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100 1 _aAloni, Omer.
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245 1 4 _aThe League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2021.
264 4 _c©2021.
300 _a1 online resource (406 pages)
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490 1 _aCambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Ser.
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505 0 _aCover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Fighting Pollution Made by Humankind: The League of Nations and the Endeavors of the Convention against the Pollution of the Sea by Oil -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Historical Background of Polluted Seas and Human Concerns -- 1.2.1 Polluted Seas As a Domestic Problem: Concerns of Oil Pollution in Britain and the United States -- 1.2.2 The Transnational Phase: The 1923 Paris Conference, and the First International Conference on the Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Washington, 1926) -- 1.3 The League of Nations and the Antipollution Campaign -- 1.3.1 The Save-the-Seabirds Campaign Reaches the League: A Special Committee of Experts Is Formed -- 1.3.2 The Committee of Experts Discusses the Pollution Problem and Prepares a Special Questionnaire with a Draft Convention -- 1.3.3 The League Distributes the Questionnaire with the Draft Convention -- States and Organizations Reply -- 1.3.4 Finalizing the Antipollution Convention, and the Bitter End -- 1.4 Conclusion: Pollution, Seas, and the post-1945 Period - from Geneva to Stockholm and Back Again -- 2 The League of Nations and the Whaling Dilemma -- 2.1 Sea of Whales -- 2.1.1 Introduction -- 2.1.2 General Timeline and Outline -- 2.2 Whales and Whaling: The Historical Background of Whaling in a Nutshell -- 2.3 Interwar Diplomacy and the Rise of International Whaling Law -- 2.3.1 Preparing to Launch a Special Questionnaire -- 2.3.2 Replying to the League: States and Different Organizations' Responses to the Special Questionnaire -- 2.3.3 The Codification Committee Summarizes the Replies with a Sense of Urgency -- 2.3.4 Toward the April 1927 Experts Meeting in Paris, and the British Interdepartmental Conference on the Question of International Control of Whaling (October 1927).
505 8 _a2.3.5 The Early 1930s and the First International Whaling Convention -- 2.3.6 Toward the 1937 Convention: The Media Picks a Side -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3 Sanitation, Spreading Diseases, and Environmental Concerns: The League of Nations' Campaign for Rural Hygiene -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Background and Historical Survey: A Brief Introduction to the Historiography of Sanitary Efforts and Environmental Concerns -- 3.3 The League of Nations, Rural Hygiene, Sanitation, and Environmental Threats -- 3.3.1 Early Steps and Preparations: The Interchange Program (1928), and the Budapest Conference (October 1930) -- 3.3.2 The 1931 European Conference on Rural Hygiene -- 3.3.3 Following Up the 1931 Conference and Preparing for the Second Intergovernmental Conference on Rural Hygiene -- 3.3.4 The Intergovernmental Conference of Far Eastern Countries on Rural Hygiene, Bandoeng (Java), August 1937 -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Raw Materials, the Timber Crisis, and Fears of Deforestation during the Interwar Period -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Timber in the Interwar Period -- 4.2.1 A Short Introduction to the Special Interest of the League in Raw Materials -- 4.2.2 Striving for a Global Timber Regime: International Bodies Apply Institutional Energy to International Timber Production and Trade -- 4.2.3 The Timber Wars of the 1930s -- 4.3 The Timber Challenge and Concerns of Deforestation: The League Harmonizes Economic, Industrial, and Environmental Perspectives -- 4.3.1 Regulation of the Timber Trade to Support the Industry -- 4.3.2 Environmental Concerns Added to the General Economic-Industrial Framework -- 4.4 Conclusions: A (Comparative) Glimpse of the post-1945 Period, Forest Conservation, and International Law -- 5 Evaluating the Environmental Regime of the League of Nations: Comparative Discussion.
505 8 _a5.1 Environmental Challenges and Problems As an Accelerator for Collective International Action -- 5.2 Legal and Procedural Ways in Which the League Handled the Environmental Questions As Evolving Complex Dilemmas -- 5.3 The League Practiced Different Modes of International Law through Its Environmental Regime -- 5.4 Who Gets to Play the Game of International Law: New States and NGOs -- 5.5 The Central Role of Scientific Expertise -- 5.6 Devoted Individual Pioneers -- 5.7 The League Did Not Suddenly Become an Environmental Shrine -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aThis first study of the environmental challenges handled by the League of Nations pioneers new perspectives on legal and environmental history.
650 4 _aInternationales Umweltrecht
650 4 _aVölkerbund
650 4 _aUmweltschutz
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