Research Guide to International Law on the Internet
International Environmental Law
Treaties and Documents
WWW Sites
Treaties and Documents
- Antarctic treaties
- Basel Convention
on the Trasboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes
- Decisions
Adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention
- Biological Diversity
Convention
- Climate Change Convention
- Convention
to Combat Desertification
- Convention
on the Conservation of Migratory Species
- Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species
- Flora
and Fauna -- Biodiversity (Multilateral Treaties on)
- Framework
Convention on Climate Change
- Montreal
Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
- Vienna Convention
for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
- Rio Declaration
- Stockholm
Declaration (CIESIN)
- United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Agenda 21
- North American
Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
- EnviroText
(Richards) -
A searchable
database about over 12000 U.S. treaties and agreements with other countries.
- Environmental
Treaties and Resource Indicators Project (CIESIN)- This site contains
a searchable collection of international environmental agreements.You will
find full texts, treaty status information and summaries.
- International
Environmental Agreements (ERIN)
- Multilateral
Environmental Treaties (Tufts University)
- Multilateral Environmental
Treaties (Greenpeace)
- Pace
Virtual Environmental Law Library - A very complete collection of international
environmental agreements on the web, including treaty status information
and summaries.
- Substantial
environmental treaty collection (UNEP)
- Treaty Secretariats - This UNEP site
contains links to the Web pages of these Treaty Secretariats: Basel
Convention, Convention on
Biological Diversity, Convention
on Climate Change, Convention
to Combat Desertification, Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species, Convention
on the Conservation of Migratory Species, Ozone
(Montreal Protocol and Vienna Convention).
WWW Sites
Warning: To get information on environmental law, see also
the following sections of this Guide: European
Union, International Organizations, United
Nations.
- Alex
Kazan's International Law Page (U. of California at Davis) - This
Web page provides comments and various resources about the Convention on
Biodiversity.
- Artic
and Antarctid (Francis Fauburn) - A wide range of links.
- ASIL
International Environmental Law Interest Group - A mine of information.
For example, you will find a wide list of general resources, as well as
a huge collection of data organized by subject.
- Biodiversity & Biological
Collections Gopher (Harvard)
- Cambridge
Environmental Web Page - Information on Environmental Activism.
- Cameron May - An interesting
web page from a European Environmental Law Publisher.
- Cases involving
International Environmental Law (Peter Sand) - This site provides information
about several national and international cases.
- Climate
Action Network Newsletter - News from NGOs interested in the subject
of climate change.
- Climate
Change Home Page (Envirolink) - A must for everyone who is interested
in.
- Commission for Environmental Cooperation
- This site contains legal information relative to the environmental aspects
of NAFTA.
- Consortium for International Earth
Science Information Network - An excellent reference site. Here you
will find an enormous searchable archive on a changing world.
- CSD United
Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
- Econet (IGC) - A
well organized and updated site.
- ENCOP Environment and Conflicts
Project - Information and documents from the Center for Security Studies
and Conflict Research.
- Envirolink Home Page - Aims
to be "the largest online environmental information resource on the
planet". Here you will find EnviroLink
Library (a very complete database organized by subject), EnviroNews,
OneWorld
Magazine, as well as Search
EnviroLink. Highly recommended.
- Environment
(OneWorld) - An extremely large collection of documents, links and other
resources. At present, major focus is on Climate change, Energy, Conserving
the environment, Water, Environmental disasters, Urban environment.
- Environment
(Pacific Talk Virtual Library) - An index of links.
- Environment
and Development Hotlist (Brown University) - A comprehensive collection
of links.
- Environment Related
Information Gopher (UNDP)
- Environmental and
legal resources on the net (Echonyc) - Here you can find also links
to FTP Sites and Usenet Groups
- Environmental
Gopher List - A very comprehensive archive to be viewed.
- Environmental
Law (U. of Indiana) - At present, this is one of the best sites for
links to legal environmental documents.
- Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
(EcoNet) - This site hosts a quarterly newsletter
- Environmental Law Around the
World (EcoNet) - This site contains a very useful searchable database
organized by country/continent. It is one of the best starting points.
- West Coast Environmental
Law (Vancouver) - Newsletters and some information.
- Environmental Law
Materials (Business & the Law) - Links and some articles.
- Environmental linkages
- This excellent site is provided by the International Institute for Sustainable
Development. It is designed to be an electronic clearing-house for information
on past and upcoming international meetings related to environment and
development. Here you can find a very wide range of resources. For example,
a very complete section on the Convention to Combat Desertification and
Drought.
- Environmental
Organizations (Envirolink) - A list of environmental organizations
on the Internet
- Environmental Sites
on the Internet (Larsgöran Standberg) - An excellent reference
site (updated once a week!).On the Index Page "you will find an alphabetic
subject index to a huge collection of environmental subjects from different
homepages and gopher menues on the Net".
- Environmental
Issues and Human Rights (Martin Hogan)- News updated for 1966 and links.
- Environmental
Studies Section (International Studies Association) - Papers, bibliography,
newsletters and more.
- Environment Defense Fund - Recent
documents and a newsletter.
- ERIN The Environmental
Resources Information Network - This excellent site contains a pletora
of links under the headings Air,
Land & Water,
Humans and the
Environment, Life,
Sea and State
of the Environment. There is also a search
function. The Humans and Environment category includes Environmental
Agreements and Legislation (where focus is on the Australian one).
Extremely useful to get information on line is also the its ERIN
Navigator.
- European Environment Agency -
Coming events, databases,
documents, links.
- European
Environmental Law (U. of Vienna) - At present, this site is still under
construction and does not offer very much. But it is to be checked because
it should be improved quickly.
- Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Information
- Supplies updated information on this case.
- Friends
of the Earth -- International Network - Information on various campaigns.
- Greenpeace International -
Information on biodiversity, nuclear threats and more...
- Harmonization of Environmental
Measurement (UNEP) - Information on environmental monitoring.
- Institute for Agriculture and
Trade Policy (IATP) - Major focus is on NAFTA-related issues.
- International
Environmental Law on the Internet (Yale Law School) - A good reference
site.
- International Institute of Sustainable
Development - This site contains an enormous searchable archive including
many kinds of resources. It is to be deemed as a starting point for this
subject.
- International Rivers Network - Focus
is on environmental protection.
- ISA
Environmental Studies - This site contains Bibliography, Articles,
Newsletters and more.
- Mitch's Environmental
Action Page - News and links.
- Oceans
Sourcebase: Marine affairs and sustainable development - A IISD guide
to selected national/regional/international organizations working in the
field.
- Planet
Earth Home Page
- Rainforest Action Network - Information
on campaigns.
- Selected
Book Reviews
(through Peter Sand's
Transnational Environmental Law Page)
- The Earth Times -
An international newspaper on environment and sustainable development.
- The Ecology Channel - This site
provides environmental news.
- The
World development Movement
- TRADE:
A Guide to Trade and Sustainable Development Issues - This IISD site
contains a mine of information on the subject.
- Trade and Environment
Cases (TED Database) - This site contains case studies involving trade
and environment issues (included the Trail
Smelter Case and the Tuna Dolphin
Case I and
Case II).
- Transnational
Environmental Law: Selected Essays (Peter Sand)
- UN Department of Policy Coordination
and Sustainable Development
- UNEP Geneva Executive center- In addition
to links to various treaty secretarias, here you can find the pointers
to Financial Services Sector
and the Environment (about the involvement of insurance and banking
sectors), Prior Informed Consent
(about the risks of using hazardous chemicals), Trade
and the Environment (Monograph series and other documents), United
Nations System-Wide Earthwatch (about programmes to collect environmental
information), Global Resource Information Database (GRID), Geneva
and Arendal.
- UNEP International Environment Technology
Centre (IETC)
- UNEP United Nations
Environment Programme Global Resource Information Database
- UNEP United
Nations Environment Programme Gopher Server
- U.S. Environmental
Law
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- Focus is on biodiversity issues. This site also includes published and
unpublished works, and some international legal information.
- World Wildlife Fund
- WWW Virtual Library: Biodiversity
& Ecology
- WWW Virtual
Library: Earth Sciences
- WWW
Virtual Library: Energy
- WWW
Virtual Library: Environment - A very wide collection of resources
organized by topic. To be used also as a starting point.
- WWW Virtual
Library:Environmental
Law - A reference site you cannot miss. Here you will find a searchable
alphabetic list of interesting sites on environmental law.
- WWW Virtual Library:
Forestry
- WWW Virtual
Library: Landscape Architecture
- WWW Virtual
Library: Oceanography
- WWW Virtual Library:
Sustainable Development
- Yahoo's Environment
and Nature Page
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