Environment law

Canada has over-promised and under-delivered on climate change, setting weak goals and allowing carve-outs, exceptions, and exemptions to undermine its climate policies.

This book questions the use of salvage law as legal regulatory framework for the remuneration of environmental services in salvage operations, proposing that such services should be based on direct contracting between commercial salvors and coastal States.

This book applies concepts from ethics, justice, and political philosophy to five sets of contemporary energy problems cutting across time, economics, politics, geography, and technology.

What is the state of current European governance on new and emerging technologies, and where is it going?

In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework.

Environmental crimes are primarily driven by financial motives.

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.

Integrated water resources management (IWRM) advocates a coordinated approach for managing water resources in a way that balances social and economic needs with care for nature.

Environmental pollution is one of humanity's most pressing issues and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

This book is a review of the development of the WTO dispute resolution procedure and the power and influence it has gained over the practises of the member countries as well as in other international treaties.

La idea central del libro es la de articular la existencia de la obligación positiva a cargo del Estado de protección del ambiente y su responsabilidad por los daños ecológicos y ambientales que se causen, bien sea por su propia actividad, por inactividad, o por su insuficiente (ineficiente) cumplimiento de las misiones inherentes al deber de protección.

A detailed exploration of the variety of threats that endangered species are facing around the world, whether they are due to human impact or so-called natural causes.

Industrial Safety and Health for Administrative Services constitutes a much-needed source for the identification and prevention of most of the injuries and illnesses occurring in the financial and information sectors.

This book defines and discusses how the field of Enterprise Architecture (EA) can be incorporated into the design of Enterprise Geographic Information Systems (EGIS).

This is an important contribution to the development of international environmental law, a field which as yet has no comprehensive codification but has been evolving through many treaties, state practice, regional arrangements, and doctrinal development by tribunals.

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book assesses the status of groundwater models and defines models and modeling needs in the 21st century.

From the time it was first published in 1998, Shipping and the Environment has been the leading text on international and US law and practice in this field.

Entlang der Wanderrouten der meisten Thunfischarten sind viele Lander an dieser, sowohl aus wirtschaftlicher als auch aus okologischer Sicht wichtigen naturlichen Ressource interessiert.

Forensic Forestry: A Guidebook for Foresters on the Witness Stand is a one-of-a-kind, hands-on resource for those forestry and land use professionals called upon to work on legal cases and testify in court.

This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples' human rights and for sound national and international legal governance.

Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives and the competing priorities between developed and developing economies.

The provision of an adequate means of escape from fire is fundamental to the design of new buildings and to the alteration, change of use or extension of existing buildings.

This easy-to-read, concise book is filled with examples, hints, reminders and reviews designed to help engineers and scientists develop effective writing skills.

The monograph analyzes international relations in the Arctic from two perspectives: cooperation and competition.

Do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions affect human rights?

Sustainability is not unique to health, yet sustainability is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values.

This volume examines the range of Non-Trade Concerns (NTCs) that may conflict with international economic rules and proposes ways to protect them within international law and international economic law.

Mentoring Teachers provides practical guidance for teacher mentors, directly addressing common queries and concerns they may have while acting as a mentor within a diverse range of educational contexts.

On the 10th of October 2002 the International Court of Justice delivered the Bakassi decision, which, amongst other things, excised the resource rich land and maritime territory of Bakassi from Nigeria and transferred its legal title to Cameroon.

Company law can and should act as a bridge (rather than a barrier) to progressive corporate climate action.

This volume examines the range of Non-Trade Concerns (NTCs) that may conflict with international economic rules and proposes ways to protect them within international law and international economic law.

Mining and Energy Law is a thorough examination of the contemporary mining and energy law in Australia.

Contemporary changes in law and policy at the global level to efficiently answer to environmental and social issues correspond to the traditional approach of limiting the regulatory and policy changes to a singular field or discipline: tackling the inherent unsustainability of corporate laws or incentivising the offering of sustainable finance to stimulate the transition towards sustainable practices.

This book works to build trust, consensus, and capacity to enhance understanding through a water conflict management framework designed to bolster collaborative skills.

Environmental Management System ISO 14001:2004 provides the information and practical know-how required to facilitate a smooth adoption and incorporation of the latest revisions and enhancements put forth by the International Organization for Standardization.

Enriches our understanding of how individuals, groups, and institutions can effectively cooperate to govern shared spaces and resources.

The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations.

A comparative analysis via legal transplant theory on how England, America and China guarantee the right to environmental information.

This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face.

Sustainable development is now widely accepted as a political objective in the UK and elsewhere but to what extent has the UK's rhetoric on sustainable development become a reality?

This is a practical guidebook to current CERCLA litigation, written by an experienced attorney who specializes in this area of law.

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

In anticipation of the UN Conference of the Law of the Sea taking place in 1973, Dr Kasahara and Dr Burke of the University of Washington first published North Pacific Fisheries Management earlier that year.

This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have led to a change in the way in which the USDA supports farmers from diverse backgrounds.

Statutory Nuisance: Law and Practice offers a comprehensive resource for practitioners in the legal and environmental health professions, guiding the reader through the complex practical and legal issues associated with statutory nuisance.

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

This volume will be an essential reference for those involved in environmental and energy research.

This book examines how litigation over climate change shapes the choices of governments, corporations and the public regarding mitigation and adaptation.

"e;Live and Let Others Live"e; is profoundly relevant amid current debates on sustainability and environmental conservation.

This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies.