Environment, transport and planning law: general

"Im Untergrund" erzählt die Geschichte eines Aktivisten, der seine Karriere dem kompromisslosen Kampf für Tierrechte opfert und schließlich vor juristischer Verfolgung untertauchen muss.

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This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers.

International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability provides a clear and concise insight into the relationship between the institutions that govern foreign investment, sustainable development and the rules and regulations that administer natural resources.

This groundbreaking book collects contributions from many of the world's leading climate and energy law scholars and provides the first major study of national Climate Change Acts.

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

This book is based on EU-funded project PLANTFOODSEC, covering intentional and unintentional threats to plant biosecurity and to food safety areas.

by Elisabeth Mann Borgese Founder and Honorary President International Ocean Institute Adalberto Vallega has been, for decades, a master and great teacher of integrated coastal management and Mediterranean cooperation.

The insurance industry has found itself at the front line of climate change challenges, providing insurance cover in relation to risks associated with climate change.

The Legal Aspects of Industrial Hygiene and Safety explores various legal issues that are often encountered by Industrial Hygiene and Safety managers during their careers.

An objective and rigorous analysis of climate change liability law in eighteen jurisdictions around the world.

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.

This book addresses the issue of Indigenous peoples' participation in genetic resource access and benefit-sharing and associated traditional knowledge for self-determination.

This title highlights the pertinent issue of climate change and its management using sustainable sources of finance.

"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.

Tierversuche, Massentierhaltung, Pelztierzucht oder die traditionelle Fuchsjagd mit Hunden - es gibt vieles, gegen das britische Tierrechts-Aktivisten zu Felde ziehen.

This book intends to inform the key participants in extractive projects - namely, the communities, the host governments and the investors - about good practice for effective community engagement, based on analysis of international standards and expectations, lessons from selected case-studies and innovations in public participation.

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 book documents the United States Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) shift from a rancher-dominated agency to an energy-dominated agency.

Estimating the Human Cost of Transportation Accidents: Methodologies and Policy Implications discusses the estimation methods needed to determine the monetary value of loss of life and quality of life when evaluating transportation safety programs, policies and projects.

This book investigates the ethical values that inform the global carbon integrity system, and reflects on alternative norms that could or should do so.

Circular Economy in the Construction Industry is an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, implementers and PhD and Masters-level students in universities analyzing the present status of Construction and Demolition Wastes (C&DW) management, materials development utilizing slag, fly ash, HDPE fibre, geo-wastes, and other wastes, green concrete, soil stabilization, resource circulation in construction sectors, success in experimentation & commercial production, future needs, and future research areas.

This book summarizes assessments of the Paris Agreement to provide an excellent introduction to this research field.

For the last few thousand years, humanity has struggled to achieve sustainable development.

Assesses the existing compliance system of the UN climate regime and examines the key challenges for the emerging post-2012 system.

This book presents valuable and recent lessons learned regarding the links between natural resources management, from a Socio-Ecological perspective, and the biodiversity conservation in Mexico.

An investigation of how climate change affects maritime boundaries, suggesting ways for the international law community to mitigate the effects.

Based on the swisspeace annual conference 2012, the publication examines the delicate balance between external interventions and locally-led initiatives.

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Land Law is all about, Beginning Land Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

Agricultural, natural resource, and environmental problems are becom- ing increasingly interdependent.

This book is a review of the development of the WTO dispute resolution procedure and the power and influence it has gained over the practises of the member countries as well as in other international treaties.

This collection seeks to illustrate the state of the art in territoriological research, both empirical and theoretical.

Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates.

This book introduces readers to the press release work carried out by Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China in 2018.

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.

European Environmental Law pulls together the most significant material on the subject from legal and other periodicals to form an essential compendium for those wishing to study the role of law in protecting and conserving the environment.

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic of cooperation among the involved countries.

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 edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century.

This book examines the global, local, and specific environmental factors that facilitate illegal fishing and proposes effective ways to reduce the opportunities and incentives that threaten the existence of the world's fish.

This book introduces the press release work carried out by Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China in 2019.

The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out for the United States a basic, yet ambitious, objective to reduce pollution to levels that protect health and welfare.

First published in 1999, this volume aimed to provide a signpost marking a significant development in the transition from estate to property management in local authorities.

This book presents a range of insights on the relationship between food and law.

The core structure of the regulatory regime for international civil aviation (the 'Chicago System') is inter-national.

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'.

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Democracy is the ability to participate freely and equally in the political and economic affairs of the country.