La idea central del libro es la de articular la existencia de la obligación positiva a cargo del Estado de protección del ambiente y su responsabilidad por los daños ecológicos y ambientales que se causen, bien sea por su propia actividad, por inactividad, o por su insuficiente (ineficiente) cumplimiento de las misiones inherentes al deber de protección.
Written both for general readers and college students, Dialogues on Climate Justice provides an engaging philosophical introduction to climate justice, and should be of interest to anyone wanting to think seriously about the climate crisis.
Environmental and Pollution Science, Second Edition, provides the latest information on the environmental influence of a significant number of subjects, and discusses their impact on a new generation of students.
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).
The fixity or mobility of borders are key themes within the border studies literature and have useful critical application to urban and environmental planning through theory, pedagogy and practice.
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.
The Handbook of Regulations on Environmental Protection in China details the environmental laws, regulations and standards in China for those enforcing and creating environmental policy as it stood in the early 1990's.
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.
The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society, with ecological integrity as a major theme.
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.
Sustainability is, and continues to grow as, a key issue for organizations: in the board room; with investors, customers and regulators; and from employees whose demands on organizations include improving their social and environmental performance in return for loyalty and commitment.
Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy-from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement-is not working.
This book provides an insightful and holistic up-to-date perspective of the constitutional governance and legal framework in India with regard to environmental protection.
The book examines whether the jurisdiction of coastal States under international law can be extended to include powers of intervention towards vessels posing a significant risk to their coastal and marine environment, but which have not yet been involved in any incident or accident.
Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civil society, public sector, and private sector resource management.
This edited collection analyzes the appropriate balance between conservation and development and the place for participation and popular protest in environmental assessment.
Waite and Jewell: Environmental Law in Property Transactions provides a comprehensive practitioner guide to the environmental issues that arise in property transactions.
From the time it was first published in 1998, Shipping and the Environment has been the leading text on international and US law and practice in this field.
Die Fischerei als Form der Meeresnutzung hat neben ihrer wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung in vielen Küstenregionen auch massive Auswirkungen auf die Meeresumwelt.
Given the tendency of books on disasters to predominantly focus on strong geophysical or descriptive perspectives and in-depth accounts of particular catastrophes, Disaster Research provides a much-needed multidisciplinary perspective of the area.
An examination of the safety laws and regulations, particularly in the areas of labor and employment, this book provides a working knowledge of the impacts, requirements, and implications of safety professionals' actions and inactions as related to state and federal laws.
This book provides an introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights, being formalized into law in many legal systems.