Law-making and law enforcement in international environmental law after the 1992 Rio conference

The aim of this study is to show the possibilities for further developing international environmental law after the Rio Conference. The main emphasis will therefore be considerations de lege ferenda, focused equally on questions of law-making and law-enforcement. Within Part 1, the various sources of law, actors and levels of law-making will be introduced, at least in overview (Chap. 1). Following this, the still remaining deficiencies in current international law-making procedures and the main causes for them are identified (Chap. 2). On the basis of the pertinent findings, specific proposals will be developed for remedying the shortcomings discovered in the processes of international environmental law-making. A promising discussion of more effective law-Enforcement mechanisms in international environmental law is only possible with an understanding of the current state of law.