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"Preface and acknowledgements" [2019] ELECD 1462; in Marsden, Simon (ed), "Protecting the Third Pole" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) ix

Book Title: Protecting the Third Pole

Editor(s): Marsden, Simon

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Preface and acknowledgements

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Preface and acknowledgements
I heard about the Third Pole for the first time in 2013, while attending the
inaugural Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík. Looking into the related
environmental issues and associated regulation, I was surprised by the lack of
legal commentary, and concerned to draw attention to the absence of effective
protective legal frameworks. Presenting a number of papers and writing them
up for publication began the journey for this book. Recognition of the identifi-
cation of the need for a Third Pole environmental regime subsequently formed
the major part of the concluding chapter to my 2017 book, Environmental
Regimes in Asian Subregions: China and the Third Pole. This 2019 book,
Protecting the Third Pole: Transplanting International Law, follows directly
from that.
Despite the challenges of continuing conflict over land and resources
between states in the subregion, the focus on international law in this book
was nonetheless considered the most appropriate means of analysing the
way forward. The theory of legal transplants in turn provided the method
to examine the potential effectiveness of developing Third Pole subregional
governance. While the book is focused on international environmental law and
the law of international watercourses, international climate law, international
humanitarian law, international human rights law, international disaster law
(and other international legal subdisciplines) remain also to be considered;
the domestic law of relevant states, and the potential of wild law (and perhaps
links between law and religion) are also important areas to examine. My hope
is that readers of this ...