Jorge E. Viñuales - The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: A Commentary

General Editors: Professor Philip Alston, Professor of International Law at New York University, and Vaughan Lowe QC, Essex Court Chambers, London and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development

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The editor gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, which greatly facilitated the work leading to this commentary. The editors of Oxford University Press also supported the publication process with great commitment and professionalism. Last but not least, I would like to acknowledge the excellent work done by my former assistants Martina Kunz and Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli in gathering the source materials circulated among the contributors as well as in the organization of a workshop held in Geneva in October 2013.

Jorge E. Viuales

Pierre-Marie Dupuy

Jacqueline Peel

Francesco Francioni

Francesco Francioni

Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli and Jorge E. Viuales

Claire Molinari

Virginie Barral and Pierre-Marie Dupuy

Takhmina Karimova and Christophe Golay

Mamadou Hbi

Philippe Cullet

Christina Voigt

Sandrine Maljean-Dubois

Jonas Ebbesson

Martina Kunz

Margaret A. Young

Malgosia Fitzmaurice

Makane M. Mbengue

Antnio Augusto Canado Trindade

Priscilla Schwartz

Neil Craik

Phoebe Okowa

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Komlan Sangbana

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Marie-Louise Tougas

Annyssa Bellal and Gilles Giacca

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