Environment law

This is the first book to address and review the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018.

There are few topics as controversial as globalisation.

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Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis argues that the popularity of the term "e;climate fiction"e; has paradoxically exhausted the term's descriptive power and that it has developed into a black box containing all kinds of fictions which depict climatic events and has consequently lost its true significance.

This book focuses on administrative regulation in environmental law.

This book covers the design, implementation, and auditing of structured occupational health and safety management systems (SMS), sometimes referred to as safety programs.

In the context of the current financial crisis, and at a time of deep global change, growing attention is paid to the global norms and ethical values that could underpin future global policy.

This book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins as vague political slogans reflecting fears about environmental hazards to their embodiment in enforceable laws.

Katrina's arrival on the Gulf Coast was a long time in coming.

This book explores the complex relationship between human rights and environmental protection.

Dominant governance theories are drawn primarily from Euro-American sources, including emergent theories of network and collaborative governance.

This landmark book focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and on their role in struggles for the right to the city.

Legal and environmental concerns related to Indian law and tribal lands remain an understudied branch of both indigenous law and environmental law.

South Africa is widely recognised as a middle-income, industrialised nation, but it also ranks amongst the most unequal countries in the world in terms of its income distribution and human development.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

This book explores the regulatory challenges posed by the changing landscape of electricity trade to the multilateral trading system.

An environmental assessment must be performed whenever a property transaction takes place.

International Encyclopaedia of Environmental Laws have occupied the centre: stage among all efforts towards global environmental protection and consecration.

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 edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.

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

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).

Doing Environmental Ethics explains how we may transform our fossil-fuel-burning economy, which continues to intensify our ecological crisis, into a circular and ecological economy.

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

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming.

Every organization must comply with occupational health and safety regulations.

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.

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.

This original contribution to the field is the first to bring economic sociology theory to the study of federal land exchanges.

Environmental decisions present themselves every day in forms large and small.

The economic paradigms currently dominating the world are not sustainable.

The global demand for clean, renewable energy has rapidly expanded in recent years and will likely continue to escalate in the decades to come.

Access to genetic resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) has been promoted under the Convention on Biological Diversity, with the aim of combining biodiversity conservation goals with economic development.

The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future.

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

This book re-considers property law for a future of environmental disruption.

This book explores the process of shipbreaking in developing countries, with a particular focus on Bangladesh.

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

Environmental Careers presents a broad-based, yet concise survey of employment opportunities in the environmental field.

In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to access adequate food.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

 Esta obra contiene los elementos básicos del derecho minero y una exposición amplia de la normatividad ambiental aplicable, que orientará al lector en el planteamiento de soluciones a problemas jurídicos relacionados con esta materia, especialmente con titulación, instituciones competentes, procedimientos administrativos, registro minero nacional, ordenamiento territorial, entre otros.

A cautionary tale for the many other jurisdictions around the world that are resisting the transition to clean energy resources.

Explores the key international treaty instruments regulating species conservation and habitat protection, and the mechanisms available to make them work.

There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property.

In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court.

REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology presents a thorough and comprehensive legal analysis on the status of nanoscale chemicals under the EU's REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction) regulation, asking whether it effectively safeguards human health and environmental protection.

This book is about fiduciary law's influence on the financial economy's environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards sustainability.