Environment law

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 provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the integration of environmental policies into US free trade agreements.

At the UN General Assembly in 1997, an overwhelming majority of States voted for the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - a global overarching framework governing the rights and duties of States sharing freshwater systems.

A consensus has emerged that corporations have societal and environmental responsibilities when operating transnationally.

This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human-earth relationship.

This book offers a paradigm-shifting exploration of lawmaking for the complex interactions between Earth systems and outer space.

This volume provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary analysis of the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection by leading scholars and practitioners.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of research on environmental policy and governance.

Emerging contaminants include an extensive array of synthetic chemicals in global use, such as plastic additives, microplastics, water disinfection byproducts, pharmaceuticals, man-made nanomaterials, and UV-filters.

Toxic Torts Deskbook is a concise, readable text covering the fastest-growing area of tort and personal injury litigation.

Simplify the enormous array of U.

This book offers a guide, for companies, pension funds, asset managers, and other institutional investors, on how to commence the legal, governance, and financial strategies needed for effective climate mitigation and adaptation, and to help distribute the economic benefits of these actions to their stakeholders.

Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context.

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

Extensively updated, this third edition provides a valuable guide to the tools and techniques used to perform Phase 1 site assessment.

It is an unfortunate truth that our oceans offer valuable resources that are too often used unsustainably.

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.

This book clarifies factors that play an important role in securing the effectiveness of legal regimes that aim to protect public interests of the international community.

Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Soil and Water Management discusses the latest approaches for monitoring soil and water degradation in coastal regions under current climate conditions as well as potential further changes in the future.

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.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks.

This title was first published n 2000: The most recent developments in occupational health and safety regulation in the UK's offshore oil industry represent a departure from traditional legal forms.

Private landowners or Federal Agencies responsible for cleaning up radiological environments are faced with the challenge of clearly defining the nature and extent of radiological contamination, implementing remedial alternatives, then statistically verifying that cleanup objectives have been met.

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

The human use of nature is a polarizing topic in India and across the globe, often perceived as contradictory to traditional exclusionary conservation.

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.

Over the last decade the regulatory evaluation of environmental and public health risks has been one of the most legally controversial areas of contemporary government activity.

Globalisation of the market, law and politics contributes to a diversity of transnational sustainability problems whose solutions exceed the territorial jurisdictional limits of nation states in which their effects are generated or occur.

Although many developing countries have environmental statutes, regulations, and resolutions on the books, these laws are rarely enforced and often ignored.

This title was first published in 2002.

A review of federal and decentralised systems of governance, and whether these facilitate or hinder climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years.

There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature.

In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces.

This groundbreaking text provides students with an overview and assessment of green criminology as well as a call to action.

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

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

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

This volume focuses on issues of vital interest in environmental policy making.

Plastics show up in every area of our lives.

Issues of the environment and its sustainability are linked to those of global warming, climate change and loss of biodiversity.

The book analyses how State aid law and the law of the free movement of goods apply to renewable energy support schemes, how they have impacted on the design and implementation of national support schemes, and how they have been instrumentalised to affect national renewable energy support policies.

It is hard to imagine an area of study or a discipline in which a basic knowledge of the issues would not be beneficial, since environmental concerns are very much in the public consciousness.

This book studies the extent to which nuclear safety issues have contributed towards the stagnation of nuclear power development around the world, and accounts for differences in safety regulations in different countries.

This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources.

When studying international law there is often a risk of focusing entirely on the content of international rules (i.

The first book of its kind, Handbook of Chemical Regulations: Benchmarking, Implementation, and Engineering Concepts introduces the concept of global harmonization and interlinks between regulations and examines the reasons behind major requirements for chemical manufacture, article production, and distribution, importation, and usage.

This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the degradation process of an ecosystem, drawing upon the Mar Menor as a case study to highlight the damage human pressure causes to the environment.

A detailed overview of the law-and-economics methodology developed and employed by environmental lawyers and policymakers.

Today more than ever, when the world is beset by environmental, social, healthcare and economic challenges, we need courage in our politics, both nationally and globally.