Environment law

Written for a general audience that includes attorneys, land developers, businesses, and government officials, this completely updated edition provides a general overview of Washingtons state and federal statutory and regulatory framework.

The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology was the first comprehensive and international anthology dedicated to green criminology.

Man-made toxins affect our health, safety, and lives: this book plots an empowering, hopeful path to a safer, cleaner world.

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

This Handbook examines the regulatory, social, financial, and technological issues pertaining to energy communities in smart cities.

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

This book brings together research and studies in the fields of organised crime and of 'green criminality' against the natural environment.

This book presents an analysis of climate change and agricultural laws in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in order to determine whether they adequately addressed the concept of agricultural adaptation.

Ecological Management of Mining: Achieving Environmental Compliance is a study and comparison - global in scope - of current practices used by mining firms striving for ecological management.

Analysis of Chinese environmental law with a focus on the development in statutory regulation, institution building and judicial innovation.

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

This book presents a critical analysis of India's environment pollution and protection scenario, following the 'State-Pressure-Response' framework to analyse the parameters of conservation.

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

The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge and future research priorities is warranted.

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

Circular Economy in the Construction Industry is an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, implementers and PhD and Masters-level students in universities analyzing the present status of Construction and Demolition Wastes (C&DW) management, materials development utilizing slag, fly ash, HDPE fibre, geo-wastes, and other wastes, green concrete, soil stabilization, resource circulation in construction sectors, success in experimentation & commercial production, future needs, and future research areas.

River systems around the world are degraded and are being used unsustainably.

Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries.

Demonstrates how the principles of unitization agreements applied to aquifers could provide a new approach to groundwater governance models.

El ius gentium y el ius communicationis constituyen junto con las nociones de mare liberum y mare clausus las bases jurídicas de la evolución del Derecho del mar.

This set of papers presents a description of the synthesis of hydrological problems and various environmental implications and management strategies for different highland and headwater regions of the world.

The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the state of international law as it applies to transboundary groundwater resources and aquifers.

Informed by the authors' extensive experience in helping organizations improve the performance of their management systems, Inside Energy: Developing and Managing an ISO 50001 Energy Management System covers how to apply each of the many requirements of the standard in a systematic and comprehensive manner.

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

Presents a beautiful vision of how we could change our structures and order to give us a new role on Earth - one that will protect the natural world, rather than destroy it.

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

The textbook of Programming Language is a unique and pioneer book to be handled by anyone who intend to study the Concepts related to Programming any Software.

Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case.

Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments is a preliminary contribution to the establishment of re-embodiments as a theoretical strand within legal and ecological theory, and philosophy.

Agrobiodiversity and agroecology go hand-in-hand in promoting environmental resilience in international food systems as well as climate change resilient food policy.

The oil price shocks of the 1970's led to severe recessions in the 1980's in the United States.

Despite the growing recognition of the importance of environmental issues for nation-state security, current research on international environmental security is insufficient.

This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level.

This book provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance.

Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this context is yet to be defined.

The aim of this book is to catalyse global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management.

This book offers a guide, for companies, pension funds, asset managers, and other institutional investors, on how to commence the legal, governance, and financial strategies needed for effective climate mitigation and adaptation, and to help distribute the economic benefits of these actions to their stakeholders.

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

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

This book uses spatio-temporal analysis to understand urbanisation in Indian cities and explain the concept and impact of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

An authoritative review of the implementation of new crop breeding technologies and their role in feeding an increasing global population.

National security in the interest of preserving the well-being of a country is arguably the first and most important responsibility of any democratic government.

This book addresses the legal-geographical implications of the fact that landscapes are not static, but dynamic.

The book explores English marine protected areas regulation, linking the regulatory landscape to key theoretical themes in environmental social sciences.

This book bridges the gap between the many different disciplines used in applications of risk analysis to real world problems.

This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework.