Environment, transport and planning law: general

This book introduces the concept of the Anthropocene and examines its importance for environmental legal thinking, research and practice.

The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe.

This book is the first to undertake a gendered analysis of geoengineering and alternative energy sources.

Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus that it should protect us from such dangers as bacteria-infested food, harmful drugs, toxic pollution, crumbling bridges, and unsafe toys.

Environmental laws and regulations are extremely complex and difficult to understand.

Cargo management, especially in the maritime sphere, plays a vital role in the transfer of goods between seller and buyer.

This set of papers presents a description of the synthesis of hydrological problems and various environmental implications and management strategies for different highland and headwater regions of the world.

Im Frühjahr 1994 sind neue Regelungen der Europäischen Union in Bezug auf die Abfallverbringung innerhalb der Mitgliedsländer in Kraft getreten.

This book compares the ways in which trade unions in five EU member states have responded to increased migration.

Principles and Practices of Aquatic Law presents the best practices and principles related to aquatic law and risk management.

According to a famous Talmudic story (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat: 31a), a gentile once approached Rabbi Hillel and asked to be taught the entire Torah while standing on one foot.

Drawing on the author's practical knowledge of British waste regulation law, this book contains a comprehensive account of relevant legislation plus a detailed interpretation of the statutory provisions and associated case law.

The ecosystem approach embodies a concept of the environment which emphasizes the integrated components of nature as complex adaptive systems.

Revised to include several recent and important Clean Air Act developments, including the Clear Skies Initiative, this completely updated Handbook provides you with a broad overview of all the complex regulatory requirements of the Act and its amendments.

Increasingly, environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess.

With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangible cultural heritage is of growing concern to global cities.

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

Conflict is a major facet of many environmental challenges of our time.

This book addresses the problem of 'animal life' in terms that go beyond the usual extension of liberal rights to animals.

Most ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes.

Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy-from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement-is not working.

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

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.

Die Agenda 21, die als Abschlußdokument der UN-Konferenz über Umwelt und Entwicklung 1992 in Rio de Janeiro verabschiedet wurde, stellt den Kommunen die Aufgabe, mit allen Interessengruppen ihrer Bürgerschaft über einen Konsultationsprozeß einen Konsens über eine lokale Agenda zu erzielen.

In the 21st century, environmental harm is an ever-present reality of our globalised world.

In international negotiations, the question of the design and the legal form of the negotiated instrument is as complex as it is often controversial.

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

In 1970 Earth Day was first celebrated marking the dawn of worldwide environmental consciousness and the passing of many environmental laws.

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

This book applies concepts from ethics, justice, and political philosophy to five sets of contemporary energy problems cutting across time, economics, politics, geography, and technology.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of eco-global criminology.

Does extinction have to be forever?

This exceptional guidebook provides the strategies necessary to curtail ergonomic losses and costs associated with spiraling worker's compensation premiums and medical expenses, of major concern in all businesses.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Mitigation and Adaptation focuses on the link between climate change threats and sustainable development goals.

This book provides a historical and analytical account of changes in the seafood supply chain in Britain from the mid-twentieth century to the present, looking at the impact of various types of governance.

The aim of this book is to encourage integration of the natural and social sciences with the policy and design-making community, and thereby develop a deeper understanding of complex environmental problems.

The ISO 14000 EMS Audit Handbook is an innovative and cost-effective approach for the Environmental Management System (EMS) audit to ISO 14001.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Auf Raub und Plünderung der deutschen Wehrmacht in der UdSSR folgte Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges der Abtransport deutscher Kulturgüter in die Sowjetunion.

This book explores the nature of liberal property in the twenty-first century.

This book is the first to provide a detailed and critical account of the emergence, development, and implementation of plant variety protection laws in Asian countries.

This book utilizes critical discourse analysis to illuminate the ways in which one of the largest agribusinesses in operation, Tyson Foods, disguises their actions whilst simultaneously presenting the image of a benign, good corporate citizen.

Compulsory Purchase and Compensation is the essential guide to this complex and increasingly relevant area of the law.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

Hace ya veinte años que el Departamento de Derecho del Medio Ambiente de la Universidad Externado de Colombia inició la colección Lecturas so­bre Derecho del Medio Ambiente.