Die Intensivierungsfunktion eines mehrschichtigen Schutzes durch verschiedene umweltvölkerrechtliche Verträge am Beispiel des Deutschen Wattenmeers

The Wadden Sea is inter alia protected as a wetland by the Ramsar Convention, it is protected as a natural heritage site by theWorld Heritage Convention and as an in-situ conservation area by the Convention on Biological Diversity. The three treaties and their respective standards ofprotectionareanalyzedinorder todemonstrate similaritiesanddifferences inlegal standards of protection that one single site can benefit from. In a second step, since practice of the three conventions speaks in favor of a coordination across treaties, the concept of a norm conflict in international law is put in context with the specific situation of the Wadden Sea. Do the obligations for protected areas deriving from these three treaties contravene each other? Is there a need to harmonize a prima facie norm conflict? This contribution aims at connecting scholarship in general public international law and international environmental law. In the end, treaty congestion and diversification of international law can also have positive effects; they can result in an intensified protection of a protected area.

Autor*in: Ass. iur. Anne Dienelt