Environment, transport and planning law: general

This is the first comprehensive legal treatise on US food law for lawyers, judges, students, and consumer advocates.

The book examines the narratives of climate change which have developed and which are currently evolving in three areas: law, fiction and activism.

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).

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

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

47 auteurs se sont réunis pour rendre hommage à la Professeure Anne-Christine Favre, une référence incontournable du droit de l'environnement, autrice de nombreuses publications, longtemps membre et présidente de la Commission fédérale en matière de bruit et correspondante en Suisse pour le Centre international de droit comparé de l'environnement (CIDCE).

From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us-and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself.

This book focusses on the developing role that the city currently plays in dealing with the effects of climate change and the instruments that can be utilised to make them truly green.

This encyclopedia serves as a tool to support universities across the world to implement sustainable development in higher education in a number of key areas, spread over 5 Sections:1.

This book on Environmental Jurisprudence of Courts of India provides a general overview of the enactments passed by the Indian Parliament for environmental protection such as the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, Wild Life (Protection Act), 1972, The Public Liability Insurance Act, (1991), The Biological Diversity Act, 2002, and National Environment Policy 2006.

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

This book examines how nature is constructed through law, building on the constructivist concept that ''nature'' is a self-perpetuating, self-reinforcing social creation.

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability.

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.

Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case.

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

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.

Hazardous Waste Compliance concentrates on government regulations as they relate to hazardous waste and other hazardous materials.

This book covers several dimensions of disaster studies as an emerging discipline.

The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth.

This volume advances the claim that the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) adopted in 2001 is the only existing international agreement with the potential to promote food security, conservation of biodiversity and equity.

The volume serves as an important mile-stone in the process called "e;second track"e; dialogue and cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian academics on crucial shared problems, the resolution of which is vital to the peace process.

Approximately 40 per cent of value of international trade comes from goods carried by air, and the consequences of goods being damaged, destroyed or delayed can be serious, substantial, and perhaps unforeseen.

Cargo management, especially in the maritime sphere, plays a vital role in the transfer of goods between seller and buyer.

This book is a compilation of case studies from different countries and covers contemporary technologies including electric vehicles and solar thermal power plants.

A concise collation of the relevant materials for each relevant stage of an appeal.

Explores the importance of policy evaluation in polycentric climate governance using the European Union as an example.

Ausgehend von der Feststellung eines verbreiteten Scheinkonsenses bezüglich der Begründung und Beurteilung umweltpolitischer Maßnahmen im Rahmen der "traditionellen" Umweltökonomik untersucht die Studie den grundsätzlichen Zusammenhang von Umweltökonomik, Umweltpolitik und Marktwirtschaft.

There are few topics as controversial as globalisation.

Reveals the diverse ways people are using the law to restore rivers in the western United States and around the world.

Bereits in früheren Jahrhunderten war die Balkanhalbinsel häufig Schauplatz kriegerischer Handlungen, denen historische und religiöse Objekte zum Opfer fielen.

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Energy security is known for its 'slippery' nature and subsequent broad range of definitions.

The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect?

This book explores the methods through which international law and its associated innovative global governance mechanisms can strengthen, foster and scale up the impacts of treaty regimes and international law on the ability to implement global governance mechanisms.

Waste management poses increasing challenges to both the protection of the environment and to human health.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of land law for Arab Palestinians under Israeli law.

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.

Prompt engineering engages as a transformative approach to enhancing interaction, creativity, and innovation.

Examines critical links between local content requirements and the application of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets.

Congress has been active in establishing federal policy for the agricultural sector on an ongoing basis since the 1930s.

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

Introduction to International Environmental Law provides a concise overview of international environmental law and the relations and agreements among nations to facilitate environmental protection.

Biomethane through resource circularity: Research, Technology and Practices is an invaluable resource for researchers, policy makers, implementers and PhD and Marsters level students in universities analyzing the present status, waste biomass including agro wastes, success in experimentation & commercial production, future needs and other relevant areas.