Environment law

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The book comprehensively analyses whether a State may be held responsible for environmental damage resulting from its wrongful conduct in international armed conflict.

This is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to offshore oil and gas floating production.

Now in its eighth edition, The Environmental Policy Paradox continues the book's tradition of offering an accessible introduction to the social, economic, legal, and political matters pertaining to environmental policy while also developing the student's own unique views.

This fascinating study looks at current ASEAN environmental law and reveals how it may adapt to future developments.

This is a major compendium of the existing knowledge of the ecology and management of tidal marshes by some of the leading experts in the field.

This impressive collection of original essays explores the relationship between social conflict and the environment - a topic that has received little attention within criminology.

This book offers novel theoretical responses to the question of how laws and institutions shape the human-wildlife relationship.

A wide range of crop genetic resources is vital for future food security.

The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices.

In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to access adequate food.

This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey.

An authoritative update of forest tree biotechnology and genomics methodologies, this book covers procedures and accomplishments from basic biological science to applications.

In 1970 Earth Day was first celebrated marking the dawn of worldwide environmental consciousness and the passing of many environmental laws.

This book analyses how damage resulting from offshore-related incidents is compensated in European waters, whilst providing models to improve such compensation.

The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity conservation initiatives, regional peace and integration, and the sustainable socio-economic development of rural communities.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of seventeen goals and 169 targets, with accompanying indicators, which were agreed by UN member states to frame their policy agendas for the fifteen-year period from 2015 to 2030.

The monograph analyzes international relations in the Arctic from two perspectives: cooperation and competition.

A comparative analysis via legal transplant theory on how England, America and China guarantee the right to environmental information.

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity.

The ISO 14000 EMS Audit Handbook is an innovative and cost-effective approach for the Environmental Management System (EMS) audit to ISO 14001.

The international legal rules affecting renewable alternative energy resources are amongst the most important legal and environmental concerns of the near future.

Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is widely regarded as one of the Kyoto Protocol's best creations and as an essential part of the international climate change regime.

This book will discuss the legal tools offered by international law that can support foreign direct investment (FDI) in the renewable energy sector in the Global South.

Research Ethics for Environmental Health explores the ethical basis of environmental health research and related aspects of risk assessment and control.

A solution to the problem of climate change requires close international cooperation and difficult reforms involving all states.

Environmental harms exert a significant toll and pose substantial economic costs on societies around the world.

An authoritative analysis of [a decade of] research on institutional architectures in earth system governance, covering key elements, structures and policy options.

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women's lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes.

Evaluates and compares risk regulation and safety management for offshore oil and gas operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway and Australia.

In the era of modern industrial regimes, the role of technology in tackling climate change is pivotal.

A novel theoretical framework to analyse the effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs, including ISO 14001.

This book explores the complex relationship between human rights and environmental protection.

Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible.

What happens under international law if a state perishes due to rising sea levels without a successor state being created?

Water is the most basic need of mankind.

Modern environmental regulation and its complex intersection with international law has led many jurisdictions to develop environmental courts or tribunals.

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests.

Hailed on its first publication as a masterly account detailing a roadmap for compliance with workplace standards, regulations, and rules, Surviving an OSHA Audit: A Management Guide, Second Edition, is specifically designed for managers and other professionals who seek to provide a safe work environment.

Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of animal rights.

The articles selected for this volume draw on game theory, political science, psychology, sociology and anthropology to consider how the process of dispute resolution is altered, challenged and made more complex by the presence of multiple parties and/or multiple issues.

Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat.

Fundamentals of Environmental Site Assessment and Remediation examines all aspects of environmental site assessment and remediation and outlines the interdisciplinary skills needed to work in the field.

Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.

This book questions the use of salvage law as legal regulatory framework for the remuneration of environmental services in salvage operations, proposing that such services should be based on direct contracting between commercial salvors and coastal States.

This book analyses the drivers of specific common pool resource problems, particularly in fisheries and forestry, examining the way in which private and public regulation have intervened to fight the common pool resource problem by contributing to the establishment and maintenance of property rights.

Unpacks key assumptions about the ''environment'', its relationship with violent conflict, and the justification for its protection underlying international law.

From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines.