Environment, transport and planning law: general

At heart, transportation policy and research are about people: connecting individuals and the places they live, ensuring sufficient and equitable access, and facilitating movement.

This thoroughly revised edition of the Maryland Environmental Law Handbook provides a comprehensive reference work that the reader can rely on for up-to-date and accurate information on Maryland's environmental law.

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Issues in Expropriation reviews the contemporary major issues involving expropriation (eminent domain/compulsory purchase) in an international context.

Introducing readers to the study of law, media and popular culture, this text, using three original case studies, re-examines the assumptions underpinning existing research and suggests alternatives.

When will we see autonomous vehicles on our roads?

The inclusion of qualitative social data into global environmental and economic input-output (IO) models remained illusive for many years.

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster.

Joint Venture Disputes in the Energy and Natural Resource Sectors provides the most comprehensive review of judgments and arbitral awards in these sectors to date.

This book explains the drivers and implications of unconventional gas at regional, national and global scales with case studies and in-depth analyses.

Nutrition Economics: Principles and Policy Applications establishes the core criteria for consideration as new policies and regulations are developed, including application-based principles that ensure practical, effective implementation of policy.

A critical, intercultural and interdisciplinary review of our relationship with the environment, and its reflection in law and governance.

The goal of every safety professional and safety program is to be proactive and to identify problems while complying within safety guidelines.

The book covers a range of topics including the historical evolution and present landscape of Brazilian environmental law; fundamental principles of environmental law; environmental constitutionalism in Brazil; the legal framework governing environmental assets; animal protection and rights; environmental federalism; national environmental policy; administrative tools for environmental regulation; civil and criminal environmental liability; judicial interpretations of environmental law; specially protected areas; climate change legislation and litigation; and water resource management.

Public misperception of radiological risk consistently directs limited resources toward managing minimal or even phantom risks at great cost to government and industry with no measurable benefit to overall public health.

A comprehensive resource on different aspects of sustainable carbon capture technologies including recent process developments, environmentally friendly methods, and roadmaps for implementations.

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

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.

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

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

Marianne Horinko Executive Vice President, Global Environment and Technology Foundation On August 7, 1978, President Carter declared a state of emergency in the community of Love Canal, New York.

This book deals with the introduction of a new type of "e;spatial measures"e; in flood governance.

Groundwater is endangered and polluted in several ways.

A comprehensive introductory textbook that integrates environmental ethics with social and religious perspectives, this cross-disciplinary approach helps students understand the depth and breadth of environmental issues in a globally relevant way.

How are indigenous and local people faring in their dealings with mining and related industries in the first part of the 21st century?

Mountains are the home of significant ecological resources - wildlife habitat, higher elevation plant systems, steep slopes, delicate soils and water systems.

REDD+ operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South.

Modern environmental regulation and its complex intersection with international law has led many jurisdictions to develop environmental courts or tribunals.

Freight Forwarding and Multimodal Transport Contracts, 2nd Edition, is a comprehensive guide to the law in relation to contract forms and terms created by operators, trade associations or international bodies such as the UN and used as a basis for trading conditions by freight forwarders, logistics suppliers, combined or multimodal transport operators and container operators.

The ten catastrophic risks that threaten human civilisation and the planet, and advice on how to overcome or mitigate them.

This book addresses the recognition of the Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, examining their conceptualisation and implementation.

The Right to Repair reveals how companies stop us from fixing our devices and explains how we can fight back.

This groundbreaking text provides students with an overview and assessment of green criminology as well as a call to action.

Environmental health encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents.

A novel theoretical framework to analyse the effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs, including ISO 14001.

This book systematically explores the emerging legal discipline of Earth System Law (ESL), challenging the closed system of law and marking a new era in law and society scholarship.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Giftgesetz der DDR" verfügbar.

There is a growing need to support undergraduate educators in the development of environmental management educational materials.

Recent years have seen a globalization of property rights as the Western conception of property over land has extended across the world.

Current advancements in civil rights and environmental activism emphasize the crucial importance of making environmental information widely available to the public, regardless of whether it is in the hands of the government or of corporations, especially when the information is needed to understand and prevent risks for human health and the environment.

The rapid industrialization of societies has resulted in radical changes to the Earth's biosphere and its local ecosystems.

A key point in the book is the need to focus more seriously at the energy problem as the real problem behind global warming.

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management, enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters.

Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments is a preliminary contribution to the establishment of re-embodiments as a theoretical strand within legal and ecological theory, and philosophy.

Christian Munthe undertakes an innovative, in-depth philosophical analysis of what the idea of a precautionary principle is and should be about.

Bei vorliegender Studie handelt es sich um die gekürzte und geringfügig überarbeitete Fassung meiner Habilitationsschrift, die im Wintersemester 1997/98 von der Philosophischen Fakultät I der Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg angenommen wurde.

The steady growth in the number of vehicles on the road, heavy reliance on coal, use of dirty fuels for residential combustion, and extensive open burning are some of the major factors leading to the progressive deterioration of air quality in developing countries in Asia.

Climate change is one of the most pressing problems facing the global community.

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.