Omer Aloni (Israel Bar-Ilan University)

The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first history of the environmental regime of the League of Nations during the interwar period. Omer Aloni uncovers the hidden interests, perceptions, motivations and agendas previously overlooked by both environmental historians and legal scholars.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9781108838191
• ISBN-10: 1108838197
• Artikelnr.: 60748062

Autorenporträt

Omer Aloni is Research and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bar-Ilan, Ramat-Gan, Israel. He received his Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University (Faculty of Law). He holds research affiliations with the University of Potsdam, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (LMU Munich) and the Max Planck Institute. He was awarded the Tallinn Prize by the European Society for Environmental History for the best research in 2018 and 2019.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Fighting pollution made by humankind: the League of Nations and the
endeavors of the convention against the pollution of the sea by oil; 2. The
League of Nations and the whaling dilemma; 3. Sanitation, spreading
diseases, and the environmental concerns: the League of Nations' campaign
for rural hygiene; 4. Raw materials, the timber crisis, and fears of
deforestation during the interwar period; 5. Evaluating the environmental
regime of the League of Nations: comparative discussion; 6. Conclusion.