Directory of Scholars

KEES BASTMEIJER


PROFESSOR OF NATURE PROTECTION AND WATER LAW

email c.j.bastmeijer@uvt.nl

Primary Research Interests

  • Climate change law
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • International environmental law
  • Natural resources management (forestry, mining, etc)
  • Regional environmental law (eg European Union)

Secondary Research Interests

  • Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
  • Corporate environmental responsibility
  • Criminal law & the environment
  • Enforcement & compliance issues
  • Human rights & the environment
  • Indigenous peoples & the environment
  • Municipal & land use planning
  • Science & risk in environmental regulation
  • Water law

Selected Publications

  • "Theory and Practice of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment" (C.J. Bastmeijer and T. Koivurova (eds)), Brill/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, in Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development Series (General Editor David Freestone), 2008, 419 pp.
  • Managing Human Activities in Antarctica: Should Wilderness Protection Count?, New Zealand Yearbook of International Law 2005, 335-353 (refereed).
  • "Sustainability, Limitations of Law, and the Changing Relationship between Companies and NGOs" (with J.M. Verschuuren), in: I. Demirag (ed.), Towards Better Regulation, Governance and Accountability: Global Perspectives from Corportations and Civil Society, Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield, 2005, 267 - 282 (refereed).
  • Regulating Antarctic Tourism and the Precautionary Principle (with R. Roura), 98 American Journal of International Law (2004), 763-781 (refereed).
  • The Antarctic Environmental Protocol and its Domestic Legal Implementation, doctoral thesis, International Environmental Law and Policy Series, Volume 65, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2003, 527 pp. (refereed)
  • "Adaptation to Climate Change to Save Biodiversity: Lessons Learnt from African and European Experiences" (with Saja Erens and Jonathan Verschuuren), in IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, conference book : Climate Law in Developing Countries post-2012: North and South Perspectives, forthcoming 2009.
  • Most of these publications are available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=617336