Environment, transport and planning law: general

"e;This book provides up-to-date knowledge of space debris and valuable insights on how to grapple with this issue from legal, technical, economical and societal aspects.

Environmental professionals are often called upon to find solutions to environmental degradation problems or to lead the way in planning to prevent them.

Emerging contaminants include an extensive array of synthetic chemicals in global use, such as plastic additives, microplastics, water disinfection byproducts, pharmaceuticals, man-made nanomaterials, and UV-filters.

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.

Written with real clarity by authors teaching and researching in the field, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law offers an excellent starting point for both law and non-law students encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first time.

Energy is becoming a prominent driver of economic development.

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity.

This book explores the emergence of ecological sustainability as a new EU policy and legal objective, distinct and autonomous from sustainable development.

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

This book clarifies factors that play an important role in securing the effectiveness of legal regimes that aim to protect public interests of the international community.

Kann Hamburg auf gesetzlicher Grundlage gegenüber dem Bund einen Ausbau der Elbe verlangen?

On the 11th of March 2011, an earthquake registering 9.

A staunch advocate for the Adirondack Park, activist and writer Paul Schaefer deeply influenced conservation policy in New York State.

This book re-imagines law as ecolaw.

This book presents a series of "e;ecological law"e; case studies, designed to illustrate in concrete, real-world ways how ecological law would transform law in a range of diverse contexts.

The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies offers a comprehensive survey of the new field of waste studies, critically interrogating the cultural, social, economic, and political systems within which waste is created, managed, and circulated.

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'.

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

This thorough legal resource guides those pushing the frontlines of the nation''s oldest battle: the fight to protect indigenous cultures.

Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.

This volume is an inspiring and breakthrough piece of academic scholarship and the first of its kind featuring a comprehensive reader-friendly approach to teach the intricacies of the various aspects of international farm animal, wildlife conservation, food safety and environmental protection law.

Esta nueva publicación del Departamento de Derecho Minero Energético tiene lugar en el marco de la conmemoración de los 130 años de fundación de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, que celebramos con la presentación de la obra colectiva Derecho de la Energía en América Latina; trabajo en el que se recogen los artículos de los más destacados académicos y profesionales de la región, estudiosos del sector energético.

Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning examines the practices and policies linking transportation, land use and environmental planning needed to achieve a healthy environment, thriving economy, and more equitable and inclusive society.

This book provides a critical understanding of the challenges that exist in protecting the local and global environment through compliance efforts using existing environmental regulations.

This compilation of key materials in international environmental law takes account of the most significant developments in the field that have occurred during the past decade, including in the areas of climate change, chemicals and pesticides, biosafety, and nuclear safety, as well as good governance, compliance and liability.

The United States and China are each actively pursuing development of a Blue Economy to promote greater marine, maritime, and naval capabilities through more innovative, sustainable and environmentally friendly means.

The human use of nature is a polarizing topic in India and across the globe, often perceived as contradictory to traditional exclusionary conservation.

Developments in the Arctic region are increasingly part of international discussion.

This book is a collection of judgments drawn from the innovative Wild Law Judgment Project.

This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture.

This book analyses the interpretation of environmental offences contained in the waste, contaminated land, and habitats' protection regimes.

This book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially transformative solutions to the current stalemate in contemporary water policy design.

Advances in Transport Policy and Planning assesses both successful and unsuccessful practices and policies from around the world on the topic.

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 book undertakes a scholarly assessment of the state of the art of law and policy perspectives on groundwater and climate change at the international, regional and national levels.

The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU's entire land territory plus large marine areas.

Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat.

Electrical and electronic waste is a growing problem as volumes are increasing fast.

Food and nutrition security - identified via availability, access, utilization, and stability - and transitions to sustainable food systems are major discourses in the agro-food arena, as many countries today experience different forms of malnutrition simultaneously, such as child undernutrition, anemia among women, and adult obesity.

The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently.

Wetlands throughout the world, including those described in this book are among the most sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems.

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.

Developing an innovative approach to understanding how organized crime groups diversify into the illegal trade in natural resources, this book looks at the convergence between environmental crime and other serious crimes.

Addressing global environmental challenges from a peace ecology perspective, the present book offers peer-reviewed texts that build on the expanding field of peace ecology and applies this concept to global environmental challenges in the Anthropocene.