Environment law

This book is the first to provide a detailed and critical account of the emergence, development, and implementation of plant variety protection laws in Asian countries.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

Hace ya veinte años que el Departamento de Derecho del Medio Ambiente de la Universidad Externado de Colombia inició la colección Lecturas so­bre Derecho del Medio Ambiente.

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 book provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental regionalism at the international level, analyzing the concept and identifying recurring patterns from six in-depth case studies.

This book increases the visibility, clarity and understanding of ecological law.

Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development shows how ICT, as an enabler for all spheres of development, can help innovate business processes and operations, and provide faster integration of new technologies into business systems.

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics is a powerful reference source for the identification and exploration of the underlying ethical issues in climate change law and policy.

This thoroughly revised edition of the New Jersey Environmental Law Handbook provides a comprehensive reference work that the reader can rely on for up-to-date and accurate information on New Jersey's environmental law.

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

This book provides the definitive account of a decade-long transformation of energy policy in California with rippling consequences.

An objective and rigorous analysis of climate change liability law in eighteen jurisdictions around the world.

China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower.

A comprehensive legal analysis of how governance of human activities in developed states should be restructured to improve ecological protection.

Demonstrating the shortcomings of current policy and legal approaches to access and benefit-sharing (ABS) in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), this book recognizes that genetic resources are widely distributed across countries and that bilateral contracts undermine fairness and equity.

Environmental Policy and NEPA is a concise study of environmental policy-where we have come from, what we are facing and where we can go in the future.

This first study of the environmental challenges handled by the League of Nations pioneers new perspectives on legal and environmental history.

Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world.

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts presents the theoretical basis for the various impacts of wind turbines on humans.

First published in 1999, this volume responds to the 1991 enactment by the German government of its Packaging Ordinance, which led to new or revised packaging legislation throughout the European Union.

PRESENTACIÓN El año 2020 ha presentado extraordinarios desafíos dealcance global en materia sanitaria y ha probado fehacientemente los efectosnegativos que las actividades humanas generan sobre el entorno natural y lasupervivencia humana.

The importance of the effective management of the natural environment has become vital over the past few decades.

This title was first published in 2002.

Since the very beginning of European integration, electricity has been within the legal sphere of the EU.

The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue.

Few concerns preoccupy contemporary progressive thought as much as the issue of how to achieve a sustainable human society.

International environmental agreements provide a basis for countries to address ecological problems on a global scale.

How far would or should you go to feel secure?

This book examines how litigation over climate change shapes the choices of governments, corporations and the public regarding mitigation and adaptation.

Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or broadly support livelihoods.

Analyzes how combinations of instruments at different levels of government, or smart mixes, can effectively regulate transboundary environmental harm.

This second edition of Building Procurement has been revised to take into account recent developments in procurement, such as the Private Finance initiative, as well as some of the recommendations in the Latham Report and its working groups.

This book explores the contributions of East Asian traditions, particularly Buddhism and Daoism, to environmental philosophy in dialogue with European philosophy.

Being the public voice of over 180 member organisations across nearly 90 countries, La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement, has planted itself firmly on the international scene.

Although tackling the causes of climate change through mitigation is necessary, it is also essential to examine the effect of climate change and what international cooperation can take place to ensure global adaptation measures.

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.

Climate change is now a mainstream part of the international political agenda.

This book explores various contemporary aspects of the growing field of housing, land and property (HLP) rights.

This one-stop, interdisciplinary overview of compliance explains what compliance is, how it is studied, and what factors shape it.

This book presents a novel examination of Marine Protected Areas within a security context, bridging science, policy, and geopolitics, and addressing the often-under-emphasized aspect of environmental justice.

Most Americanseven environmentalistsdate the emergence of laws protecting nature to the early 1970s.

This landmark book focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and on their role in struggles for the right to the city.

European Environmental Law pulls together the most significant material on the subject from legal and other periodicals to form an essential compendium for those wishing to study the role of law in protecting and conserving the environment.

Coastal communities depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods, but the common property nature of marine resources poses major challenges for the governance of such resources.

Environmental laws and regulations are extremely complex and difficult to understand.

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts presents the theoretical basis for the various impacts of wind turbines on humans.

This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts.