Environment law

Composting and Recycling Municipal Solid Waste is a comprehensive guide that identifies, describes, explains, and evaluates the options available when composting and recycling municipal solid waste (MSW).

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

A synthesis of the relevant agreements, customary norms and ongoing discussions on the international law on climate change.

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic of cooperation among the involved countries.

Emerging Pathogens at the Poles: Disease and International Trade Law explores the applicability and possible complicating issues of the SPS Protocol to the Polar Regions in light of emerging pathogeneses and unknown host and environmental susceptibility and resilience.

This volume provides a reference textbook and comprehensive compilation of multifaceted perspectives on the legal issues arising from the conservation and exploitation of non-human biological resources.

The 1980s was a time of significant social, political and cultural change.

The book examines the narratives of climate change which have developed and which are currently evolving in three areas: law, fiction and activism.

This book provides a blueprint for an International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ).

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court.

47 auteurs se sont réunis pour rendre hommage à la Professeure Anne-Christine Favre, une référence incontournable du droit de l'environnement, autrice de nombreuses publications, longtemps membre et présidente de la Commission fédérale en matière de bruit et correspondante en Suisse pour le Centre international de droit comparé de l'environnement (CIDCE).

From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us-and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself.

This book focusses on the developing role that the city currently plays in dealing with the effects of climate change and the instruments that can be utilised to make them truly green.

This book on Environmental Jurisprudence of Courts of India provides a general overview of the enactments passed by the Indian Parliament for environmental protection such as the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, Wild Life (Protection Act), 1972, The Public Liability Insurance Act, (1991), The Biological Diversity Act, 2002, and National Environment Policy 2006.

This book provides original critical insights into climate politics and new directions for society''s response, for researchers, advanced students and policy makers.

This book examines how nature is constructed through law, building on the constructivist concept that ''nature'' is a self-perpetuating, self-reinforcing social creation.

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability.

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially situated.

Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

This book places contemporary problems of ocean use management in historical context beginning with the time of Hugo Grotius, whose seminal 1609 work The Freedom of the Seas was the basis of ocean law for the next three centuries.

Hazardous Waste Compliance concentrates on government regulations as they relate to hazardous waste and other hazardous materials.

The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth.

This volume advances the claim that the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) adopted in 2001 is the only existing international agreement with the potential to promote food security, conservation of biodiversity and equity.

The volume serves as an important mile-stone in the process called "e;second track"e; dialogue and cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian academics on crucial shared problems, the resolution of which is vital to the peace process.

There are few topics as controversial as globalisation.

Reveals the diverse ways people are using the law to restore rivers in the western United States and around the world.

Energy security is known for its 'slippery' nature and subsequent broad range of definitions.

This book explores the methods through which international law and its associated innovative global governance mechanisms can strengthen, foster and scale up the impacts of treaty regimes and international law on the ability to implement global governance mechanisms.

Waste management poses increasing challenges to both the protection of the environment and to human health.

This is a comprehensive reference work, textbook, and sourcebook on the environmental education policies implemented in industrialized and developing nations since initiation of the benchmark UNEP-UNESCO International Environmental Education Programme at the Belgrade Workshop in 1975.

Prompt engineering engages as a transformative approach to enhancing interaction, creativity, and innovation.

Examines critical links between local content requirements and the application of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets.

This book is a comprehensive study of differential treatment for developing countries in international environmental law.

Introduction to International Environmental Law provides a concise overview of international environmental law and the relations and agreements among nations to facilitate environmental protection.

Biomethane through resource circularity: Research, Technology and Practices is an invaluable resource for researchers, policy makers, implementers and PhD and Marsters level students in universities analyzing the present status, waste biomass including agro wastes, success in experimentation & commercial production, future needs and other relevant areas.

This book argues for the utility of human rights in the practice of ocean governance.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the legal and policy frameworks for marine fisheries management and examines the efficiency of the institutions responsible for the formulation, implementation and enforcement of marine fisheries laws and policies in Bangladesh.

This book brings together contributions by leading scholars that systematically cover the most important ethical issues concerning nuclear energy.

Climate change is one of the great problems facing humanity; this book introduces readers to major rulings from around the world that centre on climate change as a core focus.

Conflict is a major facet of many environmental challenges of our time.

The chapters in this book explore the impact of recent shifts in global and regional power and the subsequent development and enforcement of international refugee protection standards in the Asia Pacific region.

The history of human rights suggests that individuals should be empowered in their natural, political, political, social and economic vulnerabilities.

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'.

Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates.

Taking a uniquely interdisciplinary view of the Eastern Mediterranean region's water problems, this book considers some of the technical and regulatory solutions being proposed or implemented to solve the difficulties of diminished or polluted water supplies.

The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history.

The world's freshwater supplies are increasingly threatened by rapidly increasing demand and the impacts of global climate change, but current approaches to transboundary water management are unsustainable and may threaten future global stability and international security.