Environment, transport and planning law: general

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

The most significant overhaul of the U.

Is there a future for the law?

Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the 'Continent for Science and Peace' in a time of planetary environmental change.

This book presents peer-reviewed texts from the International Peace Research Association's Ecology and Peace Commission: M.

On April 22-23, 1988, approximately 432,000 gallons of San Joaquin Valley crude oil spilled from an aboveground storage tank at a Shell Oil Company refinery into the surrounding environment, including the northern reaches of San Francisco Bay (the Martinez spill).

The Law of Compulsory Purchase helps the reader to understand the law relating to compulsory purchase and compensation with quick to find clear statements of the law and practice on all points arising in relation to compulsory purchase and compensation.

This book presents and defends an interpretation of the precautionary principle from the perspective of philosophy of science.

Fundamentals of Public Utilities Management provides practical information for constructing a roadmap for successful compliance with new and ever-changing regulatory frameworks, upgrading and maintenance, and general management of utilities operations.

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

This volume establishes a theoretical framework for exploring the role of host state legal systems (courts and bureaucracies) in mediating relations between foreign investment, civil society and government actors.

This book discusses and studies the basic course of ecological civilization construction in the 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China and summarizes the experience and lessons.

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.

Das Sächsische Wassergesetz hat mit der jüngsten Novellierung eine grundlegende Überarbeitung und Anpassung an die geänderten Vorschriften des Wasserhaushaltsgesetzes erfahren.

Sentencing guidelines impose tough penalties for health and safety and environmental offences: how can you avoid them?

§ 11 TierSchG regelt eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Tätigkeiten mit Tieren und ist daher von hoher praktischer Bedeutung.

Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's development and stressing key principles, processes, and landmark cases.

The Sharing Economy and the Relevance for Transport, Volume Four in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series, assesses both successful and unsuccessful practices and policies from around the world.

This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan.

Wetlands are a vital natural resource and an integral part of the ecosystem.

This volume brings together, in a central text, chapters written by leading scholars working at the intersection of modeling, the natural and social sciences, and public participation.

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

Biomethane through resource circularity: Research, Technology and Practices is an invaluable resource for researchers, policy makers, implementers and PhD and Marsters level students in universities analyzing the present status, waste biomass including agro wastes, success in experimentation & commercial production, future needs and other relevant areas.

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).

This edited collection of articles addresses aspects of medical care in which human error is associated with unanticipated adverse outcomes.

Effective Waste Management and Circular Economy: Legislative Framework and Strategies is an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, implementers and PhD, graduate and Under Graduate level students in universities and colleges analysing the legal framework, strategies in waste management, circular economy adoption, use of mathematical and statistical modelling in setting waste management strategies, sanitation and Hygiene in waste management.

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.

Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides current science to support evidence-based action.

International environmental agreements provide a basis for countries to address ecological problems on a global scale.

Through the lens of time, the book critiques environmental law and recommends ways to enable it to respond to nature''s time scales.

This book is based on EU-funded project PLANTFOODSEC, covering intentional and unintentional threats to plant biosecurity and to food safety areas.

The book examines the well-established field of 'law and development' and asks whether the concept of development and discourses on law and development have outlived their usefulness.

Assembling a series of voices from across the field, this book demonstrates how posthuman theory can be employed to better understand and tackle some of the challenges faced by contemporary international law.

What are the potentially negative consequences of an undeniably good public policy?

This book examines the trade in nonhuman animals of endangered wild species.

This book provides keys to decrypt current political debates on the environment in light of the theories that support them, and provides tools to better understand and manage environmental conflicts and promote environmentally friendly behaviour.

This book presents a critical analysis of India's environment pollution and protection scenario, following the 'State-Pressure-Response' framework to analyse the parameters of conservation.

Ecological Management of Mining: Achieving Environmental Compliance is a study and comparison - global in scope - of current practices used by mining firms striving for ecological management.

One of the principal arguments put forth by Brexit supporters is that by freeing the UK from the stranglehold of EU law, the country will be able to expand its markets through increased bilateral trade and enhance economic growth.

Con este proyecto pretendemos analizar la evolución del artículo 334 del Código Penal español de 1995, así como las críticas que ha recibido por parte de diferentes autores y la doctrina más científica con el paso de los años; junto a sus cambios de redacción hasta llegar a la actual; la forma en la que se ha interpretado a la hora de castigar acciones reconducibles a su supuesto de hecho y; realizar una breve reflexión desde un punto de vista tanto ecológico como jurídico, de los problemas que conllevan las conductas tipificadas relacionadas con este delito.

The drive for change has informed human endeavour throughout history.

Inspired by recent litigation, this book identifies and critically appraises the manifold and varied approaches to calculating compensation for damage caused to the environment.

This book explores a range of plausible futures for environmental law in the new era of the Earth's history: the Anthropocene.

People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 1970s have not convinced sufficient numbers make sustainable decisions or to lead sustainable lives.

As the world's biggest polluter, the environmental challenges that China faces in controlling its airborne emissions are crucial, not only to its own population in terms of tackling the severe domestic air pollution, but also to the planet as it faces calls from the international community to accept its responsibilities in cutting greenhouse gases.

This book examines the extent to which the regulatory design of the emissions permit system in China, taking into account the EU's regulatory experience with integration and from the perspective of the specific Chinese situation, provides opportunities for or hinders the implementation of integrated pollution prevention and control.

Bereits in früheren Jahrhunderten war die Balkanhalbinsel häufig Schauplatz kriegerischer Handlungen, denen historische und religiöse Objekte zum Opfer fielen.