Environment law

Over the last decade the regulatory evaluation of environmental and public health risks has been one of the most legally controversial areas of contemporary government activity.

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.

This book examines the imperative role of global environmental governance, and the need to incorporate corporate environmental accountability and mechanisms for enforcement, to effectively address the global environmental crisis.

Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context.

China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower.

Environmental mediation continues to develop and evolve in different jurisdictions across the world in order to prevent potential environmental conflicts or to resolve the conflicts while avoiding the inherent drawbacks of an adjudicated solution.

Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions.

This book introduces the various aspects of international farm animal protection and wildlife conservation through the lenses of food safety and environmental protection law.

Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) is one of the most holistic approaches to protecting marine and coastal ecosystems as it recognizes the need to protect entire marine ecosystems instead of individual species.

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

As the baby boom generation ages, it is crucial that designers understand all they can about bringing this group, as well as all others, design that will offer function, aesthetics, and quality of life.

Sentencing guidelines impose tough penalties for health and safety and environmental offences: how can you avoid them?

Analysis of the law and politics of regulatory competence allocation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

This book examines the integration of human rights and environmental standards within international investment agreements (IIAs).

A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

Economic Theory for Environmentalists is a much-needed and heralded new book that examines the implications of neoclassical economic theory and how it relates to the environment and environmental activity.

The Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.

During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world.

The Bhagirathi-Hooghly Basin in India is one of the most densely populated regions in the world and is undergoing rapid transformation of its natural landscape induced by human interventions, such as mushrooming of dams and barrages, deforestation, and urbanization.

In the wake of the Clean Air Amendments of 1970 in the United States, sources of emissions could be held accountable for the degradation of air quality in the local environment.

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "e;green technology.

Connie Kelly Tang and Lei Zhang have provided a holistic coverage of the entire surface transportation project and program development process from the beginning of planning though environmental approval, design, right-of way acquisition, construction to operations and maintenance.

This book explores a disciplinary matrix for the study of the law and governance concerning mining and minerals from a global perspective.

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

Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of animal rights.

First published in 1998, this volume looks at the potential and motivation for companies and industries to go green.

Although concerns over the ecological impacts of pesticides gave rise to the environmental movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, since that time, pesticide use and its effects have been largely ignored by the law and by legal scholars.

Through a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches, this book explores the role of international environmental law in protecting and conserving plants.

This is the first comprehensive review of the Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) established in 2000.

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

The relationship between environmentally sustainable development and company and business law has emerged in recent years as a matter of major concern for many scholars, policy-makers, businesses and nongovernmental organisations.

Energy security is known for its 'slippery' nature and subsequent broad range of definitions.

The pollution state of various resources has deteriorated to such an extent that survival of human life is at stake.

This study makes sense of how the media report on climate change and how this influences science and policy decision-making.

This important new text introduces conservation criminology as the interdisciplinary study of environmental exploitation and risks at the intersection of human and natural systems.

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

Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the 'Continent for Science and Peace' in a time of planetary environmental change.

From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us-and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself.

Quantitative Risk Assessment for Environmental and Occupational Health, Second Edition features twice as many risk analysis models with complete examples as the previous edition.

This book develops an analytical framework for water law reform, using case studies across four jurisdictions, for academics, students and policy makers.

The direction of higher education is at a crossroads against a background of mounting sustainability-related issues and uncertainties.

For the last few thousand years, humanity has struggled to achieve sustainable development.

This book offers two major proposals for environmental law reform, laying the groundwork for a third generation of environmental law.

"e;This book provides up-to-date knowledge of space debris and valuable insights on how to grapple with this issue from legal, technical, economical and societal aspects.

The adoption of administrative procedures in global governance has the potential to foster proper consideration of marginalized actors' interests, yet risks entrenching the dominance of the well-resourced and powerful.

This book investigates how sustainability informs key principles and concepts of domestic and international law.

During the early development and throughout the short history of green/conservation criminology, limited attention has been directed toward quantitative analyses of relevant environmental crime, law and justice concerns.