Nico Schrijver

Sovereignty Over Natural Resources

Balancing Rights and Duties

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In modern international law, permanent sovereignty over natural resources has come to entail duties as well as rights. This study analyses the evolution of permanent sovereignty from a political claim to a principle of international law, and examines its significance for a number of controversial issues such as people's rights, nationalization, and environmental conservation. Although political discussion has long focused on the rights arising from permanent sovereignty, Dr Schrijver argues that this has been at the expense of the consideration of the corollary obligations it also entails. His book thus identifies new directions sovereignty over natural resources has taken in an increasingly interdependent world and demonstrates its relevance to current debate on foreign-investment regulation, the environment, and sustainable development.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction; Part I. The Birth and Development of the Principle: 2. The formative years; 3. Promoting economic development by the exercise of permanent sovereignty; 4. Permanent sovereignty, environmental protection and sustainable development; Part II. Natural Resource Law in Practice: From Creeping Jurisdiction Towards International Co-operation: 5. Permanent sovereignty over natural resources in territories under occupation or foreign administration; 6. International investment law; 7. The law of the sea; 8. International environmental law; Part III. Balancing Rights and Duties in an Increasingly Interdependent World: 9. Rights and claims; 10. Duties; 11. Natural resource sovereignty as a basis for sustainable development.

This study analyses the evolution of permanent sovereignty from a political claim to a principle of international law, and examines its significance for such controversial issues as people's rights, nationalization, and environmental politics.

An analysis of the evolution of permanent sovereignty from a political claim to a principle of international law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 932g
• ISBN-13: 9780521562690
• ISBN-10: 0521562694
• Artikelnr.: 21526715

Inhaltsangabe

List of boxes, figures and tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of main symbols used in UN documents
Glossary
Table of cases
1. Introduction
Part I. The Birth and Development of the Principle: The UN General Assembly as Midwife: Introductory remarks to part I
2. The formative years (1945¿1962)
3. Promoting economic development by the exercise of permanent sovereignty: the period after 1962
4. Permanent sovereignty, environmental protection and sustainable development
5. Permanent sovereignty over natural resources in territories under occupation or foreign administration
Summary and appraisal of part I
Part II. Natural-Resource Law in Practice: From Creeping National Jurisdiction Towards International Co-operation: Introductory remarks to part II
6. International investment law: from nationalism to pragmatism
7. The law of the sea: extension of control over marine resources
8. International environmental law: sovereignty versus the environment?
Appraisal of part II
Part III. Balancing Rights and Duties in an Increasingly Interdependent World: 9. Rights and claims: seeking evidence of recognition in international law
10. Duties: the other side of the coin
11. Sovereignty over natural resources as a basis for sustainable development
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.