Origins

UNCED collection. Centre for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, New York.

UNEP home page. UNEP.

World Commission on Environment and Development. Our common future. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Principles

Hunter, David, James Salzman and Durwood Zaelke. International environmental law and policy (esp. chapter 7: "Principles and concepts in international environmental law"). New York: Foundation Press, 1998.

Hunter, David, Julia Sommer and Scott Vaughan. Concepts and principles of international environmental law (environment and trade series #2). Geneva: UNEP, 1994.

OECD. Environmental principles and concepts (OCDE/GD(95)124). Paris: OECD, 1995.

National environmental management

World Bank. Five years after Rio: Innovations in environmental policy. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1997.

MEAs

Linkages: A multimedia resource for environment and development policy makers. IISD.

UNEP. Environmental legal instruments (MEAs). UNEP.

Vaughan, Scott and Ali Dehlavi. Policy effectiveness and MEAs (environment and trade series #17). Geneva: UNEP, 1998.

von Moltke, Konrad. International environmental management, trade regimes and sustainability. Winnipeg: IISD, 1996.

Chapter 3: The basics of the WTO