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The international community is currently facing a number of increasing global environmental challenges that need strong and innovative legal responses. International Environmental Law is a relatively new subject in most law degrees and postgraduate programmes are flourishing in this field. However, especially in the Spanish speaking academic field, there is a lack of comprehensive high-level academic books on International Environmental Law. This project aims to fill this gap with a book in Spanish that may be used by universities and research centres that have, or are planning to develop, Environmental Law postgraduate programmes, which include an international dimension to their curricula. The book is divided into three parts: a general, a specific and a transversal part that will allow the reader to have a comprehensive overview of international environmental law. While in the general part we will deal with the foundations of this discipline historical evolution, legal sources, its implementation and global environmental governance-, the specific part will have different chapters for key environmental regimes. Finally, the last part of the book will deal with a number of topics that are particularly relevant for environmental protection at a global level. The contributors to this project are aware that, despite the global nature of most environmental problems, there are also some geo-political characteristics that must be taken into account when attempting to deal with international environmental law. The book deals with International Environmental Law but within a IberoAmerican context. In order to pursue this approach the chapters will refer to examples arising from the Spanish and Latin American experience, where possible, and in the third part of the book, two chapters are included on specific environmental problems that are particular to Latin America.