Environment, transport and planning law: general

Aufgrund der zunehmenden Vernetzung internationaler Energiemärkte und der wachsenden Abhängigkeit der Industriestaaten von Öl- und Gasimporten haben Meeresrohrleitungen als maritimes Transportmedium in den letzten Jahrzehnten an Bedeutung gewonnen.

A tool for predicting environmental impacts, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) can also be used to predict the impacts of natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks.

This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

This book analyses the legal challenges facing international cooperation on water management in the twenty-first century.

This book provides a critical study of environmental regulation and its enforcement in New Zealand, situated within green criminology.

This volume provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary analysis of the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection by leading scholars and practitioners.

This book presents a broad overview of the many intersections between health and the environment that lie at the basis of the most crucial environmental health issues, focusing on the responses provided by international and EU law.

This volume examines women and wildlife trafficking via a collection of narratives, case studies and theoretical syntheses from diverse voices and disciplines.

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability.

This book is about environmental and climate legal protection in the energy transition.

Crimes Against the Environment explains the seriousness of the threat posed by pollution, its roots, how it has evolved, how it differs across the planet, and how society has endeavored to create and enforce laws directed at its control.

Sustainability is one of the key concepts underlying our thinking about corporate responsibilities, particularly with respect to the environment and inter-generational justice, but also in relation to corporate governance and the long-term economic viability.

Offering a detailed account of the various legal arrangements at European Union level, this book is an ideal reference tool for practitioners and legal scholars.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, for students, researchers and policymakers.

A new phase is emerging in the relationship between energy and resource activities and the communities that are affected by them.

Case studies for each major topic are supplemented by discussion and questions for classroom reviewInstructor's CD-ROM contains PowerPoint presentations and chapter outlines

This volume analyses the process and structure of ecotaxes in India to bring forth its rationale, application and incidence on emerging environmental problems on the backdrop of the environmental issues confronted by the Indian economy.

This book concerns the subject of illegal charters.

This book documents the United States Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) shift from a rancher-dominated agency to an energy-dominated agency.

Associating social justice with landscape is not new, yet the twenty-first century's heightened threats to landscape and their impact on both human and, more generally, nature's habitats necessitate novel intellectual tools to address such challenges.

Fully revised and updated edition of the classic, stunningly illustrated guide to the cream of Britain's historic country houses cared for by the National Trust, encompassing both interior and exterior design.

This book examines how the EU can be a more proactive actor in the promotion of the principles of sustainability and fairness from a legal environmental perspective.

Der Schutz und die Erhaltung der biologischen Vielfalt sind eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe.

Global findings estimate that 80 per cent of marine pollution originates from land-based sources and is trans-boundary in nature.

This book concerns the subject of illegal charters.

Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) bemängelt in seinem neuesten Jahresbericht, daß die deutsche Forschung zum Globalen Wandel zu wenig international ausgerichtet, zu stark an Einzeldisziplinen orientiert und in der politikrelevanten Aufbereitung zu schwach entwickelt ist.

The Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive (Directive 2001/42/EC) (SEA Directive) has been a lurking legal presence in EU and UK environmental law.

Contracts for Infrastructure Projects: An International Guide provides a guide to the law relating to construction contracts for infrastructure projects; it is intended for the use of engineers and other professionals who are involved in the negotiation and administration of construction contracts, to enable them to understand the risks involved, and how to minimise them.

This book gives a special emphasis to state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives, and projects from universities, stakeholders, organizations, and civil society across the world, regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable development.

This book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the integration of environmental policies into US free trade agreements.

It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states.

As planet Earth continues to absorb unprecedented levels of anthropogenically induced environmental and climatic change, two similar academic schools of thought have emerged in recent years, both making sustained efforts to explain how and why this state of affairs has evolved.

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Climate change has become the most pressing moral and political problem of our time.

This book brings together original and novel perspectives on major developments in human rights law and the environment in Africa.

Transparency in the regulation of water utilities is essential in order to ensure quality and fairness.

This book records the press release of  Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China in 2020.

While the world's oceans cover more than seventy percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in International Relations (IR), being treated either as a corollary of land or as time.

Comparative Perspectives on Communal Lands and Individual Ownership: Sustainable Futures addresses property and land title as central mechanisms governing access to communally-held land and resources.

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.

Spätestens seit dem tödlichen Hochgeschwindigkeitsunfall infolge des illegalen Straßenrennens vom Berliner Kurfürstendamm ist das Thema Raserei in die öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit gerückt.

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed.

Questions the doctrinal construction of environmental law and looks for innovative legal approaches to ecological sustainability.

An analysis of forces affecting wildlife politics worldwide, covering topics such as overexploitation, hunting, ecotourism and trafficking.

Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development.

This book explores the application of concepts of fiduciary duty or public trust in responding to the policy and governance challenges posed by policy problems that extend over multiple terms of government or even, as in the case of climate change, human generations.

National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike.

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