Question: Outline and evaluate the role and effectiveness on international law protecting the environment.
Answer: The term ‘environment’ is extremely difficult to define, especially in a legal sense. This may be due to the difficulty both to identify and to restrict the scope of such an ambiguous term: “it is a term that everyone understands and no one is able to define” . The European Commission, however, in developing an ‘Action Program on the Environment’ offered a definition of ‘environment’ as “the combination of elements whose complex inter-relationships make the settings, the surroundings and the conditions of life of the individual and of society as they are and as they are felt.”...(short extract)
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- Subject: Law
- Course: Enviromental Law
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1932
- Date submitted: February 05, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 623
