Our Publications
Books
Books
2019
E. Raftopoulos: International Negotiation: A Process of Relational Governance for International Common Interest
Ιn Greece, the book is available at POLITEIA Bookshop and PUBLIC Bookstores
2015
2nd Edition
E. Raftopoulos: The New Regime of the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Environment – The Problem and the Texts of the Greek Translation (in Greek)
MEPIELAN Studies in International Environmental Law and Negotiation – 1, Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens, 2003, Pp. xviii+399 *Second Edition, Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2015, Pp. xxvi+451.
2014
New Edition
E. Raftopoulos – M. McConnell (eds.): Contributions to International Environmental Negotiation in the Mediterranean Context
MEPIELAN Studies in International Environmental Law and Negotiation – 2, Ant. N. Sakkoulas – Bruylant Publishers, Athens, 2004, Pp. xxiii + 192 *New Edition: Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2014, Pp. xxv+196
2014
2nd Edition
E. Raftopoulos: Conventional Environmental Governance and the Mediterranean or Plus Ultra
(in Greek)
2nd Edition: Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2014 (repr. of 1st edition 2006)
Foundational Documents
2022
Authors:
Evangelos Raftopoulos (Editor)
Emeritus Professor of International Law, Director, MEPIELAN Centre/Panteion University of Athens
Elli Louka
International Expert, MEPIELAN Academic Fellow
Socrates Zachos
MEPIELAN Research Fellow
George Raftopoulos
MEPIELAN Research Fellow
e-Bulletin
SINCE
MEPIELAN E-BULLETIN, Editions 1 – 13, 2010 – 2024
MEPIELAN e-Bulletin ISSN 1792-4537
Please go to MEPIELAN E-BULLETIN for more information
Articles
2024
Maguelonne Dejeant-Pons: Spatial/ Regional Planning: a Territorial Dimension of Human Rights and Democracy
Mepielan e-Bulletin, January 2024
Tullio Scovazzi: The North-Western Mediterranean Particularly Sensitive Sea Area
Mepielan e-Bulletin, January 2024
Maja Seršić: Liability for Injurious Consequences Arising Out of Offshore Exploration and Exploitation
Mepielan e-Bulletin, January 2024
Evangelos Raftopoulos: Internationalizing Participatory Democracy: Implementing the Principles of the Aarhus Convention in International Decision-making
Mepielan e-Bulletin, January 2024
Li Guo: Public Participation in China’s Green Leap Forward: Paradoxes and Changing Mode in the Era of Political Control and Environmental Technocracy
Mepielan e-Bulletin, January 2024
2023
Jose Juste-Ruiz: The BBNJ Agreement comes ashore: a preliminary analysis
Mepielan e-Bulletin, May 2023
Evangelos Raftopoulos: Inter Folia Fulget: The UN General Assembly Resolution 76/300 of 28 July 2022 on “The Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment”
Mepielan e-Bulletin, May 2023
Elli Louka: The Pollution of Outer Space: Compulsory Norms Required for Addressing Hazardous Space Waste
Mepielan e-Bulletin, May 2023
Marina Soilemezidou: The Conundrum of Defining the Caspian Sea
Mepielan e-Bulletin, May 2023
Georgios Raftopoulos: Green hydrogen perspective and energy transition: Advancing sustainable energy governance in the Mediterranean region
Mepielan e-Bulletin, May 2023
2020
Evangelos Raftopoulos: Participatory Environmental Governance: Reflecting on Its Innovative Legal and Political Underpinnings
Mepielan e-Bulletin, November 2020
Meinhard Doelle & Sara L. Seck: Remedies for Loss & Damage from Climate Change: From Concept to Reality?
Mepielan e-Bulletin, November 2020
Elli Louka: The EU Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol to the Biodiversity Convention: A Game Changer or Institutional Paralysis?
Mepielan e-Bulletin, November 2020
Alexandros Kailis: The Negotiation on Mainstreaming a new Partnership Agreement between the EU and ACP countries into Sustainability Governance: Integrating Law and Policy
Mepielan e-Bulletin, November 2020
Aggelina Metaxatos: Unilateralism in the treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Biologist’s Perspective
Mepielan e-Bulletin, November 2020
2019
E. Raftopoulos: In Treaty we Negotiably Trust: Unearthing the Interrelationship between International Negotiation and Treaty in Constructing International Common Interest
Mepielan e-Bulletin, February 2019
J. Le Tellier & I. Mavroeidis: Science-Policy Interfaces and Regional Environmental Governance: The Case of the Mediterranean
Mepielan e-Bulletin, February 2019
T. Scovazzi: Going against the UNCLOS (in One Specific Instance)
Mepielan e-Bulletin, February 2019
A. Kailis: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Greece: The Pursuance of Policy Coherence and Interlinkage
Mepielan e-Bulletin, February 2019
2016
J. Juste-Ruiz: Ocean Options for Climate Change Mitigation: Disposal of Greenhouse Gases at Sea under the 1996 London Protocol
Mepielan e-Bulletin, December 2016
M. Doelle: The Paris Climate Agreement: A Historic Breakthrough In Spite of Shortcomings
Mepielan e-Bulletin, December 2016
2015
E. Raftopoulos: Dancing with the Transposition of the Public Trust Approach in the Realm of Conventional Environmental Governance
Mepielan e-Bulletin, November 2015
E. Louka: Fissile Material Galore: Is Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty Possible?
Mepielan e-Bulletin, November 2015
T. Scovazzi: The Human Tragedy of Illegal Migrants
Mepielan e-Bulletin, November 2015
2014
A. Uras: The Road Towards a New Regional Sustainable Development Strategy in the Mediterranean
Mepielan e-Bulletin, December 2014
A. Kailis: Mediterranean States Pave the Way for the Development of an Integrated Marine Litter Management Regime
Mepielan e-Bulletin, December 2014
D. Vidas: International Law and Sea Level Rise: The Role of the International Law Association
Mepielan e-Bulletin, February 2014
T. Maneta: Comparing the Ozone Layer Regime with the Climate Change Regime: No Single Solution – No Single Comparison
Mepielan e-Bulletin, February 2014
2013
M. Doelle: Loss & Damage in the UN Climate Regime: A Way to Bridge the Ambition Gap?
Mepielan e-Bulletin, October 2013
K. Tsimonis: Social Organizations and Governance in China: Reforming Regulations and Liberating Civil Society?
Mepielan e-Bulletin, October 2013
J. Juste-Ruiz: European Courts Go beyond the IMO Conventions on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage
Mepielan e-Bulletin, April 2013
M. Gavouneli: Offshore Installations: A Compehensive Regime?
Mepielan e-Bulletin, April 2013
2012
E. Raftopoulos: The Barcelona Convention System as an International Trust Regime: The Public Participation Aspect
Mepielan e-Bulletin, November 2012
E. Louka: The Standards for the Safety and Security of Nuclear Materials
Mepielan e-Bulletin, November 2012
N. Oral: The Black Sea Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Protocol
Mepielan e-Bulletin, February 2012
A. Kailis: Promoting an Integrated Maritime Strategy for the Atlantic Ocean Area: The European Union Leads the Way
Mepielan e-Bulletin, February 2012
2011
V. Brachya: Engagement for Effective Environmental Governance
Mepielan e-Bulletin, September 2011
M. Doelle: A Regime in Peril: Update on Efforts to Negotiate the Next Phase of the UN Climate Change Regime
Mepielan e-Bulletin, September 2011
E. Lygkoni: When the ‘Natural Resource Curse’ Becomes a Social Blessing: Sustainable Governance of Oil and Gas Development in Shetland Islands
Mepielan e-Bulletin, September 2011
E. Louka: Plutonium Quandary: What to Do with Nuclear Materials that Come Out of Weapons Programs
Mepielan e-Bulletin, April 2011
D. N. Chryssochoou: Who Shares Wins: The New Sovereignty Discourse
Mepielan e-Bulletin, April 2011
2010
D. Vidas: The Adriatic Sea Today: Unsolved Issues and Challenges
Mepielan e-Bulletin, December 2010
J. Juste-Ruiz: Current Issues on Mediterranean Environmental Governance
Mepielan e-Bulletin, December 2010
T. Scovazzi: A Second Italian Case on Cultural Properties Enmeshed in Fishing Nets
Mepielan e-Bulletin, August 2010
E. Raftopoulos: Sustainable Governance of Offshore Oil and Gas Development in the Mediterranean: Revitalizing the Dormant Mediterranean Offshore Protocol
Mepielan e-Bulletin, August 2010
A. Kailis: Integrated Maritime Governance – The case of the EU’s Integrated Maritime Policy
Mepielan e-Bulletin, August 2010
Articles
2019
E. Raftopoulos: “Compliance Procedure: Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea”, in Hélène Ruiz Fabri (ed), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law
Oxford University Press 2019
(available at: https://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law-mpeipro/e2455.013.2455/law-mpeipro-e2455)
2019
Doelle M. and Seck S.: “Loss & Damage from Climate Change: A Maturing Concept in Climate Law?”
Climate Policy 1752. DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2019.1630353
2017
A. Kailis: The influential role of consensual knowledge in international environmental agreements: negotiating the implementing measures of the Mediterranean Land-Based Sources Protocol (1980)
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Vol.17, no.2, April 2017, pp. 295-311
2016
E. Raftopoulos: Conventional Environmental Governance in the Mediterranean and its Evolving Institutional and Fiduciary Aspects in a Pragmatic Perspective.
Ocean Yearbook, Vol 30, 2016, pp. 129-173.
2016
A. Kailis: Technological, Economic and Natural Knowledge in Managing Environmental Problems: The Experience of Negotiating the Protocol for the Protection of the Mediterranean against Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities.
Ocean Yearbook, Vol. 30, Issue 1 (January 2016), pp. 91-128.
2015
E. Raftopoulos: Theorizing about Conventional Environmental Sea-Regimes as International Trusts: The Case of the Barcelona Convention System, Contemporary Developments in International Law – Essays in Honour of Budislav Vukas (Ed. by Rüdiger Wolfrum, Maja Seršić, Trpimir M. Šošić), Brill-Nijhoff (Leiden, Boston).
2015, Part 2-Law of the Sea, pp. 263-290.
2013
E. Raftopoulos: “Sustainability Governance, Public Trust and the Conventional Protection of Mediterranean Environment” in: Derecho del mar y sostenibilidad ambiental en el Mediterráneo (ed. José Juste Ruiz & Valentín Bou Franch), Tirant lo Blanch – Valencia, 2013, Chapter 1, pp.35-58.
2011
E. Raftopoulos: “The Mediterranean Response to Global Challenges: Environmental Governance and the Barcelona Convention System” in: The World Ocean in Globalization – Climate Change, Sustainable Fisheries, Biodiversity, Shipping, Regional Issues (ed. Davor Vidas & Peter Johan Schei), Martinus Njhoff Publishers, Leiden – Boston, 2011, Chapter 27, pp.507-532.
2003
E. Raftopoulos: “Aspects of the Course of International Environmental Law from Stockholm to Johannesburg (1972-2002)”, The Critical Review of Legal Theory and Practice, 2003/1, pp. 81-113 (in Greek)
International Reports & Papers
27
Dec 2021
Mainstreaming the Public Trust Approach (PTA) in the UNEP/MAP – Barcelona Convention System – An Intermediary Report
Authored by Evangelos Raftopoulos, Professor Emeritus of International Law, Founding Director of MEPIELAN Centre
Report in the framework of the implementation of the Small Scale Funding Agreement (SSFA), made in 26 February 2021 and signed in 14 May 2021, between UNEP/MAP and Panteion University through MEPIELAN Centre.
27
Jun 2019
Report to the OECD Environmental Performance Review Team on MEPIELAN Centre’s Role and Activities at National and International Level
Consultation Meeting of the OECD EPR Team with Environmental NGOs, Independent Experts and Academia, Athens, Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy.
11 - 13
Jun 2019
Concept Note for the MSSD Flagship Initiative “Develop Capacity Building Programmes on Issues related to Implementation and Compliance with Environmental Obligations and Agreements
18th Meeting of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD), Budva, Montenegro.
11 - 13
Jun 2019
Concept Note for the MSSD Flagship Initiative “Encourage the Accession to & Implementation of the Aarhus Convention on Public Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making & Access to Justice on Environmental Matters
18th Meeting of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD), Budva, Montenegro.
23
Nov 2017
A Report and Action Plan on the UNEP/MAP – MEPIELAN Centre Educational Master’s Degree Programme “Sustainable Marine Governance in the Mediterranean”
UNEP/MAP – MEPIELAN Centre International Educational Workshop, Athens, Pp.46
16
DEC 2009
Evaluation Report on the COST Training School on International Environmental Negotiation as a Governance Process
16 December 2009, MEPIELAN Centre E-Publications, Pp. 1-12
23
Jun 2006
Collection and Analysis of the Global the International Conventions on Safety-at Sea, the Barcelona Convention System for the Protection of the Mediterranean Coastal and Marine Environment, and the Relevant European and National Legislation Resulting in the Evolving Aegean Legal and Environmental Regime – Investigation into the Possibility of Establishing a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) Regime in the Aegean” (In Greek)
E. Raftopoulos & MEPIELAN Research Team
Report, MEPIELAN – Panteion University of Athens, Athens, 2005, Pp. 121 + 4 volumes of texts of legal instruments.