Environment law

International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades.

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has a master scheme in mind for the protection and preservation of the environment, for sustainable development of life and improving the ecosystem.

This book provides an in depth, yet understandable description of the ecological, socioeconomic, and other parts of the natural environment that may be affected.

This book addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system.

Addressing three central questions of legal policy, this is an interesting and comprehensive analysis of the need to control and regulate tobacco consumption.

In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights to the Colorado River in the USA.

Industrial Safety and Health for Goods and Materials Services focuses on the safety requirements of the wholesale and retail trades, including warehousing.

Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development.

First published in 1998, this volume looks at the potential and motivation for companies and industries to go green.

This book provides an original and groundbreaking account of the applicability and key contributions of international law to small-scale fisheries, a fisheries subsector that has been historically overlooked by governments and international legal scholarship.

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book assesses the status of groundwater models and defines models and modeling needs in the 21st century.

International Encyclopaedia of Environmental Laws have occupied the centre: stage among all efforts towards global environmental protection and consecration.

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

Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions.

The Sardar Sarovar Project has been one of the most debated development projects of the past several decades at both an international level and within India itself.

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence - fundamental when thinking about climate change.

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date comparative study of the management and resolution of conflicts between conservation and recreation in protected areas in the US and China.

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming.

For more than 500 years, Indigenous laws have been disregarded.

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.

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

Other People's Country thinks through the entangled objects of law - legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on - that 'govern' waters and that make bodies of water 'lawful' within settler colonial sites today.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and current practices of rewilding.

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

The EU has been portrayed as a leader in international climate change negotiations.

In December 2015, 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, seen as a decisive landmark for global action to stop human- induced climate change.

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

This book provides readers with a foundation in policy development and analysis, describing how policy, including legal mechanisms, are applied to the marine environment.

This book explores African domestic and regional responses and approaches to environmental protection and sustainability.

Dangerous climate change is coming.

Few nations rely upon the ocean as much as Japan for livelihood, culture and transport.

As prosperity levels rise, so too does the number of products and services being consumed.

This classic textbook provides a thorough overview of European private international law.

Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change.

This book analyses over 20 years of rights-based litigation in the areas of climate change and plastic pollution in order to assess the value of rights in confronting and overcoming planetary crises.

The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability reflects on how the law can help tackle the current environmental challenges and make our societies more resilient to future crises.

Leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of transnational efforts to respond to climate change, for researchers, graduate students and policy makers.

The United States and China are each actively pursuing development of a Blue Economy to promote greater marine, maritime, and naval capabilities through more innovative, sustainable and environmentally friendly means.

Paying particular attention to how politicians and bureaucrats in the two countries deal with the scientific uncertainty that pervades environmental decision making, Harrison and Hoberg analyse case studies of seven controversial substances suspected of causing cancer in humans: the pesticides Alar and alachlor, urea-formaldehyde foam insulation, radon gas, dioxin, saccharin, and asbestos.

Deforestation in tropical rainforest countries is one of the largest contributors to human-induced climate change.

This book explores the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of Right to Water and analyzes its values in the context of water policy frameworks of the union governments in India.

Rights of nature is an idea that has come of age.

There are thousands of substances manufactured in the United States to which the public is routinely exposed and for which toxicity data are limited or absent.

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.

Within the broad framework of the common law of tort,the torts of nuisance and the rule in Rylands v.

The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.

Based on the lifelong experiences of two authors as supervisors and teachers, the Fourth Edition of this bestseller provides up-to-date information for newly promoted or management-aspiring professionals and engineers in the fields of environmental health, occupational health and safety, water and wastewater treatment, public health, and many others.

The integration of renewable energy resources into the electricity grid presents an important challenge.

In recent years, the private rented sector has overtaken social housing to become the main housing provider with some of the worse housing conditions that are linked to preventable health inequalities.