Pollution of International Watercourses: A Search for Substantive Rules and Principles of Law |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
SUBSTANTIVE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF RIPARIAN | 4 |
CERTAIN PARALLEL INTERNATIONAL LEGAL | 23 |
caused by the transfrontier environmental inter | 42 |
X | 45 |
The domestic approach compared with the inter | 50 |
proaches in dealing with transfrontier environ | 64 |
Activities of a legislative character concerning | 70 |
principles of general international law appli | 360 |
caused | 373 |
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL LAW POSS | 387 |
The requirement of being generally recognized | 395 |
the states with regard to the pollution of interstate | 412 |
Interferences between neighbouring landowners | 441 |
Conclusions | 486 |
or groundwater | 492 |
TREATY LAW | 89 |
Concluding remarks 97 46 | 97 |
Scope and stringency of the provisions | 109 |
Conclusions | 122 |
TABLE OF INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS CON | 124 |
GENERAL INTERNATIONAL LAW | 149 |
General principles of law recognized by civilized | 160 |
Europe | 166 |
clusion of the 1976 Chlorides and Chemical Pol | 181 |
dam against the Mines Domaniales de Potasse | 196 |
America | 260 |
Africa | 296 |
Asia | 302 |
State conduct and opinion regarding nuclear | 319 |
International collective statements | 327 |
Conclusions | 342 |
quired | 348 |
INTERNATIONAL CASE LAW | 503 |
Transfrontier environmental interferences | 517 |
CONCLUSIONS | 528 |
PRINCIPLES OR CONCEPTS ADVANCED IN ACA | 556 |
The principle of absolute or restricted territorial | 562 |
The principle of nondiscrimination | 569 |
The principles of State responsibility | 579 |
ASPECTS OF STATE RESPONSIBILITY AND STRICT | 587 |
Consequences of State responsibility | 598 |
Some special aspects | 614 |
international | 626 |
stantial extraterritorial harm | 634 |
Concluding remarks | 659 |
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Common terms and phrases
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