The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change.
This book sheds light on the latest trends in environmental law by analyzing some of the main sectors of law, including administrative law, constitutional law, EU law, US Law, and human rights law.
This book critically examines the extension of EU environmental legislation beyond EU borders through measures that determine access to the single market on the basis of processes that take place in third countries.
At a time of profound change and rethinking, this book provides insights into how environmental law in the UK has developed into its current form, and considers challenges it will face in the future.
Tackles the politically sensitive, complex issues of climate change, development and development cooperation, offering theoretical, political, and practical perspectives.
The objective of this book is to identify similarities and differences between the positions of Finland (as an EU Member State) and China, on Arctic law and governance.
A state-of-the-art review of adaptiveness as a key concept in environmental governance literature, complemented by global, regional, and national applications.
Explores the significance of the Anthropocene for environmental politics, analysing political concepts in view of contemporary environmental challenges.
The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.
This book provides original critical insights into climate politics and new directions for society''s response, for researchers, advanced students and policy makers.
The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.
The second edition of this leading reference work provides a comprehensive discussion of the dynamic and important field of international law concerned with environmental protection.
Tackles the politically sensitive, complex issues of climate change, development and development cooperation, offering theoretical, political, and practical perspectives.
Authorities in the fields of environmental and international law and policy, political science, environmental technology, and public administration compare and contrast the ways in which the United States and the European Union handle similar environmental issues.
While civil society and social movements claim for more effective measures to cope with anthropogenic climate change, legal scholars are witnessing the "e;aurora"e; of climate change law.
The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.
This curated book addresses, in the scholarly realm, the problems of soil degradation and provides some practical solutions for them to save soil life.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Maritime Law at Southampton University, current and former maritime law researchers came together to discuss the evolution of this fascinating area of law in the last 30 years and to stimulate discussion on its possible future.
This is the first book to outline a basic philosophy of ecology using the standard categories of academic philosophy: metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy.
In the highly praised The Market for Virtue, David Vogel presents a clear, balanced analysis of the contemporary corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement in the United States and Europe.
This book is based on the acknowledgment that climate change is a multifaceted challenge that requires action on the part of all stakeholders, including civil society, and the notion that climate change is at a tipping point with urgent measures needed in the next decade.
Under the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention, States have sovereign rights over the resources of their continental shelf out to 200 nautical miles from the coast.
