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The United Nations’ Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm 5–16 June 1972. Some commentators say it was ‘the most important conference ever held’.1 Never before had so many world leaders come together to discuss ‘the future of our species and the habitat in which it lives’.2 Yet, the Conference took place without the participation of the whole Eastern bloc, which had refused to take part after a quibble about the non-recognition of the German Democratic Republic, a problem which 15 years later appears largely historic. The importance of the Conference was, however, greatly reduced by the absence of socialist countries.
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P. Scott in his Foreword to P. Stone, Did We Save the Earth at Stockholm? (London: Earth Island, 1973).
On protection of forests for such purposes see J.E. King, Science and Rationalisation in the Government of Louis XIV (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1949) p. 84.
Cf. L.K. Caldwell, International Environmental Policy: Emergence and Dimensions (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1984), p. 186.
Council of Europe, Man in a European Society (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1966).
On the IBP, see, for example, E.B. Worthington (ed.), The Evolution of IBP: The International Biological Programme (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975). Another field of study was set to be human adaptibility to changing conditions.
T.T. Gati, The United States, The United Nations and the Management of Global Change (New York, New York University Press; 1983) pp. 316–7 and below.
British Institute of International and Comparative Law (ed.), Selected Documents on International Environmental Law (London and New York: Dobbs Ferry, 1975) p. 6.
T.T. Gati, The United States, The United Nations and the Management of Global Change (New York: New York University Press, 1983).
On this see, J. Schneider, World Public Order of the Environment: towards an International Ecological Law and Organization (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979) p. 126.
Some claim that ‘fault’ is necessary; but it is often impossible to prove negligence in environmental matters; cf. A.L. Springer, The International Law of Pollution: (Westport, Conn.: Protecting the Global Environment in a World of Sovereign States, Quorum Books, 1983), p. 131.
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de Lupis, I.D. (1989). The Human Environment: Stockholm and its Follow Up. In: Taylor, P., Groom, A.J.R. (eds) Global Issues in the United Nations’ Framework. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07734-2_8
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