International law and sustainable development : past achievements and future challenges / edited by Alan Boyle and David Freestone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Alan Boyle and David Freestone -- Sustainable development and unsustainable arguments / Vaughan Lowe -- Sustainable development: treaty, custom, and the cross-fertilization of international law / Philippe Sands -- Codification of international environmental law and the International Law Commission: injurious consequences revisited / Alan Boyle -- Natural resources in the case law of the International Court / Rosalyn Higgins -- The development of the legal regime of high seas fisheries / Dolliver Nelson -- International fisheries law since Rio: the continued rise of the precautionary principle / David Freestone -- Towards long-term sustainable use: some recent developments in the legal regime of fisheries / William Edeson -- Protection of ecosystems under international law: lessons from Antarctica / Catherine Redgwell -- Sustaining small cetaceans: a preliminary evaluation of the Ascobans and Accobams Agreements / Robin Churchill -- The settlement of disputes according to the Straddling Stocks Agreement of 1995 / Tullio Treves -- The Law of the Sea Convention and Agenda 21: marine environmental implications / Alexander Yankov -- The international legal regime for the protection and preservation of the marine environment from land-based sources of pollution / Thomas A. Mensah -- Port states and environmental protection / David Anderson -- Liability for damage to the marine environment / Magnus Goransson -- The challenge of implementation: some concluding notes / David Freestone.