THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT (LAW 2 59S) y r a r b i l w a Volume 1 l n. s!<.i a l, ^, r j, B Professor Craig Scott Winter/Spring 1991 Faculty of Law, University of Toronto This volume is not to be considered as pusblished. It is solely for the educational use of students of the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and of students at other universities to whom these materials may be distributed. Some materials in this volume are retained from the 1990 materials for this course which were compiled with the research assistance of Julia McNally. 1 < H i*, ,7r ( ' ■ ?■ ■ LAW LIBRARY JAN 81991 nawERStTV of Toacwra ft . faculty of law library UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT (LAW 259S) Volume l Professor Craig Scott Winter/Spring 1991 Faculty of Law, University of Toronto This volume is not to be considered as pusblished. It is solely for the educational use of students of the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and of students at other universities to whom these materials may be distributed. Some materials in this volume are retained from the 1990 materials for this course which were compiled with the research assistance of Julia McNally. 1 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from University of Toronto https://archive.org/details/globalenvironmen01scot THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT Table of Contents: Volume 1 (Seminars 1-5) 1. REVIEW MATERIALS ON STATE RESPONSIBILITY AND INTERNATIONAL LIABILITY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (no class) Veit Koester, "From Stockholm to Brundtland", (1990) 20 EPL 14 1 Brian Smith, ch. 5 , "Harm Within Another State's Territory" and ch.8, "Standard of Performance", State Responsibility and the Marine Environment (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989) 7 Alexandre Kiss, "The International Protection of the Environment" in R. St. John Macdonald and D. Johnston, eds., The Structure and Process of International Law (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983) 20 Experts Group of the World Commission on Environmental and Development, "Legal Principles for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development", Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development: Legal Principles and Recommendations (Norwell, MA: Graham and Trotman, 1987) [Commentary on Principles 10, 11, 12, 16 and 17 included] 24 Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 1972 [the Stockholm Declaration] in Experts Group of the WCED, supra. @ 147 41 United Nations General Assembly Resolution on the World Charter for Nature, 1982, in Experts Group of the WCED, supra. @ 155 46 2. PERSPECTIVES I: PHILOSOPHIES OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND 'SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT' Ecological Philosophies Michael Colby, Environmental Management in Development: The Evolution of Paradigms. World Bank Discussion Paper # 80 (The World Bank: Washington, e.C., 1990) 49 Jacgueline Pearce, "Approaches in Environmentalism and Feminism" (1989) 1(1) Undercurrents 3 89 Vandana Shiva, "The women of Chipko" in Shiva, Staving Alive: Women. Ecology and Development 95 Ramachandra Guha, "Radical American Environmentalism Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique", (1989) 11 Environmental Ethics 71 99 Aboriginal Perspectives Calvin Martin, "The European Impact on the Culture of a Northeastern Algonquin Tribe: An Ecological Interpretation" in Robin Fisher and Kenneth Coates, ed., Out of the Background: Readings on Canadian Native History (Toronto: Copp Clark, 1988) 66 106 Kirkpatrick Sale, The Conguest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1990) @ 360 ff. 117 Annie Booth and Harvey Jacobs, "Ties That Bind: Native American Beliefs as a Foundation for Environmental Consciousness" (1990) 12 Environmental Ethics 25 121 Planetary Thinking Anthony D'Amato, "Do We Owe a Duty to Future Generations to Preserve the Global Environment?" (1990) 84 AJIL 190 131 Edith Brown Weiss, "Our Rights and Obligations to Future Generations for the Environment" (1990) 84 AJIL 198 135 Lothar Gundling, "Our Responsibility to Future Generations" (1990) 84 AJIL 207 139 Experts Group of the WCED, supra. Commentary on Article 2 143 Digby MacLaren, "The Health of the Planet" (1988) 9/10 Policy Options 3 145 Sustainable Development William Clark, "Managing Planet Earth" (Sept. 1989) 261(3) Scientific American 46 148 James MacNeill, "Strategies for Sustainable Development" (Sept. 1989) 261(3) Scientific American 154 156 Ruckelhaus, "Towards a Sustainable World" (Sept. 1989) 261(3) Scientific American 166 165 John Robinson, George Francis, Russell Legge and Sally Lerner, "Defining a Sustainable Society: Values, Principles and Definitions" (1990) 17(2) Alternatives 36 172 R. B. Norgaard, "Sustainable Development: A Co-evolutionary View" (1988) 20 Futures Research Quarterly 606 182 Monte, " A Critique of the WCED: Misplaced Priority for Preventing Environmental Degradation or Poverty?' in Schneider, ed., Deforestation and Development in Canada and the Tropics: The Impact on People and the Environment (Sydney, N.S.; Centre for International Studies, 1989) 228 190 Michael Clow, "Sustainable Development Won't Be Enough" (November 1990) Policy Options 6 191 Julia Gardner and Mark Roseland, "Thinking Globally and Acting Locally" (1989) 16(3) Alternatives 26, in two parts: Part I: "Thinking Globally: The Role of Social Equity in Sustainable Development" 194 3. PERSPECTIVES II; THE 'TRAGEDY' OF THE COMMONS, LOCAL AND GLOBAL: THE ANTARCTICA EXPERIENCE Sustainable Development continued: Acting Locally Julia Gardner and Mark Roseland, "Thinking Globally and Acting Locally" (1989) 16(3) Alternatives 26, in two parts: Part II: "Acting Locally: Community Strategies for Equitable Sustainable Development" 198 Wendell Berry, "The Futility of Global Thinking", (Sept. 1989) Harper's Magazine 210 Redclift, "Defining an alternative: indigenous environmental management" in Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions (London: Methuen, 1987) 150-159 212 The Tragedy of Local Commons Fikret Berkes and David Feeny, "Paradigms Lost: Changing Views on the Use of Common Property Resources" (1990) 17(2) Alternatives 48 217 Daniel Bromley and Michael Cernea, The Management of Common Property Natural Resources: Some Conceptual and Operational Fallacies. World Bank Discussion Paper # 57 (The World Bank: Washington, D.C., 1989) [first half, pp.1-25]. [Note that the second half, pp. 27-68 (incl. footnotes), will appear in the class on the role of the World Bank and other lending agencies.] 224 The Tragedy of Global Commons Per Magnus Wijkman, "Managing the Global Commons" (1982) International Organization 511 250 A Case Study of a Global Commons: Antarctica Stephen Krasner, "Antarctica" in Structural Conflict: The Third World Against Global Liberalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985) 250-264 264 Joyner, "Review Article: The Evolving Antarctic Legal Regime" (1989) 83 AJIL 605 272 Joyner, "The Antarctic Minerals Negotiating Process" (1987) 81 AJIL 888 280 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities, (1988) 27 ILM 859 (excerpts) 284 Cook Waller, "Death of a Treaty: The Decline and Fall of the Antarctic Minerals Convention" (1989) 22 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 631 293 Lee Kimball, Southern Exposure: Deciding Antarctica's Future (Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, 1990) 299 4. PERSPECTIVES III: CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION - THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF REGIMES Oran Young, "The politics of international regime formation: managing natural resources and the environment" (1989) 43 International Organization 349 328 Peter Haas, "Do regimes matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution control" (1989) 43 International Organization 377 342 G. Majone, "International institutions and the environment" in W.C. Clark and R.E. Munn, eds., Sustainable Development of the Biosphere (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1986) 351-360 355 R.W. Hahn and K.R. Richards, "The Internationalization of Environmental Regulation" (1989) 30 HILJ 421 364 P Ponor'o Pme> r*rr i nrr fronHc in infornafinnal 373 Douglas Johnston, "Marine pollution agreements: successes and problems" in Carroll, supra 381 5. PERSPECTIVES IV: CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION - THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (UNCED). BRAZIL 1992 The Project Undertaken James Speth, "Toward a North-South Compact for the Environment", (June 1990) Environment 16 385 David Runnalls, "The Grand Bargain", (Autumn 1989) 4(3) Peace and Security 6 393 Frameworks for What Can Be Achieved In UNCED 1992 Peter Sand, Lessons Learned in Global Environmental Governance (Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, 1990) 395 Experts Group of the World Commission on Environmental and Development, "Proposals for Strengthening the Legal and Institutional Framework", Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development: Legal Principles and Recommendations (Norwell, MA: Graham and Trotman, 1987) 430 Thomas N. Gladwin, Judith Ugelow and Ingo Walter, "Approaches to international negotiations on the chlorofluorocarbon problem" in Horst Siebert, ed., Global Environmental Resources (Frankfurt: Verlag Peter Lang, 1982) 31-32, reproduced in UN Centre on Transnational Corporations, Environmental Aspects of the Activities of TNCs: A Survey (New York: United Nations, 1985) 434 Brown et al, "Crossing Perceptual Thresholds" in ch. 1, "A World At Risk" in Lester Brown et al.. State of the World 1989: A World Watch Institute Report on Progress Towards a Sustainable Society (New York: W.W. Norton, 1989) 436 Richard Falk, "The Capacity of International Law to Respond to the Environmental Challenge" in Canadian Council on International Law, Preserving the Global Environment. Proc. of the 1989 Conference of the CCIL (Ottawa: CCIL, 1989) 35-51 438 Developments With Respect to UNCED 1992 to Date "1992 UNCED: Background" (1990) 20/1-2 EPL 4-7 446 UNGA Res. 44/228 convening UNCED Brazil 1992 (22 Dec. 1989), (1990) 20/1-2 EPL 39 450 "UNCED '92: Preparatory Process" (1990) 20/3 EPL 72-3 453 "UNCED '92: Preparatory Commission" (1990) 20/3 EPL 96-98 455 Bergen Conference, "Ministerial Declaration on Sustainable Development and Joint NGO-State Agenda for Action", (1990) 20/3 EPL 100 458 "UN/GA: Special Session on Economic Cooperation and Development11 (1990) 20/3 EPL 74 466 UN General Assembly Declaration on Development Cooperation (1990) 20/3 EPL 98 468 "UNEP: Preparations for 1992" (1990) 20/4-5 EPL 124 470 "Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference on Environment and Development" (1990) 20/4-5 EPL 127 473 "UNCED: Decisions of the Preparatory Committee" (1990) 20/4-5 EPL 161-5 480