Environment law

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 analyses the nexus between land access and the extractive industries in Africa, specifically highlighting the gaps in energy, land and mining laws and the practical solutions needed to settle the increasing number of land disputes in resource-rich areas.

This book offers a post-structuralist critique of the problems associated with modernist accounts of environmental harm and regulation.

The importance of the effective management of the natural environment has become vital over the past few decades.

This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens.

This book investigates how sustainability informs the universal principles used in domestic and international law.

A Vital Explanation of Water Law and PolicyBecause demand for and access to quality water far exceeds the current supply, it is increasingly critical to understand the state and federal laws and policies that govern water rights.

The book examines the narratives of climate change which have developed and which are currently evolving in three areas: law, fiction and activism.

Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants.

Taking a social science approach, this book explores the governance of sustainable seafood, which is fundamental to food and nutrition security as well as being an important source of income and employment in many regions.

Looks at international negotiation from a novel, relational international law perspective and challenges prescriptive models.

During the negotiations in 2015 that led to the adoption of the Paris Agreement, one of the most contentious issues was the introduction of a dedicated provision in Article 8 on what is known as 'loss and damage'.

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

Introducing readers to the study of law, media and popular culture, this text, using three original case studies, re-examines the assumptions underpinning existing research and suggests alternatives.

The inclusion of qualitative social data into global environmental and economic input-output (IO) models remained illusive for many years.

This book explains the drivers and implications of unconventional gas at regional, national and global scales with case studies and in-depth analyses.

A critical, intercultural and interdisciplinary review of our relationship with the environment, and its reflection in law and governance.

The goal of every safety professional and safety program is to be proactive and to identify problems while complying within safety guidelines.

Public misperception of radiological risk consistently directs limited resources toward managing minimal or even phantom risks at great cost to government and industry with no measurable benefit to overall public health.

A comprehensive resource on different aspects of sustainable carbon capture technologies including recent process developments, environmentally friendly methods, and roadmaps for implementations.

This book addresses the ways in which the Black Summer megafires influenced the development of climate narratives throughout 2020.

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.

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

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

A comprehensive introductory textbook that integrates environmental ethics with social and religious perspectives, this cross-disciplinary approach helps students understand the depth and breadth of environmental issues in a globally relevant way.

How are indigenous and local people faring in their dealings with mining and related industries in the first part of the 21st century?

Mountains are the home of significant ecological resources - wildlife habitat, higher elevation plant systems, steep slopes, delicate soils and water systems.

REDD+ operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South.

Modern environmental regulation and its complex intersection with international law has led many jurisdictions to develop environmental courts or tribunals.

The ten catastrophic risks that threaten human civilisation and the planet, and advice on how to overcome or mitigate them.

This book addresses the recognition of the Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, examining their conceptualisation and implementation.

This groundbreaking text provides students with an overview and assessment of green criminology as well as a call to action.

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.

A novel theoretical framework to analyse the effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs, including ISO 14001.

This book systematically explores the emerging legal discipline of Earth System Law (ESL), challenging the closed system of law and marking a new era in law and society scholarship.

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There is a growing need to support undergraduate educators in the development of environmental management educational materials.

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.

The rapid industrialization of societies has resulted in radical changes to the Earth's biosphere and its local ecosystems.

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management, enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters.

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.

The steady growth in the number of vehicles on the road, heavy reliance on coal, use of dirty fuels for residential combustion, and extensive open burning are some of the major factors leading to the progressive deterioration of air quality in developing countries in Asia.

Climate change is one of the most pressing problems facing the global community.

Although tackling the causes of climate change through mitigation is necessary, it is also essential to examine the effect of climate change and what international cooperation can take place to ensure global adaptation measures.

Natural Resources and the Environment: Economics, Law, Politics, and Institutions provides a new approach to the study of environmental and natural resource economics.

In recent years, the private rented sector has overtaken social housing to become the main housing provider with some of the worse housing conditions that are linked to preventable health inequalities.

The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that nuclear power generation facilities produce about 200,000 cubic meters of low and intermediate-level waste each year.

The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice.

After the completion of the Uruguay Round and the adoption of the 1994 agreement establishing the WTO,the place of international trade in the context of the international legal order has radically changed.

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