Environment, transport and planning law: general

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

Es wird die Komplexität von Umweltverschmutzung und Gesundheitsbeeinträchtigung im Kontext von sozialer Indikation dargestellt.

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or broadly support livelihoods.

Analyzes how combinations of instruments at different levels of government, or smart mixes, can effectively regulate transboundary environmental harm.

This book provides a comprehensive Australian perspective on the resolution of resources disputes.

This second edition of Building Procurement has been revised to take into account recent developments in procurement, such as the Private Finance initiative, as well as some of the recommendations in the Latham Report and its working groups.

This book explores the contributions of East Asian traditions, particularly Buddhism and Daoism, to environmental philosophy in dialogue with European philosophy.

Being the public voice of over 180 member organisations across nearly 90 countries, La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement, has planted itself firmly on the international scene.

Although tackling the causes of climate change through mitigation is necessary, it is also essential to examine the effect of climate change and what international cooperation can take place to ensure global adaptation measures.

Sustainable mobility has long been sought after in cities around the world, particularly in industrialised countries, but also increasingly in the emerging cities in Asia.

Climate change is now a mainstream part of the international political agenda.

This book explores various contemporary aspects of the growing field of housing, land and property (HLP) rights.

This one-stop, interdisciplinary overview of compliance explains what compliance is, how it is studied, and what factors shape it.

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 book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea.

This book presents a novel examination of Marine Protected Areas within a security context, bridging science, policy, and geopolitics, and addressing the often-under-emphasized aspect of environmental justice.

This book provides a critical examination of contemporary approaches to environmental regulation in the UK and the European Union.

by Claes Lykke Ragner, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute Marking the end of the International Northern Sea Route Programme (INSROP), the Northern Sea Route User Conference was organized in Oslo on 18-20 November 1999.

This book introduces legal aspects of business networks in logistics with the example of shippers' co-operation in cargo bundling, which is the practice of manufacturing and distributing companies (shippers) consolidating cargo before the engagement of a carrier.

Since 1950 the population of the world has more than doubled, and the proportion of people living in cities has increased by a factor of four.

Food products with genetically modified (GM) ingredients are common, yet many consumers are unaware of this.

Most Americanseven environmentalistsdate the emergence of laws protecting nature to the early 1970s.

This landmark book focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and on their role in struggles for the right to the city.

This book has been developed in association with the Cultural Heritage Department of the Council of Europe.

Liner conferences are among the oldest surviving cartels in the world.

This book calls for the conditions of transition to sustainability: How to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, financial crises, demographic dynamics, global urbanization, migrations and mobility, while bearing in mind short-term or local place-based issues, such as social justice or quality of life?

This book provides a step-by-step, insiders' guide on how to lobby and engage successfully at the United Nations.

European Environmental Law pulls together the most significant material on the subject from legal and other periodicals to form an essential compendium for those wishing to study the role of law in protecting and conserving the environment.

Coastal communities depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods, but the common property nature of marine resources poses major challenges for the governance of such resources.

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

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts presents the theoretical basis for the various impacts of wind turbines on humans.

This book critically examines the corporate environmental responsibility of major oil companies operating in Nigeria's Niger Delta, focusing on oil spills and comparing regulatory frameworks in Nigeria, the US, the UK, and the EU.

This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts.

The California Environmental Law and Natural Resources Handbook is a succinct reference manual for lawyers, students, conservationists, and developers.

The purpose of this text to provide a "e;one stop"e; source for safety professionals to acquire a general knowledge regarding not only the OSH Act but also laws and standards which impact the safety profession on a daily basis.

This book explores the role of trade remedies in liberalising environmental trade and discouraging environmentally harmful trade.

This book examines the greening of civil codes from a comparative perspective.

This book explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in environmental engineering, emphasizing the unique challenges and approaches required for the accurate modeling of physical phenomena.

This book examines trade and trafficking in endangered animal species and how the trade increasingly puts large numbers of nonhuman species at risk.

The UK Climate Change Act was the first case of a country implementing blanket legally binding long-term emissions reduction targets in order to combat climate change.

This book uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to examine how Earth's human-caused ecological crisis arose and presents a new legal approach for overcoming it.

This United Nations report examines the current state of knowledge of the world''s oceans, for policymakers, and provides a reference for marine science courses.

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflections and empirical research from leading researchers and practitioners working in this transdisciplinary and transnational academic field.

A forward-looking perspective on how law should evolve to better protect and preserve our oceans.

This book analyses the nexus between land access and the extractive industries in Africa, specifically highlighting the gaps in energy, land and mining laws and the practical solutions needed to settle the increasing number of land disputes in resource-rich areas.

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

Written by one of the nation's leading environmental law firms, this handbook provides concise, easy-to-understand explanations of your state compliance obligations.

El Departamento de Derecho Minero-Energético de la Universidad Externado de Colombia presenta a la comunidad académica nacional e internacional la edición número 11 de su Colección de Regulación Minera y Energética.