Environment law

A big challenge for safety professionals is how to incorporate, build, and sustain a safety program into different business models during times of change.

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) strives for the sustainable and equitable utilization of genetic resources, with the ultimate goal of conserving biodiversity.

The right of indigenous peoples under international human rights law to give or withhold their Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) to natural resource extraction in their territories is increasingly recognized by intergovernmental organizations, international bodies, and industry actors, as well as in the domestic law of some States.

This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework.

European Environmental Law pulls together the most significant material on the subject from legal and other periodicals to form an essential compendium for those wishing to study the role of law in protecting and conserving the environment.

Multinational Enterprises and the Law presents the only comprehensive, contemporary, and interdisciplinary account of the various techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional and multilateral levels.

The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out for the United States a basic, yet ambitious, objective to reduce pollution to levels that protect health and welfare.

Assembling a series of voices from across the field, this book demonstrates how posthuman theory can be employed to better understand and tackle some of the challenges faced by contemporary international law.

Each of the four volumes in the Handbook of Safety and Health for the Service Industry demonstrates how to tackle particular safety and health dangers in sub sectors of the service industry.

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics is a powerful reference source for the identification and exploration of the underlying ethical issues in climate change law and policy.

Quality of Life and Public Management explores the possibility for a dramatic and significant improvement in quality of life for all population groups and sub-groups in the UK.

This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources.

This book offers a diverse set of solid concerted strategies in the development and implementation of specific "e;climate actions,"e; in natural and built places where we all live.

The assessment, remediation, and redevelopment of manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites pose a significant technical and financial challenge to successor property owners, including municipalities and other public entities undertaking brownfields revitalization, and to their consulting environmental engineers.

Environmental Law: Cases and Materials, Third Edition is designed to reflect the vital and symbiotic connection between land-use regulation and the more traditional scope of environmental law.

This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have led to a change in the way in which the USDA supports farmers from diverse backgrounds.

An important part of an organization's overall safety and health program involves safety management for contractors.

Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's development and stressing key principles, processes, and landmark cases.

In recent years the concept of the resource "e;nexus"e; has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles.

This Handbook examines the regulatory, social, financial, and technological issues pertaining to energy communities in smart cities.

Written for a general audience that includes attorneys, land developers, businesses, and government officials, this Fifth Edition provides a general overview of Washington's state and federal statutory and regulatory framework.

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.

Electrical and electronic waste is a growing problem as volumes are increasing fast.

This book seeks to better understand how International Environmental Law regimes evolve.

This book is about fiduciary law's influence on the financial economy's environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards sustainability.

Analysis of Chinese environmental law with a focus on the development in statutory regulation, institution building and judicial innovation.

This book addresses the legal-geographical implications of the fact that landscapes are not static, but dynamic.

As the baby boom generation ages, it is crucial that designers understand all they can about bringing this group, as well as all others, design that will offer function, aesthetics, and quality of life.

This 2002 book looks at how environmental protection requires multiple property regimes, including admixtures of private-, common-, and public-property systems.

Outlines a human rights-based approach to carbon finance, a framework for mainstreaming human rights into carbon project implementation.

On the 10th of October 2002 the International Court of Justice delivered the Bakassi decision, which, amongst other things, excised the resource rich land and maritime territory of Bakassi from Nigeria and transferred its legal title to Cameroon.

Man-made toxins affect our health, safety, and lives: this book plots an empowering, hopeful path to a safer, cleaner world.

River systems around the world are degraded and are being used unsustainably.

Based on the first edition with extensive analysis of practical applications of environmental risk management and compliance management systems, this second edition of International Environmental Risk Management reflects updates made in the understanding and application of risk management best practices and makes available a frame of reference and systematic approach to environmental and social governance (ESG).

The provision of an adequate means of escape from fire is fundamental to the design of new buildings and to the alteration, change of use or extension of existing buildings.

Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It considers plastic''s harms and offers a spectrum of public and private solutions.

This book examines the imperative role of global environmental governance, and the need to incorporate corporate environmental accountability and mechanisms for enforcement, to effectively address the global environmental crisis.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa's largest dam, but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region.

Environmental sustainability efforts require a great deal of engagement and political will, ranging from local communities to state departments.

This important new text introduces conservation criminology as the interdisciplinary study of environmental exploitation and risks at the intersection of human and natural systems.

Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "e;War on Coal.

This book addresses the ethical and practical issues at stake in the reconciliation of Indigenous and non-indigenous communities.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

First published in 1999, this book breaks new ground by treating the restrictive covenant from the aspect of the control of land use.

The renewable energy sector is changing rapidly, from funding and legislation through to technology and supply chain.

For the last few thousand years, humanity has struggled to achieve sustainable development.

What kind of decision-making should multinationals engage in to create a sustainable company?

Esta obra ha sido adelantada por el Grupo de Investigación en Derecho del Medio Ambiente de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y el Grupo de Investigación Agua, Derecho y Medio Ambiente (Agudema), que en esta ocasión han aunado esfuerzos para estudiar las herramientas jurídicas que se han desarrollado en Colombia y en España para lograr la conservación de la naturaleza.