State Responsibility for Transboundary Air Pollution systematically analyses the unique nature of problems that transboundary air pollution presents in international law. Although an attempt is made to present transboundary air pollution as a unified field, a distinction is made between pollution from industrial and related sources, and those from nuclear operations, given the very serious nature of risks that nuclear pollution presents.

• Nature and Sources of Pollutants


• Treaty Regimes Regulating Transboundary Air Pollution


• General International Law and Transboundary Air Pollution: Norms, Concepts, and Principles


• Norms of General International Law Applicable to Radioactive Contamination


• Procedural Obligations of States


• Determination of Responsibility


• Judicial Remedies For Transboundary Air Pollution


• Non-Judicial Methods of Supervision and Enforcement


• Conclusions

Phoebe Okowa is a lecturer in law at the University of Bristol