Global environmental change and international law: the introductory framework / Edith Brown Weiss -- International norm-making / Paul C. Szasz -- Changing requirements for international information / Peter S. Thacher -- Emerging principles and rules for the prevention and mitigation of envitonmental harm / Toru Iwama -- State responsibility, liability, and remedial measures under international law: new criteria for environmental protection / Francisco Orrego Vicuña -- Law and global environmental management: some open issues / Peider Könz -- The legislation and implementation of international environmental law and the third world: the example of China / Lai Peng Cheng -- An introductory note on a human right to environment / Alexandre Kiss -- The human rights system as a conceptual framework for environmental law / R.S. Pathak -- The contribution of international human rights law to environmental protection, with special reference to global environmental change / A.A. Cançado Trindade -- The implications of global change for the international legal system / Alexandre Kiss -- Restructuring the international organizational framework / Paul C. Szasz -- Intergenerational equity: a legal framework for global environmental change / Edith Brown Weiss -- Ecological security: response to global challenges / Alexandre S. Timoshenko.