Since 1963 the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (formerly known as Commission on Legislation and Commission on Environmental Policy, Law and Administration) and over the past thirty years the Environmental Law Centre, have continuously collected and catalogued legal provisions relating to environmental conservation in individual countries. A growing number of significant international instruments have been developed and added to the pool, as well as literature pertaining to environmental policy, law and administration.
Today the ELC-libraries collection hosts one of the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of environmental law and literature, which covers the entire spectrum of issues related to environmental conservation: from soil pollution to genetic resources, from water quality to waste management. IUCN, through the Environmental Law Centre, has pioneered the computerisation of its huge information resources since the late sixties.
The Environmental Law Centre is the Management Unit for ECOLEX, an information and capacity building service operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP. Since its launch in December 2003, the partners have worked on continuously improving this service.
ECOLEX is available free of charge and easily accessible over the internet at www.ecolex.org. The catalogue of the Literature Library can be found under the option 'Literature' and the collection of the Legislation Library under 'Treaties'.
The Libraries are open to visitors. Please notify us ahead of your visit either by phone or e-mail.
For literature: Andrea Lesemann (++49-228-2692-232; Andrea.Lesemann@iucn.org).
For treaties and national legislation: Anni Lukács (++49-228-2692-2235; Anni.Lukacs@iucn.org).
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