This book is about how coast guards are becoming states' foremost tool to manage changes occurring in ocean politics generally, and in the Arctic specifically.
Seit Mitte der 70er Jahre läßt sich in der Unternehmenspraxis eine zunehmende Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der betrieblichen Umweltkostenrechnung beobachten.
Das steigende Güterverkehrsaufkommen in der Europäischen Union führt zu Umweltbeeinträchtigungen, von denen der Alpenraum in besonderem Maße betroffen ist.
The consequences of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species in non-native ecosystems is an area of growing interest for international policymakers and regulators.
International Aviation Labour Law explores the status quo of the international regulation of labour and employment within the air transport industry and provides a detailed analysis of the regulatory endeavours undertaken at the international, European and domestic level to harmonise aviation labour regulations and ensure adequate labour standards for aircrew members.
Transnational Food Security addresses food security from an international relations, political economy and legal perspective analysing the relationship between food security and the environment and climate change, trade, finance and contracts, and the intersection between food and human rights.
At a time when Europeans across the continent are focused on the EU's future direction, this book provides an important contribution to the current debate.
This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity - of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993.
"e;Knowledge commons"e; describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing and, in some cases, creation, of information, science, knowledge, data, and other types of intellectual and cultural resources.
Kulturgüter bedürfen auf Grund ihrer Einmaligkeit eines besonderen Schutzes, der nicht allein mit finanziellen und tatsächlichen Mitteln, sondern auch auf rechtlicher Ebene durchgesetzt werden muss.
There is much debate about the scope of international law, its compatibility with individual state practice, its enforceability and the recent and limited degree to which it is institutionalized.
This book focuses on the experiences of tourists visiting nature-based destinations, exploring current knowledge and providing insights into conceptual issues through the use of empirical evidence from five continents.
The Human Right to Water and Its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories provides an overview and examination of the human right to water as determined under international human rights law.
This book explores the regulation of pesticides in the European Union in order to reveal the complex, controversial, and contested nature of an assessment system proudly declared by the EU to be 'the strictest in the world'.
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?
Die Herausgeber und Autoren der Festgabe ehren einen Juristen, Wissenschaftler und Hochschullehrer, der maßgeblich zur Ökologisierung und Internationalisierung der Umweltrechtswissenschaft beigetragen hat.
Seit Jahrhunderten wird Drachenblut, das geheimnisvolle rote Harz tropischer Bäume, als wertvolles Heilmittel in traditionellen Kulturen rund um den Globus geschätzt.
The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international community to live up to the challenges of a planet that is out of control.
Vor kurzem schenkten die Medien einem Fall der Restitution eines während des Nationalsozialismus entzogenen Kunstwerks besondere Aufmerksamkeit: der Rückgabe der "Berliner Straßenszene" von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner durch das Land Berlin an die Erben des jüdischen Schuhfabrikanten Alfred Hess.
The right of indigenous peoples under international human rights law to give or withhold their Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) to natural resource extraction in their territories is increasingly recognized by intergovernmental organizations, international bodies, and industry actors, as well as in the domestic law of some States.
Crimes Against the Environment explains the seriousness of the threat posed by pollution, its roots, how it has evolved, how it differs across the planet, and how society has endeavored to create and enforce laws directed at its control.
This book examines the increasingly prevalent issues around sewerage and sewage and explores what environmental health practitioners (EHPs) can contribute to addressing this issue and what further action is required.
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.
With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangible cultural heritage is of growing concern to global cities.
The field of human rights and the environment has grown phenomenally during the last few years and this textbook will be one of the first to encourage students to think critically about how many environmental issues lead to a violation of existing rights.
The purpose of this book is to consider the neighbour conflict arising between airports and neighbouring owners of land, particularly with residential uses, as well as to assess the existing solutions applied to manage or resolve that conflict.
Die vom Institut für Kirchenrecht und rheinische Kirchenrechtsgeschichte an der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln betreute Sammlung "Entscheidungen in Kirchensachen seit 1946" bietet die Judikatur staatlicher Gerichte zum allgemeinen Religionsrecht und zum Verhältnis von Kirche und Staat und ist die einzige ihrer Art im deutschsprachigen Raum.
Over the past decade, the greening of industry has become both an issue in scientific and political debate and a generic substantive development in industry itself.
Nachdem es zwischenzeitlich fast keine aktuelle Ausbildungsliteratur zum Umweltstrafrecht mehr gab, sind in jüngerer Zeit wieder Lehrbücher (neu) erschienen.
Based on the first edition with extensive analysis of practical applications of environmental risk management and compliance management systems, this second edition of International Environmental Risk Management reflects updates made in the understanding and application of risk management best practices and makes available a frame of reference and systematic approach to environmental and social governance (ESG).