Environment, transport and planning law: general

An examination of the problems of transnational environmental damage.

This book focuses on how public and private international law address civil liability for transboundary pollution.

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.

Proposes a new architecture of environmental law and public policy that is as practical as it is theoretically sound.

We incarcerate humans as a form of punishment and we cage animals for food, entertainment, and research.

It is an unfortunate truth that our oceans offer valuable resources that are too often used unsustainably.

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

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.

Sustainability is one of the key concepts underlying our thinking about corporate responsibilities, particularly with respect to the environment and inter-generational justice, but also in relation to corporate governance and the long-term economic viability.

Mit dem vorliegenden Werk wird die zweite Auflage der Kommentierung Johann Georg Helms vollendet, die er im Jahre 1986 mit dem Speditionsrecht der §§ 407 - 415 HGB begonnen und dem Band zum nationalen Frachtrecht mit den §§ 425 - 452 HGB im Jahre 1994 fortgesetzt hatte, beide als Lieferungen zum Großkommentar HGB und eigenständige Sonderausgaben erschienen.

This book examines the diverse use of Indigenous customary rights in modern landscapes from a multidisciplinary perspective.

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations provide surprisingly little direction for preparing environmental assessments (EA).

Energieeffizienz und Energieeinsparungen sind – neben erneuerbaren Energien – die Basis für eine volkswirtschaftlich optimierte Energiestrategie.

The pollution state of various resources has deteriorated to such an extent that survival of human life is at stake.

International environmental agreements provide a practical basis for countries to address environmental issues on a global scale.

Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity issues at the top of the global environmental agenda.

The book provides an introduction to shipping in all its aspects.

Presents a distinctly local idea of citizenship that, with the advance of globalization, often conflicts with national citizenship.

This book advances an innovative, multi-jurisdictional argument for the necessity of company law reform to reorient companies towards environmental sustainability.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*Although widely criticised and hugely wasteful, The Common Agricultural Policy did at least afford British farmers a degree of support.

This textbook provides readers with the fundamentals and the intent of environmental regulations so that compliance can be greatly improved and streamlined.

Presents cutting-edge insights into adapting institutions that build social-ecological resilience to complex multi-scale environmental change.

This book proposes a holistic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a subject of social sciences.

This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.

This book conducts an examination of the international legal regime of the continental shelf through the lens of international relations (IR), with a primary focus on global governance theory.

With cities increasingly following rigid rules for designing out crime and producing spaces under surveillance, this book asks how information shapes bodies, space, and, ultimately, policymaking.

Setting out the practice, procedure, policy and compensation provisions applying to a compulsory purchase, this new edition is updated to include all relevant case law, legislation, policy and guidance since the third edition, including:- the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) Practice Directions, October 2020- the implementation of the Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017- changes in secondary legislation (including the Tribunal procedure rules)- changes in policy and guidance (especially the guidance for Wales and the Tribunal practice directions)It enables you to:-find clear statements of the law and practice on all points that relate to compulsory purchase and compensation-understand the detailed analysis necessary to grapple with tricky points encountered in practice-access cross-references to legislation, key case law and guidance, easilyAs it simplifies what can be simplified and explains with clarity any difficult areas, it is the one guide you need to help you access and assimilate all the statutes, of varying antiquity and judicial decisions, that relate to compulsory purchase and compensation.

Few concerns preoccupy contemporary progressive thought as much as the issue of how to achieve a sustainable human society.

This book discusses and studies the basic course of ecological civilization construction in the 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China and summarizes the experience and lessons.

A comprehensive analysis of environmental liability law in Europe.

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

This book addresses the recognition of the Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, examining their conceptualisation and implementation.

A wide range of crop genetic resources is vital for future food security.

Today's youth will face global environmental changes, as well as complex personal and social challenges.

The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since.

This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face.

An account of everyday justice and the factors that shape it in the battle to seek legal relief for environmental pollution in China.

This book examines how the EU can be a more proactive actor in the promotion of the principles of sustainability and fairness from a legal environmental perspective.

Provides a comprehensive guide to climate change law in Australia and internationally, focusing on Australia''s implementation of climate-related treaties.

The controversy aroused by the Supreme Court's decision on offshore mineral rights emphsizes the importance of the public domain in the workings of the Canadian constitution.

Judicial review of environmental decisions is an important and growing area of public law.

The direction of higher education is at a crossroads against a background of mounting sustainability-related issues and uncertainties.

This book questions the use of salvage law as legal regulatory framework for the remuneration of environmental services in salvage operations, proposing that such services should be based on direct contracting between commercial salvors and coastal States.