Environment, transport and planning law: general

This book examines the US Water Quality Act to determine state choice in water infrastructure policy, for researchers and policymakers.

Africa is endowed with commercially viable quantities of several minerals and metals, and, more than ever before, African countries wish to harness their mineral resources for their economic development.

This book is about joint implementation.

The book sheds new light on the achievements, challenges and legal complexity of the EU as a global environmental actor.

This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant economic system.

'The Patron Saint of Conservation' Sir David Attenborough'Peter Scott was a huge influence on my childhood.

This book examines the imperative role of global environmental governance, and the need to incorporate corporate environmental accountability and mechanisms for enforcement, to effectively address the global environmental crisis.

Monitoring and enforcement issues must be analysed when determining the effectiveness of pollution control regulation, and clearly influence choices about how to regulate.

There isn't one conversation about animal ethics.

Environmental harms exert a significant toll and pose substantial economic costs on societies around the world.

The purpose of this textbook is to provide a well-rounded working knowledge of both climate change and environmental sustainability for a wide range of students.

This book reconsiders the use of food metaphors and the relationship between law and food in an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how food related topics can be used to describe or identify rules, norms, or prescriptions of all kinds.

This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative (e.

This book presents an analysis of climate change and agricultural laws in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in order to determine whether they adequately addressed the concept of agricultural adaptation.

Contracts of Carriage by Air, Second Edition contains annotated analysis of the provisions of the international conventions governing the carriage of goods and passengers by air.

Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.

Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change.

This book examines the role of The International Maritime Organization (IMO) in the prevention and control of pollution of the marine environment from vessels with a particular reference to the current north-south tensions regarding the strategy for combating climate change in the maritime sector as well as the prevention of marine pollution from the ship-breaking industry.

This book explores the role of trade remedies in liberalising environmental trade and discouraging environmentally harmful trade.

A comparative analysis via legal transplant theory on how England, America and China guarantee the right to environmental information.

This book will help policy makers, university students, and the general public understand how the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is intended to work, and how it can be used to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in order to combat global warming.

This book discusses in a concise manner the key aspects that are important for the understanding of regulations and managerial framework governing marine pollution.

Mit einzelnen Staaten der USA, der Volksrepublik China und der Europaischen Union setzen wesentliche Emittenten CO2 Emittenten weiterhin auf Emissionshandelssysteme zur Reduzierung des CO2 Ausstoes.

Environmental policy is often practiced reactively with each crisis addressed as an isolated event.

Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice is the definitive work on litigation in the Admiralty Court.

Das Luftverkehrsrecht bewältigt Lärmemissionen derzeit vorrangig mit Mitteln passiven Schallschutzes.

Landnutzungsänderungen, v.

This "e;how-to"e; book on planning and managing GIS within local government describes and details the key components of a successful enterprise, sustainable and enduring GIS.

The 2002 New Delhi Declaration of Principles of International Law relating to Sustainable Development set out seven principles on sustainable development, as agreed in treaties and soft-law instruments from before the 1992 Rio 'Earth Summit' UNCED, to the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, to the 2012 Rio UNCSD.

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

With a current population inflow into cities of 200,000 people per day, UN Habitat expects that up to 75% of the global population will live in cities by 2050.

This book explores the nexus between natural resources ownership and the right to development in Africa.

A multidisciplinary approach to transforming biodiversity governance to combat the failure of current efforts and halt biodiversity loss.

Over the last decade, the world has increasingly grappled with the complex linkages emerging between efforts to combat climate change and to protect human rights around the world.

Climate change is one of the most serious global challenges facing humankind.

The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid economic growth that has characterized recent economic history of China and India, especially over the past few decades.

Statutory Nuisance and Residential Property: Environmental Health Problems in Housing examines the statutory nuisance provisions in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 pertaining to the condition of premises and related problems in housing and compares these with the provisions of the Housing Act 2004.

This edited collection is an interdisciplinary and international collaborative book that critically investigates the growing phenomenon of Indigenous-industry agreements - agreements that are formed between Indigenous peoples and companies involved in the extractive natural resource industry.

This book explores the process of shipbreaking in developing countries, with a particular focus on Bangladesh.

This book is about building and maintaining involved, sustainable, and inclusive communities from the ground up during a period of unprecedented growth and global change.

South Africa is widely recognised as a middle-income, industrialised nation, but it also ranks amongst the most unequal countries in the world in terms of its income distribution and human development.

Most scholars attribute systemic causes of food insecurity to poverty, human overpopulation, lack of farmland, and expansion of biofuel programs.

This book addresses the livelihood impacts of climate change, vulnerability and adaptation measures on the forest dependent communities of India.

It is widely accepted that the future development of environmental law depends not on further legislation, but on more effective enforcement.

Explores normative and institutional innovation in international law as a response to the challenges to global order posed by rapid environmental change.

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

The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation.