Environment, transport and planning law: general

The success of Brazil in the large-scale production and use of fuel ethanol has been widely discussed and analyzed by other countries interested in adopting policies designed to encourage the use of biofuels.

Taking a social science approach, this book explores the governance of sustainable seafood, which is fundamental to food and nutrition security as well as being an important source of income and employment in many regions.

Offering a novel, transdisciplinary approach to environmental law, its principles, mechanics and context, as tested in its application to the urban environment, this book traces the conceptual and material absence of communication between the human and the natural and controversially includes such an absence within a system of law and a system of geography which effectively remain closed to environmental considerations.

Conflicts over natural resources abound in India, where much of the population is dependent on these resources for their livelihoods.

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

The world is getting hotter as it experiences the extremes of global climate change.

This book introduces readers to the concept of territory as it applies to law while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations.

This book aims to provide a general systematic analysis of key issues of Turkish environmental law and policies and to highlight the related concerns and challenges.

Persistent organic contaminants, which are bioaccumulative and toxic are a concern for the ecosystems and human health and are regulated under international law (global and regional conventions, besides other).

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

This textbook provides a concise introduction for students with little or no legal background, to the role of law in environmental protection.

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

Industrial Safety and Health for Goods and Materials Services focuses on the safety requirements of the wholesale and retail trades, including warehousing.

First published in 2007, this is a valuable reference book for graduate students, scientists and managers on the sustainable protection of the Malay Archipelago.

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time.

Mediterranean irrigation is diverse due to, among other factors, the relative importance of water in the economy of each country, varied levels of aridity, heterogeneous levels economic, social and technological levels of development, and differences in political and social organization.

In Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Environmental Liability, experts who held leadership positions and worked directly with the UNCC draw on their experience with the institution and provide a comprehensive view of the United Nations Compensation Comission and its work in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

Reflecting changes in the field during the ten years since the publication of the first edition, Developing a Safety and Health Program, Second Edition examines the elements of a safety and health program and delineates how to incorporate them into an organization's safety efforts.

This book addresses the ways in which the Black Summer megafires influenced the development of climate narratives throughout 2020.

This book analyses the drivers of specific common pool resource problems, particularly in fisheries and forestry, examining the way in which private and public regulation have intervened to fight the common pool resource problem by contributing to the establishment and maintenance of property rights.

Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies.

This volume, the second in a series of three, examines the institutional architecture underpinning the global climate integrity system.

Marine mammal conservation remains a hot-button international environmental issue, but progress towards addressing key conservation and management issues within existing governance structures-most notably the International Whaling Commission-has stalled.

Food, water and society: what is managed by whom, and with what impacts?

The eighth edition of the New Jersey Environmental Law Handbook has been thoroughly rewritten and updated.

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

Originally published in 1995, Analyzing Superfund outlines the key issues of the superfund reauthorization debate in the United States.

Environmental Sustainability and Economy contains the latest practical and theoretical concepts of sustainability science and economic growth.

Die wichtigsten Gesetze und Verordnungen werden vorgestellt und die Rechtslage an Hand aktueller Rechtssprechung dargelegt.

This book provides an overview and assessment of infrastructure's legal and governance underpinnings.

Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of animal rights.

Life now without access to electronic telecommunications would be regarded as highly unsatisfactory by most of the UK population.

This title was first published in 2002.

This work discusses the rapidly developing European transport policy on sustainable freight and the connected efforts initiated by the European Commission (EC) on greening transport by the means of contract law.

Environmental certification is an effective tool for managing the environmental impact of companies, leveraging their competitive capabilities and ensuring their compliance with environmental principles.

The United States and Canada are salt water neighbors on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans.

Laws relating to water in India have diverse origins, including ancient local customs and the British Common Law.

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.

The Twyford Down story is set in a political and historical framework in order to examine the key issues affecting road planning and environmental protection: the system of route selection; Crown development; government agents, NGOs and locally elected authorities; conservation legislation; subsidiarity; lobbying techniques; and the role of the press.

This comprehensive yet concise textbook is the first to provide a focused, subject specific guide to planning practice and law.

An international river basin is an ecological system, an economic thoroughfare, a geographical area, a font of life and livelihoods, a geopolitical network and, often, a cultural icon.

This book reconciles competing and sometimes contradictory forms of land use, while also promoting sustainable land use options.

This sociolegal study focuses on the political, legal and institutional problems and dilemmas of regulating land tenure.

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.

"e;Environmental crime is a growing challenge for policy makers and law enforcers.

This book critically examines the development and current structure of European Union agri-environmental measures at a substantive level.

This fully updated and comprehensive 3rd edition of The Law of Ship Mortgages provides readers with a practical, commercially based and definitive guide to the English law of ship mortgages.