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.

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America.

A clear and urgent call for the national, social, and individual changes required to prevent catastrophic climate change.

It is increasingly argued that a focus on environmental sustainability is fundamental to effective and equitable governance, and ultimately for the good of mankind.

The EU has been the region of the world where the most climate policies have been implemented, and where practical policy experimentation in the field of the environment and climate change has been taking place at a rapid pace over the last twenty-five years.

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

Environmental policy is often practiced reactively with each crisis addressed as an isolated event.

Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies.

This book addresses the production practices employed in the production of food animals and animal products that enable marketers to sell a variety of products to meet consumer demand.

This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law and policy in Europe.

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

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.

Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions.

This book discusses management and governance initiatives undertaken by agencies and stakeholders towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) in the Southeast Asian region, specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore.

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 analyses the legal challenges facing international cooperation on water management in the twenty-first century.

There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature.

Duvanova examines the development of business interest representation in the postcommunist countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

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

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

Questions the doctrinal construction of environmental law and looks for innovative legal approaches to ecological sustainability.

This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture.

The era of eco-crises signified by the Anthropocene trope is marked by rapidly intensifying levels of complexity and unevenness, which collectively present unique regulatory challenges to environmental law and governance.

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change.

While the world's oceans cover more than seventy percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in International Relations (IR), being treated either as a corollary of land or as time.

Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures is a long-standing, must-have reference book for practising environmental health officers in local government and in private practice.

This book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the integration of environmental policies into US free trade agreements.

Qu'est-ce que l'air en droit ?

This book critically explores the legal tools, concepts, principles and instruments, as well as cross-cutting issues, that comprise the field of international environmental law.

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

Are we environmentally victimizing, perhaps even poisoning, our minority and low-income citizens?

This new edition serves both as a reference guide for the experienced professional and as a preparation source for those desiring certifications.

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

This book provides a blueprint for an International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ).

Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy.

There is growing acceptance that the progress delivered under the Millennium Development Goal target for drinking water and sanitation has been inequitable.

The international community has generated several hundred multilateral environmental agreements, yet it has been far less successful in developing means to ensure that contracting parties honour them in practice.

This book explores the formation of small and medium-sized construction company's (SME) compliance with health and safety issues in developing countries.

This book will address concepts and techniques for preparation and disposal of low- (LLW) and intermediate-level (ILW) radioactive waste from the nuclear industry, the weapons industry, university labs, research institutes, and from the commercial industry.

This book examines the current state of economic regulation of renewable electricity and explores the possibilities for future harmonized EU regulation.

Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management.

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.

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice is the much-needed complementary volume to Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction (CRC Press, May 2017).

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins.

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

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

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.