环境法是一门新兴学科,兴起于上世纪60-70年代。而国际环境法,其出现则更晚。世界上第一本国际环境法的教材,是法国学者亚历山大·基思于1989年在法国出版。①随后,有关国际环境法的教材、专著日益增多,在美国、英国、加拿大等发达国家,都有许多重量 Environmental law is a new discipline, rising in the 60s and 70s of last century. International environmental law, however, appears later. The first teaching material on international environmental law in the world was published by the French scholar Alexander Keith in France in 1989. ① Subsequently, the teaching materials and monographs on international environmental law are increasing day by day. In the developed countries such as the United States, Britain and Canada, there are many weights