Environment law

This book investigates how sustainability informs key principles and concepts of domestic and international law.

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.

How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities.

This book examines the legal protection and management of inland waters in Europe.

Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems.

The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

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

Prompt engineering engages as a transformative approach to enhancing interaction, creativity, and innovation.

Environmental and Pollution Science, Second Edition, provides the latest information on the environmental influence of a significant number of subjects, and discusses their impact on a new generation of students.

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

In Climate Change Law in China in Global Context, seven climate change law scholars explain how the country's legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change.

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

This book makes indicators more accessible, in terms of what they are, who created them and how they are used.

Das ProblemDie Photovoltaik ist eine der Schlüsseltechnologien der Energiewende.

Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, this book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world.

In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework.

During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies.

The idea of human dominion over nature has become entrenched by the dominant rights-based interpretation of private property.

The world increasingly relies on groundwater resources for drinking water and the provision of food for a growing population.

Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) is one of the most holistic approaches to protecting marine and coastal ecosystems as it recognizes the need to protect entire marine ecosystems instead of individual species.

Traditionally, industry has been accused of sacrificing sustainable development in the pursuit of short-term profit.

Utilizing the principle of reciprocity, Reciprocity and China's Transboundary Waters: The Law of International Watercourses analyses the past, present and future of the law of international watercourses with a particular focus on China.

Animal welfare as a concept and practice is important to many disciplines and professions.

Written in a way that facilitates understanding of complex concepts, laws, and policy, Production, Growth, and the Environment: An Economic Approach explores how economic growth usually makes people better off, but also asks at what environmental cost?

The aim of this book is to encourage integration of the natural and social sciences with the policy and design-making community, and thereby develop a deeper understanding of complex environmental problems.

Global findings estimate that 80 per cent of marine pollution originates from land-based sources and is trans-boundary in nature.

Spanning the last 50 years of fisheries policy in Europe, this book is the parting contribution and career-spanning reflection from one of Europe's most renowned social scientists working in the field of fisheries management and policy.

Ecological integrity is concerned with protecting the planet in a holistic way, while respecting ethics and human rights.

Geoengineering provides new possibilities for humans to deal with dangerous climate change and its effects but at the same time creates new risks to the planet.

This book corrects the tendency in scholarly work to leave Indigenous peoples on the margins of discussions of environmental inequality by situating them as central activists in struggles to achieve environmental justice.

Originally published in 1995, Analyzing Superfund outlines the key issues of the superfund reauthorization debate in the United States.

In the 21st century, environmental harm is an ever-present reality of our globalised world.

There is much debate about the scope of international law, its compatibility with individual state practice, its enforceability and the recent and limited degree to which it is institutionalized.

This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by the SDGs.

Written by one of the nation's leading environmental law firms, this handbook provides concise, easy-to-understand explanations of your state compliance obligations.

This collection of essays examines the roles which land use planning can play in the protection of the environment.

This book looks at how legal frameworks can and do reduce risks arising out of disasters.

This title was first published in 2000: The noble goals embodied in the Endangered Species Act are colliding with financial and social realities.

Animal welfare as a concept and practice is important to many disciplines and professions.

Sustainable development is now widely accepted as a political objective in the UK and elsewhere but to what extent has the UK's rhetoric on sustainable development become a reality?

I see soil in a new light, and I wonder about my own lawn and garden.

Do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions affect human rights?

Inspecting and Diagnosing Disrepair provides housing officers, surveyors, landlords, tenants, lawyers and environmental health inspectors with the essential information they need to record, diagnose and remedy disrepair.

Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives and the competing priorities between developed and developing economies.

This book explores the growing interests of China in the Arctic and examines the nature of its interests and motivations in maintaining its involvement and presence in the region.

This book critically examines the development and current structure of European Union agri-environmental measures at a substantive level.