Environment law

This book is based on the assumption that great powers determine global politics and, in this instance, environmental politics.

What kind of decision-making should multinationals engage in to create a sustainable company?

While government enforcement of laws and regulations to control the production of chloroflurocarbons in 1987 has been hailed as exemplifying the precautionary principle, for almost two decades US companies failed to take precautionary measures to prevent chemical emissions, despite the probable risk of stratospheric ozone loss.

This book explores the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of Right to Water and analyzes its values in the context of water policy frameworks of the union governments in India.

The philosophy of Hans Jonas was widely influential in the late twentieth century, warning of the potential dangers of technological progress and its negative effect on humanity and nature.

The opening of space to exploration and use has had profound effects on society.

Coined in the 1970s, the term sustainable development and the ideas behind it have enjoyed varying amounts of popularity over the years.

Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resources leading to scarcity and conflict.

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.

How can we guarantee a right to life or a right to health without also guaranteeing a decent environment in which to exercise these rights?

This book explores the national security implications of the Arab Gulf states'' reliance on desalination plants, for researchers and policy makers.

Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible.

This book, which was first published in 1992 and then updated in 2007, provides a tool for dealing with the legal and institutional aspects of water resources management within national contexts and at the level of transboundary water resources.

A state-of-the-art review of adaptiveness as a key concept in environmental governance literature, complemented by global, regional, and national applications.

This interdisciplinary and in-depth critical analysis of REDD+ offers perspectives on its enforcement under international law.

This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity - of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993.

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 title was first published in 2002.

This book presents case studies on the human rights performance of state-owned enterprises from four Latin American and three European countries, as well as foreign investments by Chinese state-owned enterprises on these continents.

This study makes sense of how the media report on climate change and how this influences science and policy decision-making.

This impressive collection of original essays explores the relationship between social conflict and the environment - a topic that has received little attention within criminology.

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

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.

Originally published in 2004.

This volume unravels the underlying power relations that are masked in the present discourse of ecological sustainability and conflicts over natural resources.

This book presents a novel examination of transboundary water governance, drawing on global case studies and applying new theoretical approaches.

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

This book draws on the experiences of the indigenous movement in Myanmar to explore how the local construction of indigenous identities connects communities to global mechanisms for addressing human rights and environmental issues.

Consider the Consequences of Bringing a Chemical to MarketProduct Stewardship: Life Cycle Analysis and the Environment explores the regulatory and scientific aspects of the life-cycle consequences of bringing a chemical to market.

This book seeks to better understand how International Environmental Law regimes evolve.

As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance.

Based on the lifelong experiences of two authors as supervisors and teachers, the Fourth Edition of this bestseller provides up-to-date information for newly promoted or management-aspiring professionals and engineers in the fields of environmental health, occupational health and safety, water and wastewater treatment, public health, and many others.

This book provides original critical insights into climate politics and new directions for society''s response, for researchers, advanced students and policy makers.

This volume presents the viewpoints of academics, food lawyers, industry and consumer representatives as well as those of EU policymakers on the first ten years of activity of one of the most prominent European agencies.

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.

Most scholars attribute systemic causes of food insecurity to poverty, human overpopulation, lack of farmland, and expansion of biofuel programs.

This book provides a range of perspectives on some of the most pressing contemporary challenges in EU environmental law and governance from some of today's leading European environmental academics and practitioners.

The history of human rights suggests that individuals should be empowered in their natural, political, political, social and economic vulnerabilities.

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that constitute the urban?

Authorities in the fields of environmental and international law and policy, political science, environmental technology, and public administration compare and contrast the ways in which the United States and the European Union handle similar environmental issues.

Humankind benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by ecosystems, and collectively these benefits are known as ecosystem services.

National security in the interest of preserving the well-being of a country is arguably the first and most important responsibility of any democratic government.

This book is based on the assumption that great powers determine global politics and, in this instance, environmental politics.

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

The insurance industry has found itself at the front line of climate change challenges, providing insurance cover in relation to risks associated with climate change.

One of the principal arguments put forth by Brexit supporters is that by freeing the UK from the stranglehold of EU law, the country will be able to expand its markets through increased bilateral trade and enhance economic growth.

This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources.