Environment, transport and planning law: general

This book studies the extent to which nuclear safety issues have contributed towards the stagnation of nuclear power development around the world, and accounts for differences in safety regulations in different countries.

This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources.

This book empirically examines a diverse range of groundwater issues and different approaches to deal with such concerns taking into account responses from government bodies, community organizations, scientists, private sector, and academia.

When studying international law there is often a risk of focusing entirely on the content of international rules (i.

The first book of its kind, Handbook of Chemical Regulations: Benchmarking, Implementation, and Engineering Concepts introduces the concept of global harmonization and interlinks between regulations and examines the reasons behind major requirements for chemical manufacture, article production, and distribution, importation, and usage.

Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, this book provides a unique perspective on the connections between energy justice and human rights.

Multi-owned properties make up an ever-increasing proportion of commercial, tourist and residential development, in both urban and rural landscapes around the world.

This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the degradation process of an ecosystem, drawing upon the Mar Menor as a case study to highlight the damage human pressure causes to the environment.

A detailed overview of the law-and-economics methodology developed and employed by environmental lawyers and policymakers.

Today more than ever, when the world is beset by environmental, social, healthcare and economic challenges, we need courage in our politics, both nationally and globally.

Fundamentals of Public Utilities Management provides practical information for constructing a roadmap for successful compliance with new and ever-changing regulatory frameworks, upgrading and maintenance, and general management of utilities operations.

What happens under international law if a state perishes due to rising sea levels without a successor state being created?

The environmental professional must be educated to be ethical, and more importantly, trained through frequent participatory workshops with real-world scenarios to be able to make the right choices when faced with environmental dilemmas.

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management, enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters.

This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law and policy in Europe.

This book provides anexcellent overview of the legal issues surrounding climate change mitigationand international trade law.

This book explores how compliance with international environmental law has changed over time, offering a critical analysis of its current shifting patterns.

Legal regulation of the environment is often construed as a collection of legislated responses to the problems of modern living.

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

Unpacks key assumptions about the ''environment'', its relationship with violent conflict, and the justification for its protection underlying international law.

The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.

This book states that sustainable development has become an influential discourse worldwide.

Public Security in Federal Polities is the first systematic and methodical study to bring together the fields of security studies and comparative federalism.

Developing CDM Projects in the Western Balkans: Legal and Technical Issues Compared, arises from the professional practical experience gained by an interdisciplinary team of legal and technical experts acting in the framework of the environmental bilateral cooperation performed by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea in the Western Balkan countries, through the "e;Task Force for Central and Eastern Europe"e;.

This book is mainly about the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and the process for its implementation.

Put together by a team of scientists, engineers, regulators, and lawyers, the Chromium(VI) Handbook consolidates the latest literature on this topic.

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.

In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the 'business case' for sustainability.

This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards.

Transport is responsible for a growing share of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, emerging as an economic sector for which technical solutions have shown limited benefits and a shift to electric mobility is seen as an essential part of tackling both problems.

Industrial Safety and Health for Administrative Services constitutes a much-needed source for the identification and prevention of most of the injuries and illnesses occurring in the financial and information sectors.

As we witness a series of social, political, cultural, and economic changes/disruptions this book examines the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the way emerging technologies are impacting our lives and changing society.

In recent years, the safety management field has placed leadership and commitment at the center of effective workplace health and safety programs.

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

The carbon markets are in the middle of a fundamental crisis - a crisis marked by collapsing prices, fleeing actors, and ever increasing greenhouse gas levels.

This book addresses the use of Benedict Spinoza's philosophy in current attempts to elaborate an ecological basis for international environmental law.

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts presents the theoretical basis for the various impacts of wind turbines on humans.

Scientists have long been searching for a unified field theory--one answer to all of the questions about the physical universe.

Many people working toward sustainability recognize the important role of conservation but are inadequately prepared to deal with the large spatial, temporal and complexity scales that are involved in large-scale conservation efforts.

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

PRESENTACIÓN Debido a la pandemia generada por el Covid-19, que trajoconsigo nuevas formas de trabajo y preocupaciones medioambientales hasta ahoradesconocidas, la construcción y edición de este vigésimo primer tomo de lacolección Lecturas sobre derecho del medio ambiente representó un retoparticular para el Grupo de Investigación en Derecho del Medio Ambiente de launiversidad Externado de Colombia que debió atenderlo con profesionalismo ydedicación excepcional.

Birth-based citizenship is widely considered to be the most secure claim to political belonging.

This book focuses on animal laws and animal welfare in major jurisdictions in the world, including the more developed legal regimes for animal protection of the US, UK, Australia, the EU and Israel, and the regulatory regimes still developing in China, South Africa, and Brazil.

Provides a comprehensive review of all topics related to the use and overuse of wildlife for their meat.

Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries around the world.

This volume brings together, in a central text, chapters written by leading scholars working at the intersection of modeling, the natural and social sciences, and public participation.

Environmental health involves the assessment and control of environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.