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Yevhenii Suietnov
Department of Environmental Law, YaroslavMudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Email: evgeny-suetnov@ukr.net
Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (2021) 001, 47-85. https://doi.org/10.33002/jelp001.03
Accepted: 30 April 2021
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The article analyses general aspects of the formation and development of the ecosystem approach in international environmental law before the adoption and entry into force of the Convention on Biological Diversity. On the grounds of thorough and complex research encompassing the main international environmental agreements and scientists’ views, it is concluded that the issues of protection and conservation of natural ecosystems and implementation of the ecosystem approach had already received wide support at the international level by that time, whereas adopted agreements created the necessary base for the further formation and development of the ecosystem approach as a holistic concept under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Environmental law; International agreements; Sustainable development; Biological diversity; Ecosystem; Ecosystem approach
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Yevhenii Suietnov, ‘Formation and Development of the Ecosystem Approach in International Environmental Law before the Convention on Biological Diversity’ (2021) 001 Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 47-85. https://doi.org/10.33002/jelp001.03
Suietnov, Y. (2021). Formation and Development of the Ecosystem Approach in International Environmental Law before the Convention on Biological Diversity. Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 001: 47-85. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/jelp001.03
Suietnov, Y. (2021). Formation and Development of the Ecosystem Approach in International Environmental Law before the Convention on Biological Diversity. Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 001, 47-85. https://doi.org/10.33002/jelp001.03
Suietnov, Y. Formation and Development of the Ecosystem Approach in International Environmental Law before the Convention on Biological Diversity. Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 2021, 001, 47-85. https://doi.org/10.33002/jelp001.03
Suietnov, Yevhenii. 2021. “Formation and Development of the Ecosystem Approach in International Environmental Law before the Convention on Biological Diversity”. Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 001:47-85. https://doi.org/10.33002/jelp001.03
Suietnov, Yevhenii. 2021. “Formation and Development of the Ecosystem Approach in International Environmental Law before the Convention on Biological Diversity”. Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 001:47-85. https://doi.org/10.33002/jelp001.03
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