Environment, transport and planning law: general

The present book shares critical perspectives on the conceptualization, implementation, discourses, policies, and alternative practices of environmental education (EE) for diverse and unique groups of learners in a variety of international educational settings.

This book intends to inform the key participants in extractive projects - namely, the communities, the host governments and the investors - about good practice for effective community engagement, based on analysis of international standards and expectations, lessons from selected case-studies and innovations in public participation.

Spanning the last 50 years of fisheries policy in Europe, this book is the parting contribution and career-spanning reflection from one of Europe's most renowned social scientists working in the field of fisheries management and policy.

Assessing Progress toward Sustainability: Frameworks, Tools, and Case Studies provides practical frameworks for measuring progress toward sustainability in various areas of production, consumption, services and urban development as they relate to environmental impact.

This book explores the attempts of South Korea in its to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international transboundary river basins in the developing world.

This book provides a practical, functional comparison among various institutions, tools, implementation practices and norms in environmental law across legal cultures.

This book covers the broad aspects of disaster legislation, governance, and their implementation.

The book explores the role of public market actors in sustainable and circular economy innovation and financing.

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

An innovative, interdisciplinary analysis of the increasingly important relationship between EU environmental and competition law and policy.

Written by a team of top academics and highly-experienced legal practitioners, this is a very complex area of law.

Regulation, Enforcement and Governance in Environmental Law is an updated edition of Richard Macrory's most influential writings.

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international community to live up to the challenges of a planet that is out of control.

Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional 'ecosystem services', from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection.

Despite bringing prosperity, industrialisation generally leads to increasing levels of pollution which has a detrimental impact on the environment.

ResponsAbility challenges conventional thinking about our governance and legal frameworks.

Dieter Senghaas, professor emeritus of international relations, University of Bremen, was one of most innovative contemporary German social scientists, with major contributions on peace and development research and on music and peace.

Written with real clarity by authors teaching and researching in the field, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law offers an excellent starting point for both law and non-law students encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first time.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

This book places contemporary problems of ocean use management in historical context beginning with the time of Hugo Grotius, whose seminal 1609 work The Freedom of the Seas was the basis of ocean law for the next three centuries.

Die Fischerei als Form der Meeresnutzung hat neben ihrer wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung in vielen Küstenregionen auch massive Auswirkungen auf die Meeresumwelt.

The joint challenges of population increase, food security and conservation of agrobiodiversity demand a rethink of plant breeding and agricultural research from a different perspective.

Global competition, corporate downsizing and corporate restructuring have forced many firms to reevaluate their operating methods.

Waste management is a topical issue worldwide.

The fonner Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and fonner UN Secre- tary General, Butros Butros Ghali stated after the second Gulf War "e;The next war in the Middle East will not be fought for oil, but for water.

This impressive collection of original essays explores the relationship between social conflict and the environment - a topic that has received little attention within criminology.

This book investigates pesticide compliance in China in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of compliance and offers some feasible and adaptable suggestions for enhancing the effectiveness of this compliance.

This book details various stages in the introduction, establishment and evolution of China's environmental management system.

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins.

The concept of restitutional surgery aims at surgery that restores natural function.

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

At the beginning of the 21st Millennium, outstanding visionary thinkers and scientists make a timely assessment as to the future prospects of mankind: In what direction are we heading?

Persistent international conflicts, increasing inequality in many regions or the world, and acute environmental and climate-related threats to humanity call for a better understanding of the processes, actors and tools available to face the challenges of achieving global justice.

Demonstrates how ''carceral animal law'' strategies put animal protection efforts at war with general anti-oppression and civil rights efforts.

This book analyses how damage resulting from offshore-related incidents is compensated in European waters, whilst providing models to improve such compensation.

Model Management and Analytics for Large Scale Systems covers the use of models and related artefacts (such as metamodels and model transformations) as central elements for tackling the complexity of building systems and managing data.

This book brings together the findings of a multi-disciplinary and international research project on environmental crime in Europe, funded by the European Union (EU).

Natural disasters such as large-scale flooding are on the increase.

In this objective, practical and authoritative introductory text the author reveals how the fundamental principles of the human-animal relationship drive the development of animal law.

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

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute.

This book indicates the shortcomings of the current international legal system and customary international norms that govern international aviation law to comply with contemporary air transport market realities.

This SpringerBrief brings together a series of studies that delve into the details of French and Israeli green building practices and tell a tale of two countries which deviates considerably from what first impressions might suggest.

Over the past decade, international organizations (IOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have increasingly focused their efforts on the plight of environmental migrants in both industrialized and developing countries.

Based on the swisspeace annual conference 2012, the publication examines the delicate balance between external interventions and locally-led initiatives.

Environmental mediation continues to develop and evolve in different jurisdictions across the world in order to prevent potential environmental conflicts or to resolve the conflicts while avoiding the inherent drawbacks of an adjudicated solution.