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Book Review 603 Book Review Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development, 1999/ 2000, edited by Helge Ole Bergesen, Georg Parmann and Øystein B. Thommessen (Earthscan Publications, London, 1999) 374 pp.; ISBN 1-85383- 630-3 ; ISSN 1500-6980; £45.00 This is an old friend in different clothing. The eighth annual volume of what used to be called The Green Globe Yearbook, published by Oxford University Press, now has a new name and a new publisher. However, the volume is still put together by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo with the same editorial team. The volume also has the same format: six shortish articles on current issues and key themes in the field of environment and development, followed by systematic profiles of all the major global and significant regional conventions on environment and development. Each profile contains a summary of objectives, scope, status, affiliated instruments, secretariats and finance details as well as key obligations, monitoring and implementation arrangements, decision-making bodies and contact details. The section finishes with what must be one of the Yearbook's most used and useful features: 16 pages of tables of the status of national participation in each of these agreements. The Yearbook then has profiles of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2000 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0927-3522
eISSN
1571-8085
DOI
10.1163/157180800X00280
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603 Book Review Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development, 1999/ 2000, edited by Helge Ole Bergesen, Georg Parmann and Øystein B. Thommessen (Earthscan Publications, London, 1999) 374 pp.; ISBN 1-85383- 630-3 ; ISSN 1500-6980; £45.00 This is an old friend in different clothing. The eighth annual volume of what used to be called The Green Globe Yearbook, published by Oxford University Press, now has a new name and a new publisher. However, the volume is still put together by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo with the same editorial team. The volume also has the same format: six shortish articles on current issues and key themes in the field of environment and development, followed by systematic profiles of all the major global and significant regional conventions on environment and development. Each profile contains a summary of objectives, scope, status, affiliated instruments, secretariats and finance details as well as key obligations, monitoring and implementation arrangements, decision-making bodies and contact details. The section finishes with what must be one of the Yearbook's most used and useful features: 16 pages of tables of the status of national participation in each of these agreements. The Yearbook then has profiles of

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The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2000

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