International Environmental History and Law

Abstract

Within this research, environment is seen as a legal-historical problem, linked to the ecological thinking (environmentalism or ecologism) and also seen as the consequence to the main environmental disasters caused by men, including nuclear tests. It tracks the history of the international environmental law since its beginnings in the Seventies in a chronological order, with a special eye on the contemporary environmental policies in the world and specifically on European energy policy. At the end of this research, I focused the attention on some aspects and concepts that we need to know and understand to follow up and improve further coherent policies for our global community. The intent is to stimulate new researches on this discipline.