Public international law: environment

This book examines whether international law has an impact on the protection of the Amazon.

This book presents an important discussion on urbanization and sustainable soil management from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable cities, soil sealing, rehabilitation of contaminated soils, property rights and liability issues, as well as trading systems with regard to land take.

How do dominant views and arguments about environmental problems traverse and connect international and public law?

This book investigates how various scientific communities - e.

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights, being formalized into law in many legal systems.

This book provides a critical assessment of the New South Wales Land and Environmental Court (NSWLEC).

The impact of the new ''Great Game'' on Central Asia''s energy reforms illustrates the interconnection between law, geopolitics and institutions.

This book addresses the diverse ways in which international law governs the uses, management, and protection of fresh water.

This book provides a concise and up-to-date overview of environmental noise control issues, utilizing specific case studies from India to help explore noise mapping and monitoring, impact analysis, and policy, among other relevant topics.

This book examines the intersection of WTO trade liberalisation rules and domestic health protection, a subject that is of considerable interest to those concerned that the WTO impinges on national regulatory autonomy.

This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how.

This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) remains the cornerstone of global ocean governance.

By their very nature, ships do not stay put.

Provides the first scholarly and comprehensive book on the national renewable energy laws of every country that has them (113 countries).

The Law of International Watercourses is an authoritative guide to the rules of international law governing the navigational and non-navigational uses of international rivers, lakes, and groundwater.

The new edition of this essential text offers a comprehensive, critical and future-thinking commentary on international environmental law.

Examines land-use patterns and economic development on the Navajo Nation, telling a story about resource exploitation and tribal sovereignty.

This volume analyses key theoretical, institutional and legal aspects of intergenerational equity and justice in multi-level sustainable development treaty implementation.

This book covers several aspects of the application of Sustainable Development Goals to mining related subjects.

A practical guide to water conflict resolution for professionals and academics involved in water management.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is increasingly viewed as one of the most significant ways of dealing with greenhouse gas emissions.

This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

Clean Power Politics explains clean energy policy and the need for a successful transition to clean energy in the future.

Explains how to grow and govern the global economy in ways that will work economically and environmentally for sustainable development.

While energy has been extracted from the ground for two centuries, recent years have seen transformative changes to how easy it is to access underground energy resources.

This book presents the results of the first full-scale emissions trading schemes in Australia and internationally, arguing these schemes will not be sufficient to 'civilize markets' and prevent dangerous climate change.

A study of energy regulation in international trade law against the backdrop of energy markets that have undergone radical change.

Climate change is perhaps the most important issue of our time and yet despite the urgency of the problem, the measures necessary to mitigate it have not been implemented.

Overview of how decisions by China on climate, energy, and environmental policy will influence the country''s capacity to decarbonize.

Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development.

A novel and ground-breaking analysis of the prosecution of environmental harm before the International Criminal Court, addressing both the substance and procedure.

Justice and democracy can be mutually reinforcing in global governance, a domain where both are currently lacking.

This volume will be an essential reference for those involved in environmental and energy research.

The tension between trade liberalisation and environmental protection has received remarkable attention since the establishment of the WTO.

The doctrines of waiver, variation and estoppel are relied upon to justify or criticize a party's changed position as to its contractual obligations.

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.

This work investigates law as an instrument to deal with the challenges of sea level rise.

This book discusses the practical implementation of the Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control.

Neil Craik examines the structure and role of international environmental impact assessments.

The first comprehensive analysis of capacity markets, an increasingly important and controversial component of electricity markets.

This book redesigns environmental governance for a sustainability transition, helping academics and decision-makers truly understand the socio-economic impacts of policy.

Presents a detailed description and analysis of the international climate change regime established in 1992.

The aim of this short text is simply to introduce a reader to this topic.

As global climate change threatens to change radically both the political and physical climate with regard to water issues, so a reassessment of some of the fundamental principles of international water law is emerging.

The book is a collection of essays written by scholars/activists who are continuously concerned about the Fukushima catastrophe.

Presents the first comprehensive reflection on the nature of environmental law scholarship from the perspectives of leading scholars in the field.

Evaluates the fundamental legitimacy of judicial practice in the growing number of environmental cases heard before international courts.

Energy justice has emerged over the last decade as a matter of vital concern in energy law, which can be seen in the attention directed to energy poverty, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.