Environment law

This 2005 volume presents research on the crucial issues concerning energy law, that are facing the international community.

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

The UN Sustainable Development Goals are an ambitious agenda for environmental sustainability, economic development, and social transformation.

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An analysis of the normative prerequisites for addressing the challenges of democratic earth system governance in the Anthropocene.

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

Rob White's pioneering work in the establishment and growth of green criminology has been part of a paradigm shift for the field of criminology as it has moved to include crimes committed against the environment.

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods.

A comparison of how societal actors in different geographical, political and cultural contexts understand agents and drivers of sustainability transformations.

Whilst being an ambiguous and contested concept, sustainability has become one of the twenty-first century's most pervasive ideas, as humanity's increasing impact on the environment, as well as increasing social and economic inequalities, have local and global consequences.

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.

This book critically explores the legal tools, concepts, principles and instruments, as well as cross-cutting issues, that comprise the field of international environmental law.

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

A wetland center in London, parks in downtown San Francisco, a wildlife sanctuary in Arcata, and a wetlands park on the outskirts of Las Vegas-what do these urban and suburban locations have in common?

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

Inspecting and Diagnosing Disrepair provides housing officers, surveyors, landlords, tenants, lawyers and environmental health inspectors with the essential information they need to record, diagnose and remedy disrepair.

International Encyclopaedia of.

This book, which was first published in 1992 and then updated in 2007, provides a tool for dealing with the legal and institutional aspects of water resources management within national contexts and at the level of transboundary water resources.

This is a book about India's energy shortage, its causes, and consequences.

Autophagy Processes and Mechanisms details the process of autophagy and its significance in diseases and aging.

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

In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the 'business case' for sustainability.

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.

Regulatory Management: A Guide to Conducting Environmental Affairs and Minimizing Liability emphasizes the importance of establishing a proactive approach to permit negotiation and compliance.

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.

First Update Since 2003!

National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike.

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water.

Sustainable mobility has long been sought after in cities around the world, particularly in industrialised countries, but also increasingly in the emerging cities in Asia.

The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future.

There has been a rapid growth of interest in due diligence, especially in the fields of environmental law and the law of the sea.

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

At a time when Europeans across the continent are focused on the EU's future direction, this book provides an important contribution to the current debate.

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.

This book examines the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO), with a focus on the capacity of its judiciary to strike a reasoned balance between free trade in biotechnology and biosafety as to promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.

A practical guide for facility engineers and managers to understand the impact of environmental regulations when applied to operating equipment in any industry or facility.

Argues that the United States will not adequately address climate change until it transforms its fossil fuel energy policy.

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "e;the tragedy of the commons"e;.

The book examines the integration of environmental protection requirements into EU external relations focusing on unilateral, bilateral and inter-regional instruments, which have been less explored than the multilateral dimension of EU environmental policy.

Environmental health law is a wide-ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK.

Balances Scientific and Economic Points of View to Thoroughly Address Management IssuesResponding to the need for clarification and benchmarks, Environmental Life Cycle Costing provides the fundamental basis on which to establish a definitive methodology.

Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies.

This volume presents the viewpoints of academics, food lawyers, industry and consumer representatives as well as those of EU policymakers on the first ten years of activity of one of the most prominent European agencies.

Rückenwind für Ihr VorhabenDas Buch bietet Kommunen und Vorhabenträgern einen umfassenden Einblick in die komplexen Zusammenhänge von Planung, Finanzierung, Rentabilität und Realisierung von Windenergieanlagen.

This book is a collection of speculative judgments that, along with accompanying commentaries, pursue a novel enquiry into how judges might respond to the formidable and planetary-scaled challenges of the Anthropocene.

Examines the problem of poaching of elephants for ivory and looks into the factors that propagate it.

The establishment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) points to the crucial role attributed to science and knowledge for the successful implementation of biodiversity politics by both scientists and policy-makers.

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.