Environment law

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

At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world's leaders constructed a new "e;sustainable development"e; paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development.

Safety professionals communicate, directly and indirectly with a large number of employees and others on a daily basis.

Wenn Altlasten im Kontext von Abfallentsorgung und Bodenverunreinigungen öffentlich diskutiert werden, haben sowohl Juristen als auch Nicht-Juristen meist eine allgemeine Vorstellung von der Materie.

New Paradigms in Environmental Biomonitoring Using Plants highlights and explores the importance of biomonitoring methodologies and the latest updates in the field.

The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis, particularly the USA, China, India, Japan and EU countries, but also developing countries having to boost their economic growth precisely when more powerful economies will prevent them from using the limited supply of fossil energy.

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.

The ecosystem approach, broadly understood as a legal and governance strategy for integrated environmental and biodiversity management, has been adopted within a wide variety of international environmental legal regimes and provides a narrative, a policy approach and in some cases legally binding obligations for States to implement what has been called a 'new paradigm' of environmental management.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) represents one of the most successful examples of multilateral treaty making in the modern era.

A novel theoretical framework to analyse the effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs, including ISO 14001.

Real Estate Due Diligence is the first textbook on due diligence, the cornerstone of every successful real estate deal.

There isn't one conversation about animal ethics.

The Land is the Source of Law brings an inter-jurisdictional dimension to the field of indigenous jurisprudence: comparing Indigenous legal regimes in New Zealand, the USA and Australia, it offers a 'dialogical encounter with an Indigenous jurisprudence' in which individuals are characterised by their rights and responsibilities into the Land.

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.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

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

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

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level.

While water is an increasingly scarce resource, most existing methods to allocate it are neither economically nor environmentally efficient.

The first accessible book to discuss all aspects of nuclear power to help combat climate change and lethal air pollution.

This book explores various contemporary aspects of the growing field of housing, land and property (HLP) rights.

Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity.

The role of law in responding to global environmental problems and the interplay between different levels of regulation and governance is becoming increasingly relevant in the field of liability and reparation for environmental damage.

Our global food system is undergoing rapid change.

This edited collection of articles addresses aspects of medical care in which human error is associated with unanticipated adverse outcomes.

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

Die Debatte um den Schutz des Klimasystems wird seit einiger Zeit auch vor den Gerichten ausgetragen.

Playing with Fire chronicles the ongoing struggle facing Louisiana families trying to live and work against the backdrop of corrupt politicians and corporate greed.

This is a major compendium of the existing knowledge of the ecology and management of tidal marshes by some of the leading experts in the field.

La Ley de Cambio Climático y Transición Energética es la primera ley estatal en nuestro país aprobada para afrontar el doble reto de la neutralidad climática y de la transformación integral del sistema energético.

Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives and the competing priorities between developed and developing economies.

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward?

Examining institutions rather than themes, this critical book provides a comprehensive survey of the inter-relationship between trade-induced economic growth and the environment and its impact on the global quest for sustainable development.

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

On the 11th of March 2011, an earthquake registering 9.

Whales and elephants are iconic giants of the marine and terrestrial animal world.

Geopolitical changes combined with the increasing urgency of ambitious climate action have re-opened debates about justice and international climate policy.

Presents cutting-edge insights into adapting institutions that build social-ecological resilience to complex multi-scale environmental change.

The book examines the well-established field of 'law and development' and asks whether the concept of development and discourses on law and development have outlived their usefulness.

Poor Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) practice leads to poorly planned projects, and ultimately poor environmental protection.

In the context of increasing division and segregation in cities across the world, along with pressing concerns around austerity, environmental degradation, homelessness, violence, and refugees, this book pursues a multidisciplinary approach to spatial justice in the city.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

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.

Safety professionals must prepare every day to safeguard their employees in the workplace.

Roberts' dictionary is a comprehensive yet concise guide to the various legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and financial abbreviations, acronyms, terms and phrases which define the oil and gas industry today.

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order.

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.

Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas.

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