

Author: Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/31/2018
Pages: 426
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.22w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9781108429412

About the Author
Duvic-Paoli, Leslie-Anne: - Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli is Lecturer at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and a Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance. Before joining King's College London, she was Philomathia Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. Duvic-Paoli is a public international lawyer, who researches and teaches in the fields of international environmental law and climate and energy law. She holds Master's degrees from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.