Environment law

Originally published in 2004.

Industrial Safety and Health for People-Oriented Services focuses on the safety requirements of the tertiary sector of industry's education, health, and hospitality services.

The Earth on Trial examines the degree to which the law has accommodated an increased understanding of the natural environment.

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

Humankind benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by ecosystems, and collectively these benefits are known as ecosystem services.

A tool for predicting environmental impacts, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) can also be used to predict the impacts of natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks.

This book analyses the legal challenges facing international cooperation on water management in the twenty-first century.

This volume provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary analysis of the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection by leading scholars and practitioners.

This book presents a broad overview of the many intersections between health and the environment that lie at the basis of the most crucial environmental health issues, focusing on the responses provided by international and EU law.

This volume examines women and wildlife trafficking via a collection of narratives, case studies and theoretical syntheses from diverse voices and disciplines.

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability.

Crimes Against the Environment explains the seriousness of the threat posed by pollution, its roots, how it has evolved, how it differs across the planet, and how society has endeavored to create and enforce laws directed at its control.

Sustainability is one of the key concepts underlying our thinking about corporate responsibilities, particularly with respect to the environment and inter-generational justice, but also in relation to corporate governance and the long-term economic viability.

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.

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

A new phase is emerging in the relationship between energy and resource activities and the communities that are affected by them.

Associating social justice with landscape is not new, yet the twenty-first century's heightened threats to landscape and their impact on both human and, more generally, nature's habitats necessitate novel intellectual tools to address such challenges.

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.

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

The Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive (Directive 2001/42/EC) (SEA Directive) has been a lurking legal presence in EU and UK environmental law.

This book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the integration of environmental policies into US free trade agreements.

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

As planet Earth continues to absorb unprecedented levels of anthropogenically induced environmental and climatic change, two similar academic schools of thought have emerged in recent years, both making sustained efforts to explain how and why this state of affairs has evolved.

Climate change has become the most pressing moral and political problem of our time.

Transparency in the regulation of water utilities is essential in order to ensure quality and fairness.

While the world's oceans cover more than seventy percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in International Relations (IR), being treated either as a corollary of land or as time.

Comparative Perspectives on Communal Lands and Individual Ownership: Sustainable Futures addresses property and land title as central mechanisms governing access to communally-held land and resources.

Environmental health encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents.

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed.

Questions the doctrinal construction of environmental law and looks for innovative legal approaches to ecological sustainability.

Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development.

This book explores the application of concepts of fiduciary duty or public trust in responding to the policy and governance challenges posed by policy problems that extend over multiple terms of government or even, as in the case of climate change, human generations.

National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike.

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

Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development?

This edited book focuses on how States should regulate activities in space and explores strategies to advance State responsible behaviour to ensure sustainable use and effective protection of outer space for peaceful purposes.

This insightful and timely book examines the intersection of international climate change law and international human rights law with respect to loss and damage from climate change.

Reveals the diverse ways people are using the law to restore rivers in the western United States and around the world.

This book addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system.

This book examines whether international law has an impact on the protection of the Amazon.

Transparency in the regulation of water utilities is essential in order to ensure quality and fairness.

This title was first published n 2000: The most recent developments in occupational health and safety regulation in the UK's offshore oil industry represent a departure from traditional legal forms.

This book explores the increasing concern over the extent to which those suffering from forced cross-border displacement as a result of environmental change are protected under international human rights law.

Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's development and stressing key principles, processes, and landmark cases.

In the era of modern industrial regimes, the role of technology in tackling climate change is pivotal.

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

The battle is an old one: man versus nature.

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

The new edition of this essential text offers a comprehensive, critical and future-thinking commentary on international environmental law.

This comprehensive handbook provides a detailed and unique overview of current thinking about marine governance in the context of global environmental change.