Environment law

The book illuminates the nature, extent, and political implications of normative conflicts between environmental protection laws and human rights.

Assembling a series of voices from across the field, this book demonstrates how posthuman theory can be employed to better understand and tackle some of the challenges faced by contemporary international law.

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

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

Toxic Torts Deskbook is a concise, readable text covering the fastest-growing area of tort and personal injury litigation.

This book examines global environmental governance and how legal, institutional, and conceptual reform can facilitate a transformation to a new 'natural-systems' form of agriculture.

This book aims to analyze contexts and perspectives in the relationships between environmental sustainability, human development and organizations.

This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.

Waite and Jewell: Environmental Law in Property Transactions provides a comprehensive practitioner guide to the environmental issues that arise in property transactions.

Consider the Consequences of Bringing a Chemical to MarketProduct Stewardship: Life Cycle Analysis and the Environment explores the regulatory and scientific aspects of the life-cycle consequences of bringing a chemical to market.

Outlines a human rights-based approach to carbon finance, a framework for mainstreaming human rights into carbon project implementation.

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom.

First published in 1997, this book discusses the interplaying factors environmental issues have on justice and property and other social problems.

Real Estate Due Diligence is the first textbook on due diligence, the cornerstone of every successful real estate deal.

Demystifying the Law: An Introduction for Professionals explains unfamiliar legal concepts in interesting contexts, thus helping you to understand and remember them.

This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples' human rights and for sound national and international legal governance.

Forest management auditing is expanding from its traditional focus on forest management, stewardship and Chain of Custody certification to more innovative topics such as ecosystem services, forest carbon credits, Non-Wood Forest Products, wood energy and Fair Trade certification.

This is an analytical assessment of how the government can accelerate development and deployment of energy technologies, for researchers and policy makers.

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

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism.

Public participation has become a recurring theme and a topical issue in the field of international environmental law, with many multilateral environmental instruments calling on states to guarantee effectively the concept in their laws and practices.

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

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 current jurisdictional status of the Mediterranean Sea is remarkable.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems.

Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast.

As prosperity levels rise, so too does the number of products and services being consumed.

This monograph addresses the phenomenon of mass harm and how it may be resolved through collective redress.

It is increasingly argued that a focus on environmental sustainability is fundamental to effective and equitable governance, and ultimately for the good of mankind.

Current advancements in civil rights and environmental activism emphasize the crucial importance of making environmental information widely available to the public, regardless of whether it is in the hands of the government or of corporations, especially when the information is needed to understand and prevent risks for human health and the environment.

Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas.

This book proposes a conceptualisation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements as a form of International Organisations, exploring the ways in which they have expanded over time by discussing the nuances of authority in global governance.

It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states.

Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional 'ecosystem services', from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection.

Environmental principles from the polluter pays and precautionary principles to the principles of integration and sustainability proliferate in domestic and international legal and policy discourse, reflecting key goals of environmental protection and sustainable development on which there is apparent political consensus.

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.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

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.

Enriches our understanding of how individuals, groups, and institutions can effectively cooperate to govern shared spaces and resources.

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

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and current practices of rewilding.

Producing enough food is a basic human priority and a critical challenge in the face of a growing population and the deteriorating ecological health of the planet.

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

Mit der Neufassung seiner Jagdgesetzgebung im Jagd- und Wildtiermanagementgesetz hat das Land Baden-Württemberg einen neuen Weg beschritten.

Environmental pollution is one of humanity's most pressing issues and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water.

This book examines the Union-State and inter-State relations concerning water issues in India.

New Paradigms in Environmental Biomonitoring Using Plants highlights and explores the importance of biomonitoring methodologies and the latest updates in the field.

The current jurisdictional status of the Mediterranean Sea is remarkable.

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