Environment law

Resolving a conflict is based on the art of helping people, with disparate points of view, find enough common ground to ease their fears, sheath their weapons, and listen to one another for their common good, which ultimately translates into social-environmental sustainability for all generations.

This book critically engages the emerging field of global animal law from the perspective of an intersectional ethical framework.

Economic Theory for Environmentalists is a much-needed and heralded new book that examines the implications of neoclassical economic theory and how it relates to the environment and environmental activity.

This book analyses the interpretation of environmental offences contained in the waste, contaminated land, and habitats' protection regimes.

For years, exploration of seabed natural resources has been ongoing while exploitation in deep marine areas remained unrealistic due to land-based mineral availability and costs.

Similar to the United States (US) Natural Resource Damage (NRD) program, defined under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or "e;Superfund"e;) and the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), the European Union's (EU) Environmental Liability Directive (ELD)imposes liability for, and requires remediation of, significant damage to natural habitats and species protected at Community and national levels, surface and ground waters covered by the Water Framework Directive, and land.

The 1980s was a time of significant social, political and cultural change.

By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, HIV and East Africa investigates the impact of the epidemic on people's lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades.

Onshore unconventional gas operations, in most jurisdictions, operate on the legal principle that all activities during exploration and extraction are 'temporary' in nature.

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability.

The time has come for us to collectively reexamineand ultimately move pastthe concept of sustainability in environmental and natural resources law and management.

This study explores the reasons behind the different responses of the legal systems of Europe, Japan and the USA in coping with BSE, one of the major food safety crises in recent years.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

Informed by the authors' extensive experience in helping organizations improve the performance of their management systems, Inside Energy: Developing and Managing an ISO 50001 Energy Management System covers how to apply each of the many requirements of the standard in a systematic and comprehensive manner.

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.

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries.

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades.

This book undertakes a scholarly assessment of the state of the art of law and policy perspectives on groundwater and climate change at the international, regional and national levels.

Governance of global water resources presents one of the most confounding challenges in contemporary natural resource governance.

This book explores the concept of transforming the current macroeconomic system from one based on continuous growth that doesn't recognize the fundamental importance of Earth's natural support structures, to a system consistent with the basic views of biophysical economics that acknowledges that all real wealth ultimately derives from planetary resources, both renewable and non-renewable.

This book makes an argument for the legal role and responsibility of sovereign states in the trusteeship of the Earth.

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).

As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met.

The monograph analyzes international relations in the Arctic from two perspectives: cooperation and competition.

This book holistically covers the issue of environmental diplomacy by building a firm foundation for readers to understand the different dimensions of the topic.

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book assesses the status of groundwater models and defines models and modeling needs in the 21st century.

Rules set by global governance organizations affect communities across the world.

An encyclopedic, A-Z listing of terminology, Loss Prevention and Safety Control: Terms and Definitions addresses the need for a comprehensive reference that provides a complete and sufficient description of the terminology used in the safety/loss prevention field.

This book is a practical guide to the international, EC and UK law applying to the various uses of nuclear energy and radioactive substances.

This book draws on the experiences of the indigenous movement in Myanmar to explore how the local construction of indigenous identities connects communities to global mechanisms for addressing human rights and environmental issues.

This book provides a serious and timely perspective on the relationship between two important and dynamic fields of international law.

Examines the successes and failures of the Clean Air Act in order to lay a foundation for future energy policy.

Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity.

Company law can and should act as a bridge (rather than a barrier) to progressive corporate climate action.

Several disturbing issues pose a threat to the marine environment and its wellbeing, among them marine environmental pollution and degradation of marine biodiversity.

This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes.

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

This book argues that we should approach the relationship between climate change and security through the lens of ecosystem resilience.

The relationship between intellectual property and food affects the production and availability of food by regulating dealings in products, processes, innovations, information and data.

This book traces the development-environment discourse in India and examines the multi-layered interaction between society and nature in the light of the role of the state, judiciary and the civil society.

This book presents case studies on the human rights performance of state-owned enterprises from four Latin American and three European countries, as well as foreign investments by Chinese state-owned enterprises on these continents.

The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity conservation initiatives, regional peace and integration, and the sustainable socio-economic development of rural communities.

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

This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level.

The book highlights new imaginaries required to transcend traditional approaches to law and development.

Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today's modern extractive agricultural system to a sustainable natural-systems agriculture.

This book examines the relationship between International Environmental Law and Human Rights Law regarding the protection of the environment in times of occupation.