This book describes and analyses the functioning of an increasingly important type of international procedures of control, aimed at supervising implementation by States of their commitments under international treaties in the field of environmental protection.
Part I. Non-Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms in Environmental Agreements; Part II. Selected Studies on Practice; Part III. Institutional and Procedural Aspects; Part IV. Non-Compliance Mechanisms and International Law; Part V. Non-Compliance Mechanisms and European Union Law; Part VI.
Professor of International Law at the University of Milan, Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Professor of International Law at the University of Bologna, Chairman of the Legal Board of the Compliance Committee under the 1999 London Protocol on Water and Health to the UNECE 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes. Professor of International Law at the University of Parma. Aggregate Professor of International and European Law at the University of Parma. Researcher in International Law at the University of Milan. Post-doc Researcher in International Law at the University of Milan, legal adviser in international environmental issues to the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea within a project of the University of Siena.