Environment law

This book challenges mainstream Western IEJ (intergenerational environmental justice) in a manner that privileges indigenous philosophies and highlights the value these philosophies have for solving global environmental problems.

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

Decentering Biotechnology explores the nature of technology, objects and patent law.

In anticipation of the UN Conference of the Law of the Sea taking place in 1973, Dr Kasahara and Dr Burke of the University of Washington first published North Pacific Fisheries Management earlier that year.

Die Autoren des Handbuchs untersuchen, welche rechtlichen, technischen und wirtschaftlichen Aspekte erfüllt sein müssen, damit Offshore-Windparks (OWP) als Projektfinanzierungen realisiert werden können.

Improving the Sustainable Development Goals evaluates the Global Goals (Agenda 2030) by looking at their design and how they relate to theories of economic development.

Bringing together contributions from diplomats, UN agency officials, lawyers and academics, this book provides insight into the evolution of international environmental law, diplomacy and negotiating techniques.

Key features:Presents a contemporary snapshot of the mechanisms underlying the evolution and adaptation of behaviorExplores how genetics, epigenetics, development, and environment shape behavior Discusses a broad range of behavioral repertoires and responses, including those related to thermoregulatory, foraging, predatory, displaying, social and escape strategies.

This book examines the US Water Quality Act to determine state choice in water infrastructure policy, for researchers and policymakers.

Africa is endowed with commercially viable quantities of several minerals and metals, and, more than ever before, African countries wish to harness their mineral resources for their economic development.

The book sheds new light on the achievements, challenges and legal complexity of the EU as a global environmental actor.

This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant economic system.

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.

Monitoring and enforcement issues must be analysed when determining the effectiveness of pollution control regulation, and clearly influence choices about how to regulate.

There isn't one conversation about animal ethics.

Environmental harms exert a significant toll and pose substantial economic costs on societies around the world.

The purpose of this textbook is to provide a well-rounded working knowledge of both climate change and environmental sustainability for a wide range of students.

This book reconsiders the use of food metaphors and the relationship between law and food in an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how food related topics can be used to describe or identify rules, norms, or prescriptions of all kinds.

This book presents an analysis of climate change and agricultural laws in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in order to determine whether they adequately addressed the concept of agricultural adaptation.

Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.

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

A comparative analysis via legal transplant theory on how England, America and China guarantee the right to environmental information.

This book discusses in a concise manner the key aspects that are important for the understanding of regulations and managerial framework governing marine pollution.

Mit einzelnen Staaten der USA, der Volksrepublik China und der Europaischen Union setzen wesentliche Emittenten CO2 Emittenten weiterhin auf Emissionshandelssysteme zur Reduzierung des CO2 Ausstoes.

Environmental policy is often practiced reactively with each crisis addressed as an isolated event.

Das Luftverkehrsrecht bewältigt Lärmemissionen derzeit vorrangig mit Mitteln passiven Schallschutzes.

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This "e;how-to"e; book on planning and managing GIS within local government describes and details the key components of a successful enterprise, sustainable and enduring GIS.

The 2002 New Delhi Declaration of Principles of International Law relating to Sustainable Development set out seven principles on sustainable development, as agreed in treaties and soft-law instruments from before the 1992 Rio 'Earth Summit' UNCED, to the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, to the 2012 Rio UNCSD.

In recent years, the safety management field has placed leadership and commitment at the center of effective workplace health and safety programs.

This book explores the nexus between natural resources ownership and the right to development in Africa.

Over the last decade, the world has increasingly grappled with the complex linkages emerging between efforts to combat climate change and to protect human rights around the world.

This edited collection is an interdisciplinary and international collaborative book that critically investigates the growing phenomenon of Indigenous-industry agreements - agreements that are formed between Indigenous peoples and companies involved in the extractive natural resource industry.

This book explores the process of shipbreaking in developing countries, with a particular focus on Bangladesh.

This book is about building and maintaining involved, sustainable, and inclusive communities from the ground up during a period of unprecedented growth and global change.

South Africa is widely recognised as a middle-income, industrialised nation, but it also ranks amongst the most unequal countries in the world in terms of its income distribution and human development.

Most scholars attribute systemic causes of food insecurity to poverty, human overpopulation, lack of farmland, and expansion of biofuel programs.

It is widely accepted that the future development of environmental law depends not on further legislation, but on more effective enforcement.

Explores normative and institutional innovation in international law as a response to the challenges to global order posed by rapid environmental change.

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

Examining international water allocation policies in different parts of the world, this book suggests that they can be used as a platform to induce cooperation over larger political issues, ultimately settling conflicts.

Critically examines whether and how local and experimental action can deliver significant and transformative ways of tackling climate change.

The book aims to analyze the development of the right to water from the perspective of human rights law.

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

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

Why do people harm, injure, torture and kill animals?

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

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

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.