Environment law

The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently.

Coastal Zone Management Handbook comprises the first complete manual on coastal resource planning and management technology.

This book takes a practical approach to understanding and describing collaborative governance for resolving environmental problems.

This book proposes a conceptualisation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements as a form of International Organisations, exploring the ways in which they have expanded over time by discussing the nuances of authority in global governance.

Transparency in the regulation of water utilities is essential in order to ensure quality and fairness.

A Vital Explanation of Water Law and PolicyBecause demand for and access to quality water far exceeds the current supply, it is increasingly critical to understand the state and federal laws and policies that govern water rights.

This volume brings together leading research articles in to the theory, research findings and applications of modern dispute resolution.

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

The human use of nature is a polarizing topic in India and across the globe, often perceived as contradictory to traditional exclusionary conservation.

In Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Environmental Liability, experts who held leadership positions and worked directly with the UNCC draw on their experience with the institution and provide a comprehensive view of the United Nations Compensation Comission and its work in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

This book uses spatio-temporal analysis to understand urbanisation in Indian cities and explain the concept and impact of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

This book is a comprehensive study of differential treatment for developing countries in international environmental law.

Regulation, Enforcement and Governance in Environmental Law is an updated edition of Richard Macrory's most influential writings.

Offering an introduction to students on the most essential elements of EU energy law and policy, this volume will be the go-to text for those seeking knowledge of EU energy regulation and its objectives, as well as an overview of energy law.

This edited collection analyzes the appropriate balance between conservation and development and the place for participation and popular protest in environmental assessment.

This book has 18 case study chapters investigating various injury scenarios through the use of a Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) analysis.

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially situated.

This book provides an analysis of the European policy approach to combined heat and power (CHP), a highly efficient technology used by all EU Member States for the needs of generating electricity and heat.

Anthropocene is the proposed name for the new geological epoch in which humans have overwhelming impact on planetary processes.

This book explores African domestic and regional responses and approaches to environmental protection and sustainability.

This book is a collection of judgments drawn from the innovative Wild Law Judgment Project.

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.

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

This book examines the diverse use of Indigenous customary rights in modern landscapes from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Since time immemorial indigenous people have engaged in legal relationships with other-than-human-persons.

Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law.

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

This is a comprehensive reference work, textbook, and sourcebook on the environmental education policies implemented in industrialized and developing nations since initiation of the benchmark UNEP-UNESCO International Environmental Education Programme at the Belgrade Workshop in 1975.

An evidence-based policy summary to help governments, local authorities and businesses meet internationally agreed environmental goals.

This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics.

Water pollution law is the most developed of the pollution control systems.

This collection clarifies the background of land and property problems in conflict-affected settings, and explores appropriate policy measures for peace-building.

Environmental engineers work to increase the level of health and happiness in the world by designing, building, and operating processes and systems for water treatment, water pollution control, air pollution control, and solid waste management.

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Development and execution of a successful ES&H program in today's profit-driven business climate is challenging and complex.

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

This book provides an original and groundbreaking account of the applicability and key contributions of international law to small-scale fisheries, a fisheries subsector that has been historically overlooked by governments and international legal scholarship.

Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects.

This book explains the drivers and implications of unconventional gas at regional, national and global scales with case studies and in-depth analyses.

The most significant overhaul of the U.

Is there a future for the law?

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

This book presents and defends an interpretation of the precautionary principle from the perspective of philosophy of science.

Fundamentals of Public Utilities Management provides practical information for constructing a roadmap for successful compliance with new and ever-changing regulatory frameworks, upgrading and maintenance, and general management of utilities operations.

This volume establishes a theoretical framework for exploring the role of host state legal systems (courts and bureaucracies) in mediating relations between foreign investment, civil society and government actors.

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or broadly support livelihoods.

Das Sächsische Wassergesetz hat mit der jüngsten Novellierung eine grundlegende Überarbeitung und Anpassung an die geänderten Vorschriften des Wasserhaushaltsgesetzes erfahren.

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

Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's development and stressing key principles, processes, and landmark cases.