Environment law

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

To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit.

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sind heute „europäisiert“ und ohne eine Kenntnis des einschlägigen EU-Rechts nicht mehr zu begreifen.

The Antarctic Treaty (1959) was adopted for the purpose of bringing peace and stability to Antarctica and to facilitate cooperation in scientific research conducted on and around the continent.

Esta obra recoge las reflexiones de un nutrido grupo de juristas en torno a los retos planteados por el proceso de transformación del sector marítimo-pesquero en actividad sostenible, desde una perspectiva medio-ambiental, empresarial y social.

Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue until recently.

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.

Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.

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.

Understand the current concept of wetland and methods for identifying, describing, classifying, and delineating wetlands in the United States with Wetland Indicators - capturing the current state of science's role in wetland recognition and mapping.

An innovative, interdisciplinary analysis of the increasingly important relationship between EU environmental and competition law and policy.

This book re-imagines law as ecolaw.

An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.

Oil, an integral part of the contemporary global economy, is considered a driving force behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Geopolitical changes combined with the increasing urgency of ambitious climate action have re-opened debates about justice and international climate policy.

A vast and diverse body of EU law addresses an enormous range of environmental matters.

In an era of climate change, the need to manage our water resources effectively for future generations has become an increasingly significant challenge.

China''s deepening health crisis reveals the fragility of the party-state and undercuts China''s ability to project influence internationally.

The UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters known ubiquitously as the Aarhus Convention is having an ever-increasing influence on domestic and EU environmental law and procedure.

A comprehensive introduction to the IPCC as an institution, covering its origins, history, processes, participants, products, and influence.

The most significant overhaul of the U.

The articles selected for this volume draw on game theory, political science, psychology, sociology and anthropology to consider how the process of dispute resolution is altered, challenged and made more complex by the presence of multiple parties and/or multiple issues.

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

El Código de Minas Comentado contiene una recopilación de las normas que comprenden la legislación minera vigente, con sus correspodientes concordancias, jurisprudencia y doctrina relevantes, así como los comentarios de la autora, que orientan al lector en la aplicación e interpretación de las mismas.

The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation.

This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Simplify the enormous array of U.

This book comments on fifty key judgments which the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance have given on European Community environmental law.

Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central.

The environment has not always been protected by law.

This book examines the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO), with a focus on the capacity of its judiciary to strike a reasoned balance between free trade in biotechnology and biosafety as to promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

Law plays an essential part in the conservation of wildlife and ecosystems.

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

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.

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Originally published in 1987, this book provides a comprehensive manual to the international law governing accidents at sea during the 1980s.

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of humanity and for the sake of other species.

This handbook brings together diverse perspectives, major topics, and multiple approaches to one of the biggest legal institutions in society: property.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of research on environmental policy and governance.

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

This book contains assessment of the progress, or the lack of it, in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Sustainability and food production represent a major challenge to society, with both consumption and supply sides posing practical and ethical dilemmas.

Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal with it.

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.

This book analyses water allocation law and policy in New Zealand and offers a comparative analysis with Australia.

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods.