Environment, transport and planning law: general

Given the tendency of books on disasters to predominantly focus on strong geophysical or descriptive perspectives and in-depth accounts of particular catastrophes, Disaster Research provides a much-needed multidisciplinary perspective of the area.

Environmental health law is a wide-ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK.

Featuring case studies and discussion questions, this textbook with revisions addressing significant changes to US food law offers accessible coverage appropriate to a wide audience of students and professionals.

Questions about land control have invigorated thinkers in agrarian studies and economic history since the nineteenth century.

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

Dieser ausbildungs- und praxisbezogene Grundriss vermittelt in verständlicher Weise das umweltrechtliche Basiswissen.

It is increasingly apparent that capitalism cannot stave off the truly frightening ecological disasters that threaten the future of life on earth.

This book analyses the Habitats Directive; one of the most prominent piece of EU environmental legislation of the past decades.

The climate change problem can only be effectively dealt with if global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be reduced substantially.

Die Ausweitung von Initiativen zur Bepreisung von Kohlenstoff ist von entscheidender Bedeutung, insbesondere in Zeiten eines fragmentierten Klimaregimes und der wachsenden Notwendigkeit, die Ambitionen zu erhohen und die Treibhausgasemissionen zu reduzieren.

The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid economic growth that has characterized recent economic history of China and India, especially over the past few decades.

Safety and health professionals face a variety of potential legal and ethical issues.

At every stage, environmental policy is the result of the combat of stakeholders interested in, and affected by, the problem being addressed and the range of possible solutions.

Urban Mobility and the Smartphone: Transportation, Travel Behavior and Public Policy provides a global synthesis of the transformation of urban mobility by the smartphone, clarifying the definitions of new concepts and objects in mobility studies, accounting for the changes in transportation and travel behavior triggered by the spread of the smartphone, and discussing the implications of these changes for policy-making and research.

This book examines the impact and implications of Japan's withdrawal from the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), which came into effect in July 2019.

Examines the successes and failures of the Clean Air Act in order to lay a foundation for future energy policy.

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.

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order.

The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a "e;land degradation-neutral world.

The first comprehensive treatment of data science as a new and powerful way to understand and manage human-environment interactions.

This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human-earth relationship.

This book examines how nature is constructed through law, building on the constructivist concept that ''nature'' is a self-perpetuating, self-reinforcing social creation.

This book provides a range of perspectives on some of the most pressing contemporary challenges in EU environmental law and governance from some of today's leading European environmental academics and practitioners.

This book investigates multidimensional change in the Arctic and policy response to it.

Food law is a rapidly developing area, with interest being driven at the consumer, handler and farm level.

In this book 60 authors from many disciplines and from 18 countries on five continents examine in ten parts: Moving towards Sustainability Transition; Aiming at Sustainable Peace; Meeting Challenges of the 21st Century: Demographic Imbalances, Temperature Rise and the Climate-Conflict Nexus; Initiating Research on Global Environmental Change, Limits to Growth, Decoupling of Growth and Resource Needs; Developing Theoretical Approaches on Sustainability and Transitions; Analysing National Debates on Sustainability in North America; Preparing Transitions towards a Sustainable Economy and Society, Production and Consumption and Urbanization; Examining Sustainability Transitions in the Water, Food and Health Sectors from Latin American and European Perspectives; Preparing Sustainability Transitions in the Energy Sector; and Relying on Transnational, International, Regional and National Governance for Strategies and Policies Towards Sustainability Transition.

South Asia Migration Report 2020 documents key themes of exploitation and entrepreneurship of migrants from the region.

Though recently improved, Chinese legislation on environmental permits is still weak and urgent measures are needed to help the country in moving towards an effective permitting system.

In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces.

The 1980s was a time of significant social, political and cultural change.

This book discusses the law and practice of the European Union's new chemical regulatory programmes known under the acronym 'REACH'.

El Tomo II del Tratado de Derecho de Aguas, Perspectiva internacional del derecho de aguas para el siglo XXI es resultado de la labor conjunta del Grupo de Investigación en Derecho del Medio Ambiente de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y diversos grupos de investigación extranjeros que unieron esfuerzos para analizar cuestiones estructurales del derecho de aguas general, al tiempo que se identifican los principales temas que actualmente se encuentran en discusión desde la perspectiva de varios ordenamientos jurídicos internacionales, entre ellos la propiedad de las aguas, la planificación, el ordenamiento y política de las aguas, el derecho internacional de las aguas, el estudio jurídico de los fenómenos hidrológicos extremos, la fiscalidad del agua, así como la gestión y gobernanza de los recursos hídricos.

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

The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.

Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice is the definitive work on litigation in the Admiralty Court.

The book sheds new light on the achievements, challenges and legal complexity of the EU as a global environmental actor.

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.

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.

Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation - improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials - since the earliest plant domestications.

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

Since the very beginning of European integration, electricity has been within the legal sphere of the EU.

Reflecting changes in the field during the ten years since the publication of the first edition, Developing a Safety and Health Program, Second Edition examines the elements of a safety and health program and delineates how to incorporate them into an organization's safety efforts.

A comprehensive and original analysis of all major WTO provisions relating to the transit of pipeline gas.

This book argues that communities need better planning to be safely navigated by people with mobility impairment and to facilitate intergenerational aging in place.