Environment, Health and Safety Law related links

Search Engines
Treaty Research Pathfinders
Comprehensive Sites for Foreign/International Law Information
Foreign Law (by Country)
International Courts, Tribunals and Arbitration
Selected Topical Sites
        Access to Information
        Air and Atmosphere
        Biodiversity
        Climate Change
        Environmental Impact Assessment
        Freshwater
        International Hazard Management
        Marine Resources
        Oceans
        Security
        Sustainable Development
Country Information

Search Engines

• AltaVista (ability to limit search by country domain and/or language, and includes instant translation service)
• Google
• FindLaw:
  • Index of Country Pages
  • LawCrawler International
• HotBot (ability to search by continent, country domain and language)
• Internet Legal Resource Guide (ILRG): 
  • LawRunner: Global Index
• Northern Light (ability to search by country and language)
• Yahoo!:
  • Business and Economy
  • Government: Countries
  • Government: International Organisations
    

Treaty Research Pathfinders

• ASIL Guide to Treaty Research
• E.B. Williams Library, International Environmental Law Research Guide
• George Washington University Law Library, A Guide to Treaty Research
• Stanford University
• United Nations
  • United Nations Treaty Collection
  • Definition of Key Terms Used in the UN Treaty Collection
  • Glossary of Terms Relating to Treaty Actions
  • United Nations Documentation: Research Guide
    

Comprehensive Sites for Foreign/International Law Information

• American Society of International Law
  • International Law Springboard 
  • Research Guide to International Environmental Law
• Cornell Law School and Legal Information Institute, International Law Materials
  
• ECOLEX
• Emory Electronic Reference Desk
  • Law by Subject 
  • Law by Country
• European Environmental Law Homepage
• FindLaw
• Globelaw: Multilateral Convention Sources
• New York University Law Library: Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases
  
• United Nations: International Law Page
• University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library: Foreign and International Law
  
• US Department of State: Private International Law
• US Library of Congress: Guide to Law Online
  

Foreign/International Law (comprehensive)

• ENTRI Portal
• European Environmental Law
• Harvard Law School, Research Guides
• UNEP Environmental Instruments
  

Foreign Law (by Country)

• ENTRI Country Explorer
• FindLaw
  • Country Links
  • World Constitutions
    

International Courts, Tribunals and Arbitration

• Arbitration
  • International Centre for Settlement of Investor Disputes
  • International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce
    
  • International Council for Commercial Arbitration
  • Links to National Arbitration Bodies
  • Permanent Court of Arbitration
• European Court of Human Rights
• European Court of Justice
• International Court of Justice
• International Criminal Court
  

Selected Topical Sites

• Access to Information
  • Convention on Access to Information, Public Information in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
    

• Air & Atmosphere (See also 'Climate Change')
  • Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
  • Vienna Convention for Protection of the Ozone Layer
    

• Biodiversity
  • Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  • Convention on Biological Diversity (Secretariat)
  • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Secretariat)
  • Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
  • Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention Secretariat)
  • UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
  • World Bank on Biodiversity
    

• Climate Change
  • Climate Policy Center
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • International Energy Agency
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (US)
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol
    

• Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context
    
  • Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment
    

• Freshwater
  • The Freshwater Society
  • International Year of Freshwater
  • Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
  • The World’s Water
    

• International Hazard Management
  • Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (Secretariat)
  • Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
  • Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
    

• Marine Resources
  • Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission
  • Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
  • Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
  • International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission
  • International Pacific Halibut Commission
  • International Whaling Commission
  • North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization
  • North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission
  • North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission
  • North Pacific Marine Science Organization
  • Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
  • OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic
  • Pacific Salmon Commission
    

• Oceans
  • Center for Leadership in Global Diplomacy
  • International Maritime Organization (incl. Conventions)
  • United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
    

• Security
  • Center for Security Policy
  • Demographic, Environmental, and Security Issues Project
  • Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project
  • Nautilus Institute
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Environmental Change and Security Project
    

• Sustainable Development
  • Agenda 21
  • Commission on Sustainable Development
  • Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
  • Doha Declaration
  • Earth Summit +5
  • Millennium Declaration
  • Monterrey Consensus
  • Rio Declaration
  • World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)
    • Declaration
    • Plan of Implementation
      

Country Information

• CIA World Fact Book
• Governments on the Web
• Library of Congress Country Studies
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development