Environment law

A wide range of crop genetic resources is vital for future food security.

The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since.

This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face.

An account of everyday justice and the factors that shape it in the battle to seek legal relief for environmental pollution in China.

This book examines how the EU can be a more proactive actor in the promotion of the principles of sustainability and fairness from a legal environmental perspective.

Provides a comprehensive guide to climate change law in Australia and internationally, focusing on Australia''s implementation of climate-related treaties.

Judicial review of environmental decisions is an important and growing area of public law.

The direction of higher education is at a crossroads against a background of mounting sustainability-related issues and uncertainties.

This book questions the use of salvage law as legal regulatory framework for the remuneration of environmental services in salvage operations, proposing that such services should be based on direct contracting between commercial salvors and coastal States.

Quantitative Risk Assessment for Environmental and Occupational Health, Second Edition features twice as many risk analysis models with complete examples as the previous edition.

This book offers two major proposals for environmental law reform, laying the groundwork for a third generation of environmental law.

The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge and future research priorities is warranted.

The oil price shocks of the 1970's led to severe recessions in the 1980's in the United States.

PRESENTACIÓN El derecho forestal cobra extraordinaria relevancia comoherramienta para la concreción de diversos fines del derecho ambiental,especialmente aquellos relativos a alcanzar el uso racional de los recursosnaturales, la conservación de la naturaleza, y avanzar hacia el desarrollosostenible.

A critical and contextual overview of European environmental law examining today''s key environmental challenges alongside traditional topics.

This book compiles, discusses, and explains the key concepts in land politics in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format.

Offering a detailed account of the various legal arrangements at European Union level, this book is an ideal reference tool for practitioners and legal scholars.

Mountains are the home of significant ecological resources - wildlife habitat, higher elevation plant systems, steep slopes, delicate soils and water systems.

This book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially transformative solutions to the current stalemate in contemporary water policy design.

Using the simple and effective checklist method, this book offers a convenient and efficient way to comply with complicated federal regulations and to help your employees understand the dangers of the hazardous materials in your workplace.

This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture.

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.

The Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.

Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy.

This easy-to-read, concise book is filled with examples, hints, reminders and reviews designed to help engineers and scientists develop effective writing skills.

Technologies like CRISPR and gene drives are ushering in a new era of genetic engineering, wherein the technical means to modify DNA are cheaper, faster, more accurate, more widely accessible, and with more far-reaching effects than ever before.

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

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 provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions.

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

The global landscape of education has been reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing the various challenges faced by countries worldwide.

During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world.

Technologies like CRISPR and gene drives are ushering in a new era of genetic engineering, wherein the technical means to modify DNA are cheaper, faster, more accurate, more widely accessible, and with more far-reaching effects than ever before.

Summarises and places in context the main provisions of the key documents in EC environmental law.

This book compares the ways in which trade unions in five EU member states have responded to increased migration.

Effective protection of the marine and terrestrial environment increasingly requires cooperation between neighbouring States, international organizations, government entities and communities within States.

The textbook of Programming Language is a unique and pioneer book to be handled by anyone who intend to study the Concepts related to Programming any Software.

This book takes an interdisciplinary look at environmental protection during Poland's transition to market democracy.

Multistakeholder governance is proposed as the way forward in global governance.

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.

Through a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches, this book explores the role of international environmental law in protecting and conserving plants.

Accident Prevention and OSHA Compliance contains all the information you need to reduce or avoid injuries, illnesses, fires, and equipment damage resulting from an accident.

Esta obra, que recopila una serie de artículos sobre temas comunes al derecho privado y al derecho del medio ambiente, es un homenaje al doctor Fernando Hinestrosa (Rector del Externado entre 1963 y 2012) quien apoyó con generosidad y grandeza estas ramas de la ciencia jurídica.

A vast and diverse body of EU law addresses an enormous range of environmental matters.

This book provides an innovative insight into the regulatory conundrum of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), deploying transnational legal analysis as a methodological framework to explore the most controversial area of risk governance.

Legal mechanisms for the management, development and protection of water resources have evolved over the years and have reached unprecedented levels of complexity and sophistication.

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic of cooperation among the involved countries.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, for students, researchers and policymakers.