Environment law

This book provides a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, for students, researchers and policymakers.

This book examines how voluntary sustainability standards can be used to both regulate and coordinate producers in industries.

This book aims to demystify the law for scientists and instructing officials by exploring the science and legal concepts of risk and precaution for national legislation to facilitate safe trade in agricultural products (in compliance with international trade rules).

Analyzing the impact and benefits of nuclear energy on environment, this book examines nuclear treaties in relation to environmental protection, highlights legal framework on non-proliferation and denuclearization, explores treaties on nuclear safety and nuclear security, discusses legal regimes on management of nuclear wastes, assesses the third-party liability regime and discusses the role of IAEA, EURATOM and NEA in regulating nuclear energy.

Proponents of the concept of ecological integrity argue that it is a necessary component of global governance on which the sustainable future of the planet and its inhabitants depends.

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

The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda.

This book presents an overview of the field of environmental law and policies within the European Union, from theoretical foundations to major issues and applied governance solutions.

This book places contemporary problems of ocean use management in historical context beginning with the time of Hugo Grotius, whose seminal 1609 work The Freedom of the Seas was the basis of ocean law for the next three centuries.

Hailed on its first publication as a masterly account detailing a roadmap for compliance with workplace standards, regulations, and rules, Surviving an OSHA Audit: A Management Guide, Second Edition, is specifically designed for managers and other professionals who seek to provide a safe work environment.

The book examines the integration of environmental protection requirements into EU external relations focusing on unilateral, bilateral and inter-regional instruments, which have been less explored than the multilateral dimension of EU environmental policy.

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted.

This book challenges mainstream Western IEJ (intergenerational environmental justice) in a manner that privileges indigenous philosophies and highlights the value these philosophies have for solving global environmental problems.

The first accessible book to discuss all aspects of nuclear power to help combat climate change and lethal air pollution.

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.

The battle is an old one: man versus nature.

Solar geoengineering could reduce climate change, but poses risks.

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward?

This important resource offers a comprehensive overview of the major U.

First published in 1997, this book discusses the interplaying factors environmental issues have on justice and property and other social problems.

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

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

Geoengineering provides new possibilities for humans to deal with dangerous climate change and its effects but at the same time creates new risks to the planet.

This book analyses the case-law of the European Court of Justice on free movement in the energy sector.

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

This study examines the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).

Based on the first edition with extensive analysis of practical applications of environmental risk management and compliance management systems, this second edition of International Environmental Risk Management reflects updates made in the understanding and application of risk management best practices and makes available a frame of reference and systematic approach to environmental and social governance (ESG).

In recent years the concept of the resource "e;nexus"e; has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles.

Composting and Recycling Municipal Solid Waste is a comprehensive guide that identifies, describes, explains, and evaluates the options available when composting and recycling municipal solid waste (MSW).

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

The new edition of this essential book details the present state of EU environmental law as it has developed over the last 50 years.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has a master scheme in mind for the protection and preservation of the environment, for sustainable development of life and improving the ecosystem.

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are designated areas in geographical regions of global socio-ecological significance.

From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines.

The construction of the European Economic Communities in 1950 primarily set out to build an integrated economic zone in which national borders were, to a large extent, overcome.

Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment.

Real Estate Due Diligence is the first textbook on due diligence, the cornerstone of every successful real estate deal.

How do dominant views and arguments about environmental problems traverse and connect international and public law?

This thorough legal resource guides those pushing the frontlines of the nation''s oldest battle: the fight to protect indigenous cultures.

The United States and Canada are salt water neighbors on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans.

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

This classic textbook provides a thorough overview of European private 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.

This book presents an earth science-based overview of the challenges to sustainability.

The most comprehensive guide to environmental impact assesment and the only source with step-by-step procedures, Environmental Assessment tames the complexities of environmental law and makes planning, doing, and reporting easier.

The integration of renewable energy resources into the electricity grid presents an important challenge.

This edited volume presents a comprehensive and comparative view of the law of international watercourses with special reference to the issues facing the Ganges River basin.

This book makes indicators more accessible, in terms of what they are, who created them and how they are used.

Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today's modern extractive agricultural system to a sustainable natural-systems agriculture.