Environment law

Bringing together contributions from diplomats, UN agency officials, lawyers and academics, this book provides insight into the evolution of international environmental law, diplomacy and negotiating techniques.

While environmental catastrophes can be naturally occurring, often they are the result of criminal intent or malfeasance.

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.

Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries around the world.

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

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

This is a companion book to Earthscan's 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development.

Leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of transnational efforts to respond to climate change, for researchers, graduate students and policy makers.

Do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions affect human rights?

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.

Research Ethics for Environmental Health explores the ethical basis of environmental health research and related aspects of risk assessment and control.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

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

This book delves into the major developments triggered by the hydrocarbon discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean over the last twenty years, focusing on maritime boundary delimitation.

Issues of the environment and its sustainability are linked to those of global warming, climate change and loss of biodiversity.

Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes, this book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world.

Summarises and places in context the main provisions of the key documents in EC environmental law.

Sustainability Assessment is a comprehensive compilation of all the known policy factors related to sustainability.

Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world.

Intersecting forms of oppression, including subordination based on race, class, gender, and indigeneity, produce environmental injustice and unsustainable development.

The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions.

In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights to the Colorado River in the USA.

Hailed on first publication as a masterful review of the topic, The Science of Air: Concepts and Applications quickly became a standard resource in the field.

This book presents a range of insights on the relationship between food and law.

This book presents the history of, and current approaches to, farmer-breeder collaboration in plant breeding, situating this work in the context of sustainable food systems, as well as national and international policy and law regimes.

In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can be used to analyse the governance of renewable natural resources.

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

The World Heritage community is currently adopting policies to mainstream human rights as part of a wider sustainability agenda.

Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances.

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

Climate Change Law and Policy in the Middle East and North AfricaRegion provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of the guiding principles of climate change law and policy in the MENA region.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

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

This book exposes the dysfunction of environmental law and offers a transformative approach based on the public trust doctrine.

Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women's lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes.

Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world.

This 2005 text discusses the US Toxics Release Inventory Program and its impacts as a case study of legislation.

Septic Systems Handbook, Second Edition covers all aspects of such topics as septic tanks, perk tests, leachlines, and onsite disposal technologies.

Bringing together the world's leading experts in Urban Analysis, this remarkable and critically acclaimed volume applies the theories and models of Atsuyuko Okabe, Japan's preeminent spatial analyst, to case studies in urban planning, transport, administration, and public health in the context of the highly advanced Japanese planning system.

Understand the current concept of wetland and methods for identifying, describing, classifying, and delineating wetlands in the United States with Wetland Indicators - capturing the current state of science's role in wetland recognition and mapping.

Increasingly, environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess.

Written at a level that is accessible to students in all disciplines, Introduction to Environmental Management, Second Edition translates complex environmental issues into practical and understandable terms.

This book develops new perspectives on the cultural politics of climate change and its implications for responding to this challenge.

This collection seeks to illustrate the state of the art in territoriological research, both empirical and theoretical.

This handbook explores, contextualises and critiques the relationship between anthropocentrism - the idea that human beings are socially and politically at the centre of the cosmos - and international law.

Written at a level that is accessible to students in all disciplines, Introduction to Environmental Management, Second Edition translates complex environmental issues into practical and understandable terms.