The public health impact of global environmental problems and the role of international law.

I. INTRODUCTION

For several decades now we have been acutely aware of the increasingly intensifying result that environmental degradation has upon human health. While many of these results are localized, given the increasingly global nature of environmental point in disputes their impact on human health has also become global in dimension. Health quicks are becoming more and more belong toed about the potential impact upon public health if no precautionary measures (1) are taken to deal with these global environmental riddles

Of course, environmental riddles have consequences beyond their public health impact. The emphasis in this Article upon public health should not be