Environment, transport and planning law: general

Examines the successes and failures of the Clean Air Act in order to lay a foundation for future energy policy.

Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity.

Company law can and should act as a bridge (rather than a barrier) to progressive corporate climate action.

Several disturbing issues pose a threat to the marine environment and its wellbeing, among them marine environmental pollution and degradation of marine biodiversity.

This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes.

This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

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

This book argues that we should approach the relationship between climate change and security through the lens of ecosystem resilience.

The relationship between intellectual property and food affects the production and availability of food by regulating dealings in products, processes, innovations, information and data.

Also Serving Time informs readers about the realities of provincial and territorial prison work in Canada.

This book delves into the integration of sustainability within the European Union's external activities, emphasizing the necessity to weave 'sustainability' throughout its relations with third states and international organizations.

This book focuses on how to create an environmentally friendly society in China from the viewpoint of environmental law and policy.

This book traces the development-environment discourse in India and examines the multi-layered interaction between society and nature in the light of the role of the state, judiciary and the civil society.

This book presents case studies on the human rights performance of state-owned enterprises from four Latin American and three European countries, as well as foreign investments by Chinese state-owned enterprises on these continents.

The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity conservation initiatives, regional peace and integration, and the sustainable socio-economic development of rural communities.

Ausgehend von der Feststellung eines verbreiteten Scheinkonsenses bezüglich der Begründung und Beurteilung umweltpolitischer Maßnahmen im Rahmen der "traditionellen" Umweltökonomik untersucht die Studie den grundsätzlichen Zusammenhang von Umweltökonomik, Umweltpolitik und Marktwirtschaft.

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There has been a rapid growth of interest in due diligence, especially in the fields of environmental law and the law of the sea.

Fossil fuels will remain the backbone of the global energy economy for the foreseeable future.

This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level.

The book highlights new imaginaries required to transcend traditional approaches to law and development.

Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today's modern extractive agricultural system to a sustainable natural-systems agriculture.

This book examines the relationship between International Environmental Law and Human Rights Law regarding the protection of the environment in times of occupation.

Wild Law - In Practice aims to facilitate the transition of Earth Jurisprudence from theory into practice.

Analysis of the law and politics of regulatory competence allocation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

This compact and elegant work (equally fitting for both academic as well as the trade audiences) provides a readily accessible and highly readable overview of Bhutan's unique opportunities and challenges; all her prominent environmental legislation, regulatory statutes, ecological customs and practices, both in historic and contemporary terms.

Examining international water allocation policies in different parts of the world, this book suggests that they can be used as a platform to induce cooperation over larger political issues, ultimately settling conflicts.

The philosophy of Hans Jonas was widely influential in the late twentieth century, warning of the potential dangers of technological progress and its negative effect on humanity and nature.

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.

Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures is a long-standing, must-have reference book for practising environmental health officers in local government and in private practice.

Focused on the mechanics of managing environmental data, this book provides guidelines on how to evaluate data requirements, assess tools and techniques, and implement an effective system.

While environmental catastrophes can be naturally occurring, often they are the result of criminal intent or malfeasance.

Written for a general audience that includes attorneys, land developers, businesses, and government officials, this Fifth Edition provides a general overview of Washington's state and federal statutory and regulatory framework.

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit einem Unternehmen im Schatten des DDR- Außenhandels, das mit dem Export von Kunstgegenständen Devisen erwirtschaftete.

This title was first published in 2003.

This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens.

More than ever before the changing environmental and political landscape in the Arctic requires stability and foreseeability based on resilient common norms.

Offering a practical exploration of persistent and new challenges relating to contemporary international fisheries law, this book examines emerging and unresolved issues in international fisheries law.

The fourth edition of Housing Policy in the United States refreshes its classic, foundational coverage of the field with new data, analysis, and comparative focus.

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom.

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "e;the tragedy of the commons"e;.

This book explores how geopolitical tensions have shaped the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) and offers insights into managing future challenges.