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1 Roman Legal Trad. 1 (2002)

handle is hein.journals/rltrad1 and id is 1 raw text is: Environmental Protection? Protection of the Environment in Roman Law? Andreas Wacke (Cologne)* I. INTRODUCTION 1. Today, we are increasingly sensitive to problems of the environment. We know that our resources are limited and that we have to be particularly sparing in the use of energy. Water threatens to become scarce in some parts of the world. The fear that wars may break out among peoples over water is not unrealistic. Already today, at least a billion people are living without clean drinking water.' Therefore the protection of the * Dr. iur., Dr. iur.h.c. (Szeged), LL.D. h.c. (University of South Africa, Pretoria), Professor of Roman Law, Civil Law and Civil Procedure, Director of the Institut ffir Rdmisches Recht der Universitdt zu K6ln, D-50923 K6ln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, E-mail: Andreas.Wacke@Uni-Koeln.de. This paper was intended to be read at the Roman Law Conference organized by Michael Hoeflich in Kansas, August 2000, where I unfortunately was unable to attend. From Europe I send my best wishes to the new founded Roman Law Society, hoping that its new journal will flourish. - The paper is a summary of my broader German article: Umweltschutz im rdmischen Recht? to appear in the review Orbis luris Romani [OJR], edited by Peter Blaho and others (Brno/Trnava) vol. 7 (2001). I am grateful to my law-student Anne- Marie L~we (Kdln/Karlsruhe and London) for her important help in translating the main parts of my German text into English. General Literature: Andrea Di Porto, La tutela delia saiubritasfra editto e giurisprudenza I (Milano 1989), originally published as: Bullettino dell'Istituto di Diritto Romano (3,d ser. 30/31, 1988/89), more or less critically reviewed by Alberto Burdese, Tutela privatistica dell'ambiente e diritto romano, Rivista di Diritto Civile 35 II (Padova 1989) 505-511; Bertold Kupisch, Jura: Rivista Internazionale diDiritto Romano 41 (1990, actually 1993) 138-139; Hans Wieling, Gnomon: Kritisehe Zeitsehrift fOr die gesam te klassisehe Altertumswissensehaft 64 (Minchen 1992) 645-646; Francesco Musumeci, Tutela dell'ambiente e diritto romano, Index: Quaderni camerti di studi romanistiei20 (Napoli 1992) 564-574 (including an especially detailed exegesis). Renate Fischer, Umweltsehiitzende Bestimmungen im rnmisehen Recht (Aachen 1996, Shaker Verlag, originally Diss. iur. Augsburg, directed by Wilhelm Simshiiuser), reviewed by Francesca Lamberti, Principio responsabilith a Roma?, Labeo 45 (Napoli 1999) 2002