Publication

1996 - Kluwer Law International, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

55,750 words, Guess

Page Count

223 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing9652054
  • Goodreads5834787

Classifications

  • DDC341.7/62
  • LCCK3488.A41992 M38 1996

Description

This book describes how a rather vague proposal put to the UN Environment Programme in 1987 developed into the 1992 Biodiversity Convention. The author gives a first hand and personal account of heading the UK delegation during the negotiations and subsequently, as a consultant, of taking part in the first tentative steps towards its implementation. The convention has generated a number of academic treatises and legal analyses: this book offers a unique insight into how it was negotiated, arguments and counterarguments, misunderstandings, compromises, rhetoric, camaraderie and frustration. The "story" takes the reader behind the scenes at international gatherings in London, Nairobi, Geneva, Montreal, New York, Madrid, Nassau and the Rio de Janeiro "Earth Summit". . It should be of interest to environmental policy makers, conservation groups, lawyers, students of environmental law and of the wider United Nations negotiating process.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryLaw and legislationBiodiversity conservationBiological diversity conservationConvention on Biological DiversityConvention on Biological Diversity (1992) -- History.Biological diversity conservation -- Law and legislation -- History.

Series Statement

  • International environmental law and policy series

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