Overview
- Comprehensive overview of the international legal regime governing different aspects of trans boundary hazardous waste movements
- Examines the international responsibility of States as well as civil liability of private parties involved in waste movements
- Outlines the relationship between civil liability regimes in the maritime and transportation sector
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs (HAMBURG, volume 29)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The term “hazardous wastes” covers a wide range of disused products and production wastes generated not only in industrial sectors, but also in all areas of everyday life. Hazardous wastes are to a large extent shipped by sea to third countries for recycling or disposal. While the procedural requirements for such movements are laid out in the 1989 Basel Convention, explicit rules of responsibility and liability for resulting damages are neither provided by the Basel Convention nor by other international conventions. The Liability Protocol to the Basel Convention of 1999 has not yet entered into force. This book examines the existing rules of responsibility and liability applying to States and private persons and outlines the conditions under which liability may be incurred. Subsequently, the advantages and shortcomings of the 1999 Liability Protocol are analyzed. Although this Protocol faces substantial political headwind, from a legal perspective it includes principally useful andreasonable approaches and should therefore be ratified.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Responsibility and Liability in the Context of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes by Sea
Book Subtitle: Existing Rules and the 1999 Liability Protocol to the Basel Convention
Authors: Jan Albers
Series Title: Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43349-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-43348-5Published: 09 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-43349-2Published: 25 September 2014
Series ISSN: 1614-2462
Series E-ISSN: 1867-9587
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 370
Topics: Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space, International Environmental Law, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Waste Management/Waste Technology, International Economic Law, Trade Law