The international law of shared natural resources : a case study of an international wildlife range between Alaska and the Yukon ...
Proposals have been made for the creation of an international wildlife range between Alaska and Yukon Territory, and for an international convention between Canada and the United States to protect the Porcupine Caribou herd. It is suggested that these developments do not take place in a legal void....
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0077672 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0077672 |
| Summary: | Proposals have been made for the creation of an international wildlife range between Alaska and Yukon Territory, and for an international convention between Canada and the United States to protect the Porcupine Caribou herd. It is suggested that these developments do not take place in a legal void. General ideas of cooperation derived from theories of interdependence, liberal jurists and advocates of world government are insufficient to oblige neighbouring states to undertake specific action. This thesis, therefore, concentrates on the procedural obligations upon neighbouring states to cooperate in the exploitation and conservation of shared natural resources. It is suggested that general principles may be derived from several natural resource regimes international river basins, transfrontier pollution and straddling deposits of hydrocarbons. These specific regimes are supported by the work of the United Nations Environment Programme on natural resources shared by two or more states, and trends discernible ... |
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