Environmental law Books

Book SynopsisManaging environmental issues in planning decisions is now an essential part of the process. The increasing pressure to develop brownfield sites and the publicity around the damage caused by air pollution are just two of the drivers for this growing area of planning practice. The difficulty is that the law relating to these problems is disparate and overseen by different agencies, with the answers hidden deep in often obscure guidance, regulations and case law. It is also developing rapidly as the provisions of the Environment Act 2021 begin to bite. Tom Graham's latest book aims to make some sense of this seemingly chaotic regime to provide developers, their advisors and the planning authorities with a coherent round up of the problems and how to address them by: setting out the main causes for concern created by for example landfill sites or abandoned mines providing practical insights on site and environmental impact assessments explaining the concepts such as air quality, toxicity and verification outlining how environmental law interacts with current planning law such as s106 of the Town and Country Planning Act offering drafting tips for any planning conditions Case studies and a set of invaluable appendices reproducing key guidance in full help to bring it all together, making the book an essential source of reference for everyone involved in developing potentially contaminated sites.

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Book SynopsisPlanning Law and Practice in Northern Ireland provides an interpretive narrative of the statutes, case law and planning procedures that have shaped its planning system, with due regard being given to the combined influences emanating from European Union, UK and Northern Ireland planning governance. The contributions in this book explore the evolution of planning in Northern Ireland and discuss key facets of development management, enforcement, environmental law, equality, property law and professional ethics. This book makes an important contribution to the wider literature in this field and provides an essential reference to students, planning practitioners and researchers.

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Book SynopsisA leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.

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Book SynopsisDavid Boyd shows that recognition of the right to a healthy environment is not only growing, it is having a profound influence on public policy and environmental protection.Trade ReviewWhat sets this book evidently apart from all the existing publications in the field is its empirical approach…in an earlier endorsement for this book’s marketing, I declared that it ‘breaks new ground in terms of approach, content, scope, and methodology and is well worth a place on the bookshelves of anyone who takes environmental rights and governance seriously’. After this recent reassessment of the book, I can only reiterate these sentiments. -- Louis J Kotzé, Professor, North-West University, South Africa * Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 4 No. 1 *Boyd’s book forms an indispensable and influential addition to this literature not only due to the strength and comprehensiveness of its comparative legal analysis, but also because of the important empirical questions it seeks to answer as well as raises for future research. Indeed, by conducting the first serious and systematic empirical study of the environmental implications of the right to a healthy environment, Boyd has moved this field beyond the speculative and abstract arguments typical of earlier scholarship...Boyd’s meticulous examination of the legal status of the right to a healthy environment in close to a hundred countries provides powerful evidence of its salience to legal systemsaround the world...The Environmental Rights Revolution forms an important, pioneering effort for understanding the legal influence and broader significance of the right to a healthy environment. As a result, the variety of empirical puzzles and questions that it leaves in its wake should continue to influence research in this field for many years to come. -- Sebastien Jodoin * McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, Volume 8: Issue 1 *Table of ContentsPart 1: The Emergence and Evolution of a New Human Right1 Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment: The Context2 The Right to a Healthy Environment: Framing the Issues3 The Prevalence and Enforceability of Environmental Provisions in National Constitutions4 The Influence of International LawPart 2: The Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Practice5 A Framework for Assessing the Legal Influence of the Right to a Healthy Environment6 Latin America and the Caribbean7 Africa8 Asia9 Eastern Europe10 Western EuropePart 3: Evaluating the Impacts of Environmental Provisions in Constitutions11 Lessons Learned: Practical Experiences with the Right to a Healthy Environment12 Do Environmental Provisions in Constitutions Influence Environmental Performance?13 An Idea Whose Time Has ComeAppendicesAppendix 1. Research MethodsAppendix 2. Online Database: All Current Environmental Provisions from National ConstitutionsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis Element examines how the discourses on adaptation finance of many developing country negotiators, environmental groups, development charities, academics and international bureaucrats have renewed a specific vision of aid intended to respond to international injustices and to fuel a regular transfer of resources between rich and poor countries.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Climate Impacts: External or Internal Causes?; 3. Moral Duty: Distributive or Corrective Justice?; 4. Allocation: Liberal or Perfectionist Perspective?; 5. Evaluation: Deontological or Consequentialist Attitude?; 6. General Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of this essential book details the present state of EU environmental law as it has developed over the last 50 years. The author was personally involved in its making and enforcement, having worked for more than 30 years in the environmental department of the European Commission. The book therefore provides unique insights into this complex field.The book discusses in detail governance and other horizontal issues, such as competence questions, the division of power between the EU and its Member States, the individual right to a clean environment, and the integration of environmental requirements into other EU policies such as energy, transport, agriculture, fisheries, trade, and tourism. New chapters elaborate on the relationship between UK and EU law after Brexit (written by Christopher Badger) and on the global effect of EU environmental law and policy. Other chapters deal with climate change, biodiversity, water protection, air and noise poll

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Book SynopsisThe book addresses the most pertinent theoretical and practical issues affecting the broad topic of harmonisation in the fields of environmental and energy law in a comprehensive and critical manner. In this respect, it constitutes a timely and meaningful contribution to the ongoing debate on the conceptual underpinnings, legal techniques and sector-specific problems concerned, while enriching the debate and promoting a more enhanced, coordinated regime to tackle environmental and energy issues in the European Union. Environmental legislation is often incoherent and fragmented, creating hurdles to its effective application. Consequently, rule makers need to resort to harmonisation, which is seen as referring to a number of techniques and instruments that all aim to clarify rules and establish a more coherent and solid legal framework. The book examines the merits of this approach within the context of the European Green Deal and the increasing urgency of the environmental and climate crisis, as well as the obstacles encountered and the questions arising from these complex processes. By bringing together more than fifteen renowned experts in the fields of European environmental and energy law, this book aims to dissect the most critical aspects of and obstacles in the process of strengthening coordination and, ultimately, effectiveness of the existing legal regimes in the field of environmental and energy law in the European Union while sparking further research in the field. Harmonisation in EU Environmental and Energy Law is highly recommended reading for legal scholars specialising in European environmental and energy law, as well as practitioners working in these fields.Table of ContentsIntroduction (p. 1) PART I. HARMONISATION THEORY AND TECHNIQUE To Codify or not to Codify EU Environmental Law: That is not the Question (p. 9) Possibilities of and Limits to Codification of EU Environmental Law (p. 27) Harmonising Environmental Standards from the Guadalquivir to the Danube Delta: How can the Circle be Squared? (p. 45) European Multilingualism and Harmonisation of Environmental Law (p. 71) Internal Harmonisation of Environmental Law: Learning from the Member States? (p. 85) Access to Environmental Justice in the EU: Interpretation, Harmonisation and the Search for Consistency (p. 101) Environmental Protection and Symbolic Value of Harmonising Environmental Laws: Is Further Harmonisation the Solution? (p. 129) PART II. HARMONISATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Bridging the Gap between Soil and Climate Change in the EU: The Issue of Soil Organic Carbon (p. 147) Towards More Harmonisation in the Treatment of Wild Animals in the EU? (p. 163) Harmonisation Trends of Environmental Liability Law through the Tools of Civil Law: The Examples of Duty of Care and the Right to Personality (p. 187) PART III. HARMONISATION IN ENERGY LAW Harmonising Oversight of the EU Low-Carbon Power Transition: With an Eye to Sustainability, Energy Justice and Security (p. 207) Europeanisation of Renewable Energy Support Law: A Suspended Step Towards Harmonisation (p. 237) Blind Spots in the Harmonisation for an H2-CCS Chain (p. 255) Conclusion (p. 273)

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of thelawofnetzeroand nature positive across England and Wales. It sets out thelaw, including consideration of the principal domestic legislation, the Climate Change Act 2008, and how legal obligations in respect ofnetzerotranslate across different sectors of the economy.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A one-stop source on global warming, seen through the prism of a brilliant economist."—Fred Andrews, New York TimesSelected as one of the best books of 2013 in the Financial Times"Nordhaus is arguably the world’s leading thinker on the economics of global warming. . . . His conclusion is clear: Acting to stop climate change costs money. Ignoring the problem costs more. . . . Ultimately, this message, delivered by a number-crunching economist rather than a morally outraged environmentalist, may prove far more effective in making the case for action."—Coral Davenport, The New York Times Book Review"When we have a disjunction between scientific consensus and popular perception—that should light a fire under those of us in the news media. An excellent basis for discussion is the new book The Climate Casino by William Nordhaus."—Nicholas Kristof, New York Times"Provides a comprehensive stocktaking of the possibilities and consequences of global climate change, all of which can be summed up in one sentence: 'Global warming is a trillion-dollar problem requiring a trillion-dollar solution.'"—Sheridan Jobbins, World Economic Forum"Few economists have worked as hard on such problems as William Nordhaus and in this new book, he's on top form."—Jonathan Wright, Geographical Magazine"The economic focus of this book should provide a valuable insight into the challenges and barriers that must be overcome for planners and policy makers."—Alexander Waller, The Biologist“Intriguing, captivating reading” —Anna Maria Polidori, AlFemminile BlogspotWon an Honorable Mention for the 2013 New England Book Festival given by the JM Northern Media Family of Festivals, in the General Non-Fiction CategoryWinner of the 2013 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE), in the Economics category"Nordhaus is the world’s clearest, best informed and most serious thinker on climate change policy. There is more insight and good sense advice in this volume than in many libraries. This book should be as central to climate policy debates as climate change is to humanity’s future."—Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University"Bill Nordhaus is one of the world’s pioneers in applying economic reasoning to the harrowing problem of climate change. Before there was the UN climate treaty, the recent rounds of IPCC reports, and the Stern Review, there was Nordhaus’ path-breaking thinking, modeling, and research on the subject. His new book, The Climate Casino, marks a long-awaited update and synthesis of this work for the public and students everywhere. His core conclusion – that we must act and act now – is carefully explained with Nordhaus’ trademark vigor, clarity, and thoughtfulness. Nordhaus repeatedly and rightly reminds the reader of the risks of catastrophic tipping points and the huge unknowns concerning the ability of societies and ecosystems to adapt to the changes ahead. As he aptly puts it, by investing in slowing and eventually halting the emission of greenhouse gases humanity will be paying a well-justified 'insurance premium' for human wellbeing."—Jeffrey D. Sachs, The Earth Institute at Columbia University"The Climate Casino is one of the most important books ever written about global warming . . . it deals with the problem (climate change and its consequences including economic) and with the solution (primarily a suitable price for carbon). It does so with wonderful clarity."—Thomas E. Lovejoy, George Mason University and The H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment"The Climate Casino is a tour de force and will make a real impact in the popular literature on climate change . . . it brings together all of the important strands of the debate . . . the book is without peer."—Charles Kolstad, Stanford University"This is a book written by a master of the field after more than twenty years of research on the global warming topic."—David Victor, Director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, University of California at San Diego

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Book SynopsisThis text offers a critique of the ideological roots of the "Deep Ecology" movement spreading throughout Germany, France and the United States. The author examines European legal cases concerning the status and rights of animals and key ideas that German Romanticism embraced.Table of ContentsPreface. The Passing of the Humanist Era Pt. 1: Animals, or The Confusion of Genres 1: Antinatural Man 2: "Animal Liberation," or The Rights of Creatures 3: Neither Man nor Stone: The Enigmatic Being Pt. 2: The Shadows of the Earth 4: "Think Like a Mountain": The Master Plan of "Deep Ecology" 5: Nazi Ecology: The November 1933, July 1934, and June 1935 Legislations 6: In Praise of Difference, or The Incarnations of Leftism: The Case of Ecofeminism 7: Democratic Ecology and the Question of the Rights of Nature Epilogue. Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: The Three Cultures Index

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Book SynopsisThis book critically explores the legal tools, concepts, principles and instruments, as well as cross-cutting issues, that comprise the field of international environmental law. Commencing with foundational elements, progressing on to discrete sub-fields, then exploring regional cooperative approaches, cross-cutting issues and finally emerging challenges for international environmental law, it features chapters by leading experts in the field of international environmental law, drawn from a range of countries in order to put forward a truly global approach to the subject.The book is split into five parts:â The foundations of international environmental law covering the principles of international environmental law, standards and voluntary commitments, sustainable development, issues of public participation and environmental rights and compliance, state responsibility, liability and dispute settlement.â The key instruments and governance arrangements across the mTable of Contents1. An Introduction To International Environmental Law; 2. Principles, Standards And Voluntary Commitments In IEL; 3. Sustainable Development Law; 4. Compliance, State Responsibility And Liability; 5. Information, Public Participation And Access To Justice In Environmental Matters; 6. Constitutional Environmental Rights, And Rights For The Environment; 7. International Environmental Law Dispute Settlement; 8. Biodiversity, Bio-Security And Bio-Prospecting; 9. International Wildlife Law; 10. International Freshwater Law; 11. Soils, Forestry And Deforestation In International Environmental Law; 12. Fisheries Law; 13. Marine Environmental Protection Law; 14. The Regulation Of Chemicals And Hazardous Waste; 15. Atmospheric And Air Pollution; 16. International Environmental Law And Climate Change; 17. European Environmental Law; 18. Canada, The Us And International Environmental Law; 19. International Environmental Law In Latin America; 20. Africa And International Environmental Law; 21. South-East Asian Regional Environmental Legal Governance And Asean; 22. International Environmental Law And Small Island States; 23. Polar Law And Good Governance; 24. Human Rights And International Environmental Law; 25. The Collective Rights Of Indigenous Peoples And Environmental Destruction; 26. Trade And Environment; 27. International Environmental Law, Financing And Investment; 28. Crime And Environment; 29. Technology As A Tool For Implementation, Compliance And Enforcement; 30. Nuclear Energy And International Environmental Law: Points Of Intersection And Integration; 31. Protection Of The Environment During Armed Conflict And Post-Conflict; 32. Global Plastic Pollution: Curbing Single Use Plastic Production; 33. Climate Migration; 34. Climate Law, Environmental Law, And The Schism Ahead; 35. Future Directions For International Environmental Law

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Book SynopsisThe Law of Trees, Forests and Hedges is the only comprehensive work on this complex area of law an uncoordinated mix of private and public law, common law and statute - as it applies throughout the United Kingdom. It explains the general law on trees, outlines the law relating to commercial forestry, and discusses the protections for important trees and hedgerows, ancient woodlands and historic landscapes.

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Book SynopsisLaw and Ecology: New Environmental Foundations contains a series of theoretical and applied perspectives on the connection between law and ecology, which together offer a radical and socially responsive foundation for environmental law. While its legal corpus grows daily, environmental law has not enjoyed the kind of jurisprudential underpinning generally found in other branches of law. This book forges a new ecological jurisprudential foundation for environmental law  where ecological'' is understood both in the narrow sense of a more ecosystemic perspective on law, and in the broad sense of critical self-reflection of the mechanisms of environmental law as they operate in a context where boundaries between the human and the non-human are collapsing, and where the traditional distinction between ecocentrism and anthropocentrism is recast. Addressing current debates, including the intellectual property of bioresources; the protection of biodiversity in view of tribal lTable of Contents1. Looking for the Space between Law and Ecology, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos 2. Towards a Critical Environmental Law, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos 3. Foucauldian Inspired Discourse Analysis: A Contribution to Critical Environmental Law Scholarship?, Bettina Lange 4. The Ecological Narrative of Risk and the Emergence of Toxic Tort Litigation, Jo Goodie 5. The Precautionary Principle: Practical Reason, Regulatory Decision-Making and Judicial Review in the context of Functional Differentiation, John Paterson 6. Biotechnology as Environmental Regulation, Alain Pottage 7. Perspectives on Environmental Law and the Law Relating to Sustainability: A Continuing Role for Ecofeminism?, Karen Morrow 8. Animals and the Future Salvation of the World, Piyel Haldar 9. Seeking Spacial and Environmental Justice for People and Places Within the EU, Antonia Layard and Jane Holder 10. Heterotopias of the Environment: Law’s Forgotten Spaces, Andreas Kotsakis 11. Deleuze and the Defence of Nature, Mark Halsey

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Book SynopsisAgricultural Policy in the United States: Evolution and Economics traces U.S. agricultural policy from its colonial roots to the present, using economic concepts to analyze and interpret political and economic consequences. It also examines the processes by which agricultural policies are developed, and the government structure which supports the implementation of legislation passed by Congress. The book includes arguments for and against common tools of U.S. agricultural policy, without influencing the reader in a particular direction. Each chapter contains questions and exercises to support studentsâ learning, and technical economic material is contained in optional appendices. This second edition examines the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 and sets the scene for future policy developments. Additionally, it looks at trade wars and the impact of Black Swan events like the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural resilience.Table of Contents1. Introduction: What is Agricultural Policy and Why Does it Exist? 2. Economic Concepts Applied to Agricultural and Food Policy. 3. Who Makes Agricultural Policy and How is it Made? 4. A Brief History of Agricultural Policy. 5. Early 20th Century Agricultural Legislation. 6. McNary-Haugens and the Permanent Legislation to the 1950’s. 7. The 1960s to Mid-1980s: Transition and Farm Crises. 8. Planting Flexibility and Direct Payments, 1985-1996. 9. 21st Century Agricultural Legislation. 10. International Trade - Is it the Future of U.S. Agricultural Policy? 11. Agricultural Policy Since 2014. 12. The Future of Agricultural Policy

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Book SynopsisDisciplined by industrial clock time, modern life distances people from nature''s biorhythms such as its ecological, evolutionary, and climatic processes. The law is complicit in numerous ways. It compresses time through ''fast-track'' legislation and accelerated resource exploitation. It suffers from temporal inertia, such as ''grandfathering'' existing activities that limits the law''s responsiveness to changing circumstances. Insouciance about past ecological damage, and neglect of its restoration, are equally serious temporal flaws: we cannot live sustainably while Earth remains degraded and unrepaired. Applying international and interdisciplinary perspectives on these issues, Time and Environmental Law explores how to align law with the ecological ''timescape'' and enable humankind to ''tell nature''s time''. Lending insight into environmental behaviour and impacts, this book pioneers a new understanding of environmental law for all societies, and makes recommendations for its refTable of Contents1. It's time; 2. Temporalities of change; 3. The ever-present now; 4. Rear vision; 5. Rallentare; 6. Telling the time.

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Book SynopsisDegrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful forintervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global.The result is the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.More information at: vocabulary.degrowth.orgView the author spotlight featuring events and press related to degrowth at http://t.co/k9qbQpyuYp.Trade Review‘One of the most thorough and insightful presentations and discussion of economic theory and practice in the field of de-growth economics, a revolutionary attempt to understand the economy as if humans and Nature matter.’ -- Manuel Castells, University of California, Berkeley, USA‘At a time in history when political, economic and intellectual leaders assure us that nothing fundamental can any longer be questioned, nothing could be more important than the movement - of thought, and of action – that this volume on Degrowth represents. It raises the prospect of finally ejecting the twin demons of productivism and consumerism that are responsible for so many historical failures of the left as well as the right, and begins to set about the real work of imagining and building a society fit for human beings to live in.’ -- David Graeber, London School of Economics, UK.‘The most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English … the definitive international reference.’ -- Australian Quarterly‘This book should be compulsory reading for all students everywhere. The authorities would be well advised to ban it. Perhaps, as in ‘Fahrenheit 451’, in the transition to degrowth global societies idealists will memorize some of these short and inspiring prose poems showing that another world is possible.’ -- Leslie Sklair, The British Journal of Sociology‘Without question, the publication of this volume is a welcome addition to the literature on degrowth.’ -- Andrew J. Sutter, Ecological Economics‘An essential resource to initiate the much needed debate for socio-ecological justice across the planet.’ -- Brototi Roy, Antipode‘An invitation to think differently, imagine different futures, and desire differently.’ – Panos Petridis, International Development Planning Review‘An indispensable point of reference to the politics of degrowth [which] offers a map to the world of alternatives to capitalisms.’ -- Silvia Federici, Hofstra University, USA.‘A thought-provoking, wide-ranging, spirited, and deeply original analysis; this book is a must-read on degrowth debates.’ -- Karen Bakker, University of British Columbia, Canada.‘Illuminates diverse concepts for clear thinking, provides new languages for political discourse, and outlines the many steps we can take to recreate our economy, our lives, and our relations to planet Earth. Call it what you want: happiness, living within limits, community, real democracy – DeGrowth both calls and empowers us to bold action.’ -- Richard Norgaard, University of California, Berkeley, USA.‘A vital resource for those who want to engage with degrowth.’ -- Massimo De Angelis, University of East London, UK.‘A comprehensive exploration of the various dimensions of degrowth.’ -- Ashish Kothari, member of Kalpavriksh, Puna; and co-author of "Churning the earth: The Making of Global India".‘Reinventing the growth trajectory is equally critical for the rest of the world in this age of climate risk and present and future danger. Degrowth is then the new vocabulary that we must learn and practice.’ -- Sunita Narain, Centre of Science and Environment, India; Editor, Down To Earth magazine.‘In times marked by political stupor, it is refreshing to have such a light-footed guide through a universe of anti-mainstream ideas ranging from conviviality to Ubuntu, and from urban gardening to entropy.’ -- Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Founder, Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen Adria University, Austria.‘For the poor to grow up to a steady-state economy that is sufficient for a good life and sustainable for a long future, the rich must make ecological space by de-growing down to the same sufficient (not luxurious) steady-state level. Essays in this collection recognize the necessity to face this difficult convergent task of justly sharing our finite world.’ -- Herman Daly, University of Maryland, USA.‘Exciting and deeply subversive.’ -- Clive Hamilton, Charles Sturt University and University of Melbourne, Australia‘This exciting book is a pioneering exploration of the recently come-of-age field of degrowth economics and policy. It will be landmark for all those who want to transcend the growth fetish that has so many enthralled today.’ -- James Gustave Speth, Vermont Law School, Royalton.‘This timely book takes us a great step forward by providing an impressive collection of concepts and ideas related to the degrowth debate.’ -- Inge Røpke, Aalborg University, Denmark.‘Indispensable for anybody interested in moving beyond mere retrofit solutions to the most important economic and ecological conundrums of our time.’ -- Deepak Malghan, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India, and Princeton University, USA‘What a splendid vocabulary! A range of international authors brilliantly surveys the emerging field of an economics which bids farewell to the obsession of growth. The entries are compact yet eloquent, learned yet action-oriented. Whoever wants to know more about an economy of permanence for the 21th century should reach for this book.’ -- Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute, Berlin, Germany.‘The definitive collection on degrowth … an invaluable source of knowledge and inspiration for anyone interested academically or politically in alternative ways of thinking and acting about the environment and development.’ -- Maria Kaika, University of Manchester, UK.‘Degrowth takes the false coin of economic growth via capital accumulation and confronts it head on. The essential message for our time.’ -- John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon, USA‘An encyclopaedic compendium, at once widely accessible and deeply informative.’ -- Ariel Salleh, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany.‘Like it or not, this persistence of degrowth must be recognized, and credit given to its capacity of spurring new debates and new forms of social mobilization, appealing to all those who continue to see ‘growth’ as a false solution to social problems and a true disaster for the environment.’ -- Stefania Barca, University of Coimbra, Portugal.‘Will it be possible to escape from the monster of growth? We need to think new utopias to orient us. And these one can find in this book.’ -- Alberto Acosta, Economist and ex-President of the National Constitutional Assembly of Ecuador‘A must read for all those who firmly believe that modern economy has reached its dead-end.’ -- Sudhirendar Sharma, Independent Environmental ConsultantTable of ContentsPreface Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgios Kallis Foreword Francois Schneider and Fabrice FlipoIntroduction: Degrowth Giorgios Kallis, Federico Demaria, Giacomo D'Alisa Part 1: Lines of thought 1.Anti-utilitarianism: Onofrio Romano 2. Bio-economics: Mauro Bonaiuti 3. Development, Critiques of: Arturo Escobar 4. Environmental Justice: Isabelle Anguelovski 5. Environmentalism, Currents of: Joan Martinez-Alier 6. Metabolism, Societal: Alevgul Sorman 7. Political ecology: Susan Paulson 8. Steady-state economics: Joshua Farley Part 2: The core 9. Autonomy: Marco Deriu 10. Capitalism: Diego Andreucci and Terrence McDonough 11. Care: Marco Deriu, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria 12. Commodification Erik Gomez 13. Commodity frontiers: Marta Conde and Mariana Walter 14. Commons: Silke Helfrich and David Bollier 15. Conviviality: Marco Deriu 16. Dematerialization: Sylvia Lorek 17. Dépense: Onofrio Romano 18. Depoliticization ("the Political"): Erik Swyngedouw 19. Disaster Pedagogy: Serge Latouche 20. Entropy: Sergio Ulgiati 21. Emergy: Sergio Ulgiati 22. GDP: Daniel O'Neil 23. Growth: Peter Victor 24. Happiness: Filka Sekulova 25. Imaginary, Decolonization of: Serge Latouche 26. Jevons' paradox: Blake Alcott 27. Neo-Malthusians: Joan Martinez-Alier 28. Peak oil: Christian Kerschner 29. Simplicity: Samuel Alexander 30. Social limits of growth: Giorgos KallisPart 3: The Action 31. Back-to-the-landers: Rita Calvario and Iago Otero 32. Basic and maximum income: Samuel Alexander 33. Community currencies: Kristoffer Dittmer 34. Cooperatives: Nadia Johanisova, Ruben Suriñach Padilla and Philippa Parry 35. Debt audit: Sergi Cutillas, David Llistar and Gemma Tarafa 36. Digital commons: Mayo Fuster Morell 37. Disobedience: Xavier Renou 38. Eco-communities: Claudio Cattaneo 39. Indignados (Occupy): Viviana Asara and Barbara Muraca 40. Job Guarantee: Brandon Unti 41. Money, Public: Mary Mellor 42. New Economy: Tim Jackson 43. Nowtopians: Chris Carlsson 44. Post-normal science: Giacomo D’Alisa and Giorgios Kallis 45. Unions: Denis Bayon 46. Urban Gardening: Isabelle Anguelovski 47. Work-sharing: Juliet Schor Part 4: Alliances 48. Buen Vivir: Eduardo Gudynas 49. Economy of permanence: Chiara Corazza and Victus Solomon 50. Feminist economics: Antonella Picchio 51. Ubuntu: Mogobe B. Ramose Epilogue: From austerity to dépense: Giacomo D'Alisa, Giorgios Kallis and Federico Demaria

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Book SynopsisThis concise study guides gives you an overview of the main areas of environmental law in Scotland: statutory nuisance, noise, air pollution, climate change, waste, contaminated land, water pollution and nature conservation. In addition, it includes a discussion of the role of town planning in the control of pollution.

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Book SynopsisA stimulating review of contemporary land reform in Scotland

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"van Zeben and Rowell have provided an accessible interdisciplinary resource that helps readers to understand three major environmental issues and the laws intended to regulate their causes and effects. . . . With or without a background in law, readers can quickly and easily engage with the book content." * Technical Communication *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Spotlight Boxes Preface Part One. Building Blocks of EU Environmental Law 1. Regulating Environmental Impacts 2. Key Actors 3. Types of Law 4. Regulatory Instruments Part Two. EU Environmental Law 5. Contextualizing EU Environmental Law 6. Pollution Control Air Pollution Water Pollution Soil Pollution Chemical Substances Waste Management 7. Ecosystem Management Biodiversity WildlifeSpecial Ecosystems Management: Habitats Agriculture 8. Climate Change Mitigation Adaptation and Natural Hazards Conclusions Acknowledgments Appendix 1. Time Line of EU Environmental Law Appendix 2. Membership of the EU Additional Resources Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Rule of Five is the gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the US Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus’s compelling narrative is enlivened by colorful characters, a canny dissection of courtroom strategy, and a case where the stakes are, literally, as big as the world. -- Scott Turow, author of Presumed InnocentIn the tradition of A Civil Action, this book makes a compelling story of the court fight that paved the way for regulating the emissions now overheating the planet. It offers a poignant reminder of how far we’ve come—and how far we still must go. -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of NatureWonderful…The inside story of how this case came to be, how its lawyers struggled and fought over theories and roles, and how the late Justice John Paul Stevens patched together the five votes needed to secure a majority…Lazarus walks readers through all of the procedural steps and legal theories that surrounded this case, using lucid prose that is easy for nonlawyers to follow. The book is a master class in how the Supreme Court works and, more broadly, how major cases navigate through the legal system. -- Michael B. Gerrard * Science *Gripping…Weaves the tale of how Mendelson’s petition led to the landmark decision, how he brought along the other environmental advocates despite bitter infighting, and how missteps by their opponents gave the lawsuit wings. Lazarus, who interviewed participants in the case, from lawyers to Supreme Court justices, writes like a novelist. -- Caroline Fredrickson * Washington Monthly *In vivid detail, with every sentence clear to a nonlawyer, Lazarus traces the story of the case through eight years of ups and downs…A riveting story, beautifully told. -- Jessica T. Mathews * Foreign Affairs *[A] masterpiece…Offers a behind-the-scenes look at every aspect of the case, from the Bush administration’s fierce opposition to the internecine conflicts among the petitioners to the razor-thin 5-4 victory. * E *The Rule of Five is the definitive inside account of one of the key court decisions of our time. It’s also more than that. Richard Lazarus makes vivid the culture of the Supreme Court and the sheer unlikeliness of history. There’s no better book if you want to understand the past, present, and future of environmental litigation. -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth ExtinctionA character-driven thriller about how climate change came to the fore of U.S. politics and legal action…An exciting, tension-filled analysis of an improbable environmental triumph and an influential federal ruling whose effects have rippled out to the other branches of government, the states, and the private sector ever since. -- Rachel Jagareski * Foreword Reviews *The Rule of Five is a compelling read on a critical and timely topic. It mixes storytelling with a soup-to-nuts view of a pivotal case contested across all three branches of government. The focus on the six Carbon Dioxide Warriors adds to the richness of the story and demonstrates how the often-abstract nature of the law can actually be very personality-driven. Lazarus also does an excellent job illuminating the inner workings of the Supreme Court and of the second most important court in the land—the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. -- Dan Reicher, former US Assistant Secretary of EnergyAs legal drama, The Rule of Five is a tour de force. It offers a look into the inner workings of the nation’s highest court, and a history of its most important environmental decision. With impressive research, including interviews with the key players, and succinct explanations of relevant law and Supreme Court practice, the narrative makes the story accessible to anyone interested in this case, the Court, and the future of the planet. -- Jonathan Z. Cannon, author of Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme CourtThe author weaves details from justices’ biographies, court lore, personal familiarity, and anonymous sources into a vivid account of how the nine justices’ post-argument private conference in Massachusetts v. EPA would have played out. -- Michael Nordskog * Westlaw Journal Environmental *Lazarus takes the reader through the long and laborious journey toward that landmark decision, which required the EPA to regulate auto emissions and other gases under the Clean Air Act…[A] timely book. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed. It mandates protection and preservation of all the nation’s species and biodiversity, whatever the cost. It has been a lightning rod for controversy and conflicts between industry/business and environmentalists.The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of this law, and provides an opportunity for a measured and thorough evaluation thereof. We cannot know today’s challenges and opportunities without understanding their histories. This book is the most comprehensive history of the ESA ever published, and the first to consider the entire history of the law from all angles in a single volume.The history of the ESA has been one of increasing impact, complexity, and controversy. In 1978, the Supreme Court declared that Congress intended for the U.S. government to save all species at any cost, and thereafter application of the ESA became steadily more controversial, as seen in the example of the northern spotted owl and the timber wars in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early 90s, and then everywhere as the ESA became a political football in the highly partisan environment of the late 1990s and amendments to the law ceased.This book is not only a history, but a call to action. It will take more conservation, more funding, and more innovative solutions if we are to save our wildlife and biodiversity. It will take the engagement to every American to muster the collective will to meet this challenge. The hope of this book is that we will be able to look back and say that we accomplished more in the second 50 years of the ESA than we did in the first.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Guide to Acronyms and Terms Foreword Prologue: Peril and Promise Dedication Part I: The Evolution of the Endangered Species Act Chapter 1: The Evolution of Wildlife Management and the Extinction Crisis Prior to 1973 Wildlife in Early American History Sportsmen Emerge as the Driving Force for Wildlife Conservation Post-Civil War Views of Wildlife Protective Actions After 1900 The Development of Professional Wildlife Management The Early Days The Leopold Era The American Game Policy of 1930 Education, Funding, and Federal Aid The Evolution Towards Wildlife Protection Wildlife and Environmental Laws from the 1960s to Today 1973: A Watershed Year for Wildlife Management Chapter 2: The Creation of the Endangered Species Act – 1966, 1969 and 1973 The Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966 The Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969 Endangered Species Legislation: 1971 Endangered Species Legislation: 1972 The House – 1972 The Senate – 1972 1973 – The House 1973 – The Senate 1973 – Conference Committee and Final Approval Chapter 3: Implementing the Endangered Species Act of 1973: 1974–1980 The Nixon Administration and Passage of the Endangered Species Act The Ford Administration and Implementation of the Endangered Species Act Regulating Threatened Species Implementing Section 6: Cooperation with the States The 1976 Scrimshaw Amendment The Carter Administration and the End of the Environmental Consensus of the 1960s Continuing to Implement the Endangered Species Act Under the Carter Administration The 1977 Section 6 Amendment and an Ominous Congressional Omission The Infamous Tellico Dam and the Snail Darter Congress and the Tellico Dam The Endangered Species Committee Completing the Tellico Dam Further Amendments in 1978 Section 7 Consultation Listing Procedures and Critical Habitat Recovery Plans Other Significant Amendments in 1978 Minor Amendments in 1978 1979: Additional Minor Amendments to the Endangered Species Act The Endangered Species Act at the End of the 1970s. Chapter 4: The Endangered Species Act and the Reagan Administration: Reversals and Progress: 1980-1988 The Reagan Revolution The Reagan Administration in Action The Endangered Species Act Under Reagan 1982: A Second Major Amendment to the Endangered Species Act New Statutory Deadlines for ESA Functions Minor Amendments to Sections 4 and 6 Amendments to Section 7 New Provisions in 1982: Experimental Populations, Habitat Conservation Plans and a Foundation for the Future Experimental Populations Habitat Conservation Plans Endangered Species and International Trade: Implementation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora 1979-1982: CITES and the Bobcat Controversy Fleshing out Endangered Species Act Regulations New Tools for Conservation Under Reagan The Reagan Administration and Management of Controversial Species Black-footed Ferrets and California Condors The Reagan Administration and Wolves 1985-1986: Wolf and Predator Management Controversies in Congress 1988: The Last Major Amendment to the ESAProvisions of the 1988 Amendment The Endangered Species Act After Reagan Chapter 5: The Northern Spotted Owl and the George H.W. Bush Administration: 1986-1994 The Northern Spotted Owl George H.W. Bush and Environmental Policy George H.W. Bush and the Endangered Species Act The Northern Spotted Owl and the Timber Wars The Timber Wars Continued – Managing Old-growth Forests and Spotted Owls The Timber Wars Saga – Failures of Planning Partisanship, Radicalization, and Legislative Gridlock 1992: Failure to Reauthorize the Endangered Species Act The 1992 Presidential Election The Northwest Forest Plan The Legacy of the Spotted Owl Chapter 6: The Clinton Administration: Partisanship and Partnership: 1992-2000 The Clinton Administration and the Environment The Endangered Species Act on the Defensive in the 104th Congress The Clinton Administration on the Defensive Improving the Endangered Species Act: “No Surprises” For Habitat Conservation Plans The Ten Point Plan Safe Harbor Agreements Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances The Policy for Evaluation of Conservation Efforts When Making Listing Decisions Crisis in the Listing Program: The 1995-1996 Government Shutdown and the Listing Moratorium The 1996 Presidential Election The Sweet Home Case Distinct Population Segments of Vertebrate Species The Clinton Administration and Wolves Improving Application of the Endangered Species Act The ESA in Congress in the Late 1990s The Endangered Species Act at the Turn of the Century Chapter 7: Litigation and Collaboration: The George W. Bush Administration: 2000-2008 The 2000 Presidential Election President George W. Bush and the Environment The Bush Administration’s Conservative Approach to Environmental Protection The Bush Administration and Forest Management Conserving Endangered Species Through Cooperation The Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005: Congress’ Most Serious Threat to the ESA Critical Habitat on Department of Defense Lands Controversy Surrounding Implementation of the Endangered Species Act Under George W. Bush Listing Species Under the Endangered Species Act Delisting Gray Wolves The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzly Bear Listing the Polar Bear The Endangered Species Act in Transition: A Retrospective of the Bush Years Chapter 8: Progress, Reversals, and Uncertainty: Obama, Trump, and Biden: 2008-2021 The 2008 Presidential Election President Barack Obama, Congress, and the Environment The Obama Administration and the Endangered Species Act The Multidistrict Litigation and Listing and Delisting Species The Multidistrict Litigation Settlements and Collaborative Conservation: The Lesser Prairie Chicken Facilitating Collaborative Conservation: The Greater Sage-Grouse Embracing Compensatory Mitigation The Future of the Greater Sage-Grouse Formalizing Species Status Assessments and Conserving Pollinators Improving the Listing Process The “Significant Portion of Its Range” Policy and Other Endangered Species Act Issues The 2016 Presidential Election The Donald J. Trump Administration Environmental Policy Under Trump Revising Greater Sage-Grouse Management Plans Listing and Delisting Species Major Regulatory Changes to the ESA The 2020 Presidential Election The Biden Administration Biden Administration Appointees Biden’s Wildlife Policies Fifty Years of Implementing the Endangered Species Act Part II: Contemporary Issues of the Endangered Species Act Chapter 9: Federalism and Preemption: The Nationalization of American Wildlife Management and the Origins of State-Federal Tension Under the Endangered Species Act The Evolution of Federalism and Preemption From the Mayflower Compact to the US Constitution, 1620-1787 Defining the New Government and the Separation of Powers: 1787-1835 Westward Expansion, the First Industrial Revolution, Dual Sovereignty, and the Public Trust Doctrine: 1835-1861 The Civil War, Reconstruction, the Advent of the Second Industrial Revolution, the Enduring Public Trust Doctrine, and State Ownership of Wildlife: 1861-1896 America’s Changing Culture: Market Hunting, the Lacey Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the Beginning of the Progressive Era: 1896-1910 The Ethos of the Industrial Revolution Drives the Progressive Movement into America’s Social Fabric and Laws: 1910-1919 Prohibition and Reform: The Emergence of the Administrative State: 1919-1933 The Great Depression, FDR’s New Deal, and a “New” Supreme Court Overwhelms States’ Rights: 1933-1941 The Competing Ideologies that Characterized the Progressive Movement and Beyond: 1890-1940 The Stone Court and the Development of the Presumption Against Preemption in Rice: 1941-1946 The End of the State Wildlife Ownership Doctrine Following World War II: 1946-1969 The Burger Court – State Ownership of Wildlife Declared a Legal Fiction and Anachronism: 1969-1986 The Rehnquist Court: A Continued Swing Towards Conservative Federalism and Preemption: 1986-2005 The Roberts Court and the Development of Area-Specific Jurisprudence: 2005-2022 The Future of Federal Preemption of State Authority Over Wildlife, and the Presumption Against Preemption Doctrine in Wildlife Cases The Endangered Species Act of 1973 and Federalism: The Interpretation and Application of Section 6 The Legislative History of Section 6 of the ESA The House Bill – H.R. 37 The States’ Role under H.R. 37 as Introduced House Committee Debates and Amendments The Senate Bill – S. 1983 The States’ Role Under S. 1983 as Introduced Senate Committee Debates and Amendments Conference Reconciliation and Presidential Approval The Erosion of the States’ Cooperative Role 1975 Regulatory Interpretation of Section 6 Section 6 ESA Amendments, 1976-1978 The 1979 Regulatory Interpretation of Section 6 Section 6 ESA Amendments, 1980 – 1982 Section 6 ESA Amendments – 1988 1994 Section 6(a) Policy 2016 Section 6(a) Policy Judicial Interpretation of Section 6 Confusion over the Extent of the ESA’s Preemption in 1992 Alaska’s Section 6(a) Claim The Future of State and Federal Cooperation and Coordination under the Endangered Species Act Contemporary Challenges for Federalism and State-Federal Cooperation in Wildlife Management Funding Endangered Species Conservation: The Achilles Heel of the ESA Chapter 10: The Constitutional Foundations of the Endangered Species Act The Commerce Clause Principles Nos. 1, 2 and 3: The Substantial Effect, Economic Principle, and Rational Basis Tests Principle No. 4: The De minimis and Aggregation Principle Principle No. 5: Habitat Modification/The Proximate Cause Test Principle No. 6: A Substantial Relationship to the National Interest The Treaty Clause The Spending Clause The Property Clause Chapter 11: Endangered Species Recovery and Delisting: Principles, Application, and Obstacles: Part I – Definitions and State and Private Programs Recovery Under the Endangered Species Act Standards for Recovery and Delisting Early Recovery Planning and Legislative Amendments Contents of a Recovery Plan Recovery in the Courts Case Study: Whooping Crane Recovery: Charting New Waters State and Private Leadership in Recovery Plan Development and Implementation Case Study: The Delmarva Fox Squirrel Case Study: The Kirtland’s Warbler Case Study: Private Conservation Efforts: The Peregrine Falcon Case Study: The California Condor Chapter 12: Endangered Species Recovery and Delisting: Principles, Application, and Obstacles: Part II – Federal Programs, Accomplishments, and Challenges Recovery Efforts by Federal Agencies National Wildlife Refuges The National Park Service The U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management The Department of Defense The Sikes Act Case Study: The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers and the Department of Defense Additional Woodpecker Conservation Efforts The Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program The Sentinel Landscapes Program The Record of Recovery Under the Endangered Species Act Case Studies in Rapid Recovery Case Study: Bald Eagle Case Study: American Alligator Post-Delisting Monitoring Downlisting Recovery Challenges: Inadequate Recovery FundingCase Study: Black-Footed Ferret Recovery Challenges: Inadequate Data and Planning for Recovery Recovery and Ecosystem Conservation Recovery and Delisting of Conservation Reliant Species Recent Progress and Future Prospects for Improvements to Recovery Planning Reflections on Fifty Years of Recovery Chapter 13: Collaborative Conservation: An Alternative to the Endangered Species Act: Part I – Collaborative Conservation Across America Collaborative Conservation Defined Early Collaboration in Conservation Tools of Collaborative Conservation Legal Mechanisms of Collaborative Conservation Farm Bill Funding for Collaborative Conservation Programs and Resources for Landowners Regulatory Certainty for Landowners Under the Endangered Species Act Collaborative Conservation in the Malpai Borderlands Region Collaborative Conservation and Grizzly Bear Recovery The Blackfoot Challenge: Managing Human/Wildlife Conflicts Through Partnership The Louisiana Black Bear The Black Bear Conservation Committee Louisiana Black Bear Conservation Louisiana Black Bear Recovery Innovative Approaches to Protecting Migration Corridors Voluntary Conservation in Maine The Pingree Forest Partnership Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument The Atlantic Salmon The Downeast Salmon Federation The Downeast Lakes Land Trust The Penobscot River Restoration Trust The Longleaf Forest The Gopher Tortoise Chapter 14: Collaborative Conservation: An Alternative to the Endangered Species Act: Part II – Case Studies and Lessons Learned Greater Sage-Grouse Beginnings of Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation Planning Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation Federal Land Management Planning and Greater Sage-Grouse The Greater Sage-Grouse and Partisan Politics The Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Sage Grouse Initiative Other Sage-Grouse Conservation Programs Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation Success The Greater Sage-Grouse’s Future The Bi-State Sage-Grouse The Gunnison Sage-Grouse New England Cottontail The New England Cottontail Conservation Strategy New England Cottontail Conservation Partners New England Cottontail Results Forging a Future of Collaboration: Conservation Without Conflict Lessons of Collaborative Conservation The Promise of Collaborative Conservation – A Roadmap for Our Future Chapter 15: Wildlife Conservation and Biodiversity Fifty Years After the Endangered Species Act The Present Crises The Role of the Endangered Species Act Landscape-Scale Conservation The Record of the Endangered Species Act: Successes and Limitations People: The Missing Ingredient in Wildlife Conservation The Endangered Species Act: Funding and Incentives Improving the Endangered Species Act Accessing Funding Increasing Flexibility Enabling Partnerships The Present Opportunity Acknowledgements Appendix 1: Federal Environmental and Consumer-Protection Statutes and Agencies Established during the 1960s and 1970s Green Revolution Appendix 2: The Endangered Species Act of 1973, As Enacted Appendix 3: The Endangered Species Act of 1973, As Amended Today Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisToday’s electric power companies compete to provide cleaner electricity. That’s a good thing, but progress has come with costs, especially for communities reliant on the coal industry. Thomas McGarity examines the changes of recent decades and offers ideas for building a more sustainable grid while easing the economic downsides of coal’s demise.Trade ReviewIn revealing many encouraging emission reductions by the electric power industry, Thomas O. McGarity shows what citizen action, regulation, and competition can contribute to expanding energy efficiencies and renewables like solar and wind. This book is a well-documented, eye-opening antidote to the ‘doom and gloom’ enveloping so many concerned people. -- Ralph Nader, author of Breaking through Power: It’s Easier than We ThinkPollution, Politics, and Power is a tour de force, analyzing environmental regulation of the power industry over the last half-century. With unmatched mastery, McGarity illuminates the current policy debates by placing them in their historical context, with a bull’s-eye on coal. -- Richard Lazarus, author of The Making of Environmental LawHistorians of all stripes will find much to value in Tom McGarity’s impressive new book…a masterful history of the industry’s recent past…Scholars will benefit greatly from McGarity’s exceedingly useful and easy-to-understand treatment of the byzantine regulations governing the power sector…Will likely stand as the definitive recent history of the electricity industry and rapidly declining fortunes of coal, setting the standard for anyone writing on these topics. -- William Boyd * Technology and Culture *

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Book SynopsisCompliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it influences various fields and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has remained siloed along different disciplinary domains, regulatory and legal spheres, and mechanisms and interventions. This handbook bridges these divides to provide the first one-stop overview of what compliance is, how we can best study it, and the core mechanisms that shape it. Written by leading experts, chapters offer perspectives from across law, regulatory studies, management science, criminology, economics, sociology, and psychology. This volume is the definitive and comprehensive account of compliance.Trade Review'This Handbook is an indispensable resource for academics and practitioners interested in compliance and ethics. The book assembles an impressive array of leading experts who tackle critical issues from a variety of perspectives. It is essential reading for those interested in controlling organizational misconduct.' Jennifer Arlen, New York University School of Law, editor of The Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing'This Handbook is a gold mine for those serious about comprehending the complexities of compliance in building more effective governance and more decent, less dominating, societies.' John Braithwaite, RegNet, Australia National University, author of Responsive Regulation and Crime, Shame and Integration'It turns out there is a solid 'science of compliance,' and it is represented instructively in this thoroughgoing volume.' Robert Cialdini, Psychology and Marketing, Arizona State University, author of Influence and Pre-suasion'Students, scholars and policy makers have good reason to be grateful to van Rooij and Sokol for assembling in one place so much of what needs to be known about regulation. This rich panoply of paradigms and perspectives collects outstanding work with which to understand the persistent struggle to move beyond ceremonial compliance and actually align performance with legally mandated requirements.' Susan S. Silbey, Sociology and Anthropology, Sloan School of Management, MIT, author of The Common Place of Law'Utilizing a broad brush in thinking about compliance, van Rooij and Sokol have brought together an interdisciplinary who's who of thought leaders who tackle essential issues of conceptualization, operationalization and measurement, and the mechanisms that shape compliance.' Sally S. Simpson, Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, author of Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control'This sweeping book is an invaluable compendium of key insights gleaned from hundreds of studies on all aspects of compliance. Tapping into scholarship from a wide array of domains, the authors strip away disciplinary jargon and provide structure to enable readers of all backgrounds to learn how government and private-sector rules are established, monitored, and enforced.' Michael Toffel, Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business SchoolTable of ContentsPart I. Compliance Concepts and Approaches; Part II. Deterrence and Incapacitation; Part III. Incentives; Part IV. Legitimacy and Social Norms; Part V. Capacity and Opportunity; Part VI. Compliance and Cognition; Part VII. Management and Organizational Processes; Part VIII. Measuring and Evaluating Compliance; Part IX. Analysis of Particular Fields.

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Book SynopsisThe A Practical Approach series is the perfect partner for practice work. Each title focuses on one field of the law and provides a comprehensive overview of the subject together with clear, practical advice and tips on issues likely to arise in practice. The books are also an excellent resource for those new to the law, where the expert overview and clear layout promotes clarity and ease of understanding. A Practical Approach to Environmental Law provides comprehensive coverage of the full range of law and legislation relating to the environment, including; The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004; the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004; and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, written in a clear and user-friendly style. To ensure accessibility and ease of reference, the book is organized into three sections, focussing in turn on; the principles of environmental protection such as the polluter pays principle, the precautionary principle, Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION; PART II: SUBSTANTIVE AREAS OF LAW; PART III: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

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Book SynopsisThe development of modern international environmental law has been one of the most remarkable exercises in international law-making. Although far more law and policy exists in this area than a quarter of a century ago, the global environment is in a much worse state: challenges remain in relation to the poor health of the oceans, climate change, the growing loss of biodiversity and ecosystems, and the other effects of human mismanagement of our global ecosystem, including global pandemics. As conservation of the environment plays an increasingly important role within society, Birnie, Boyle, and Redgwell''s International Law and the Environment continues to be an essential read for students and practitioners alike. Written by experts in the field Birnie, Boyle, and Redgwell''s International Law and the Environment places legislation on the protection of the environment firmly at the core of the text, while remaining rooted in the substantive law. The authors employ sharp and thorough anTrade ReviewReview from previous edition I consider Birnie, Boyle, and Redgwell's International Law and the Environment to be the leading textbook in the field... The authors' strike a knowledgeable balance in the treatment of various topics. The reader can rely on the book's coverage and substance' * Professor Jutta Brunnée, Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law, University of Toronto *Birnie, Boyle, and Redgwell's International Law and the Environment is a very well written, authoritative, and comprehensive text. The authors' approach the topics in a soundly researched, logically structured, and well-balanced way... For my mind this is the best international environmental law book on the market. * Professor Karen Hulme, Head of Law School, University of Essex *Table of ContentsInternational law and the environmentInternational governance and the formulation of environmental law and policyRights and obligations of states concerning protection of the environmentInterstate enforcement: state responsibility, treaty compliance, and dispute settlementNon-state actors: environmental rights, liability, and crimesClimate change and atmospheric pollutionThe law of the sea and protection of the marine environmentInternational regulation of toxic substancesNuclear energy and the environmentInternational watercourses: environmental protection and sustainable useConservation of nature, ecosystems, and biodiversityConservation of migratory and land-based species and biodiversityConservation of marine living resources and biodiversityInternational trade and environmental protection

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants. The story that the book recounts is one of experimental lawmaking in Ecuador, a country where over the past decade, governmental officials and civil society advocates have attempted to reconfigure how human individuals and institutions relate to nature, by following an eco-centric approach to lawmaking. In doing so, Ecuadorian legislators, administrators, and judges have taken seriously the ontologies of non-human entities, including plants, through a process that has required the continuous navigation of tensions with certain logics that pervade conventional legal regimes. The book endeavours to disrupt these conventional assumptions and approaches to lawmaking by taking seriously alternative strategies to reconstitute interactions between people and plants. In doing so, the book argues in favour of an ecological turn in laws that govern vegetal life. The aTable of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction A Note on Methodology Structure of the Book and Chapter Summaries Part 1: Conventional Approaches to the Governance of Human-Plant InteractionsChapter 1. Taking Plants Seriously in Law 1.1. Challenging the Epistemology of Plants 1.2. Recognising Nature as a Subject with Rights 1.3. Eco-centric Ecuador: Constitutional Protections for Pachamama 1.4. Towards an "Ecological Turn" in Law Chapter 2. Turning Plants into Intellectual Property 2.1. Plants as Inventions 2.2. The Emergence of Systems for Plant Breeders’ Rights 2.3. Alternatives to the Plant Breeders’ Rights Model of Intellectual Property for Plants Chapter 3. Universalising an Instrumental Approach to Plants in Law 3.1. The Contraction of Policy Space for Intellectual Property Lawmaking 3.2. The Expansion of UPOV as Explained by Free Trade Agreements Chapter 4. The Logic of Plant Genetic Resources 4.1. The End of the Common Heritage Approach 4.2. The Emergence of the Global Biodiversity Treaties 4.3. The Instrumental, Economic, and Proprietary Logics of Plant Genetic Resources Part 2: Experimenting with an Eco-Centric Approach: An Ecuadorian StoryChapter 5. Reconfiguring Intellectual Property in Ecuador 5.1. The Ingenios Act: Intellectual Property Meets Sumak Kawsay 5.2. The Making of the Ingenios Act 5.3. The Aspirations of the Ingenios Act 5.4. The New Institutionalism of the Ingenios Act 5.5. The Ingenios Act: Reimagination or Recapitulation? Chapter 6. The Ecuadorian Approach to Intellectual Property for Plants 6.1. The Reconstitution of the Plant Variety in the Ingenios Act 6.2. The Limits of Intellectual Property for Plants in the Ingenios Act Chapter 7. Alternatives to Conventional Legal Imaginaries for Human-Plant Interactions 7.1. Seed Law as an Alternative to Intellectual Property 7.2. Traditional Knowledge Protection as an Alternative to Intellectual Property 7.3. Food Sovereignty as an Alternative to Intellectual Property Chapter 8. Lessons from the Ecuadorian Experiment with an Ecological Turn in Lawmaking 8.1. Pachamama Goes to Court: Adjudicating the Rights of Nature 8.2. What the Rights of Nature Jurisprudence Means for Plants 8.3. Lessons from Eco-Centric Experiments in Lawmaking BibliographyAppendix I: Tables Appendix II: Figures

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the increasing concern over the extent to which those suffering from forced cross-border displacement as a result of environmental change are protected under international human rights law. Formally they are not entitled to admission or stay in a third state country, a situation that has been identified as an international legal protection gap.The book seeks to provide answers to two basic questions: whether and to what extent existing international law protects cross-border environmental displacement, and whether and how existing formalized regional complementary protection standards can interpretively solidify and conceptualize protection for cross-border environmental displacement. The discussion outlines that the protection of the human person is not only an ex post facto obligation of states, but must be increasingly seen as an ex ante one. The analysis further suggests that the European Union regionally orientated protection regime can help states to Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. From environmental change to human displacement; 3. Protection Obligations of States under International Human Rights Law and Related Instruments; 4. Status and Protection Obligations of States under International Refugee Law; 5. Consolidating Protection for Environmental Displacement; 6. Conclusion;

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993.This history of genetic gold' details how, with the aid of international law, the idea of biodiversity has been instrumentalized towards political and economic aims. A study of the strategic utility of biodiversity, rather than the utility of its protection under international law, the book's focus is not, therefore, on the sustainable or non-sustainable use of biodiversity as a natural resource, but rather on its historical use as an intellectual resource. Although biodiversity is still not being effectively conserved, nor sustainably used, the Convention on Biological Diversity and its parent regime persists, now after several decades of operation. This book provides the comprehensive answer to the question of the convention's continued existence.Drawing from environmental history, the philosophy of science, politicaTable of Contents1. The ‘Undead’ Convention and Environmental Reason 2. Lambswool into Synthetic: Early Programmes 3. The Glare of International Law and the Grand Bargain 4. The Genetic Gold Rush 5. The Regulation of Genetic Gold 6.Conclusion - Still Here

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Book SynopsisDespite living and working in California, one of the county's most environmentally progressive states, environmental justice activists have spent decades fighting for clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and safe, healthy communities. Evolution of a Movement tells their storyfrom the often-raucous protests of the 1980s and 1990s to activists' growing presence inside the halls of the state capitol in the 2000s and 2010s. Tracy E. Perkins traces how shifting political contexts combined with activists' own efforts to institutionalize their work within nonprofits and state structures. By revealing these struggles and transformations, Perkins offers a new lens for understanding environmental justice activism in California. Drawing on case studies and 125 interviews with activists from Sacramento to the California-Mexico border, Perkins explores the successes and failures of the environmental justice movement in California. She shows why some activists have moved away from the disrTrade Review"Evolution of a Movement is a well-researched, well-written treatment of the arc of California environmental justice…a fresh addition to the literature." * Mobilization *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Environmental Justice Activism Then and Now 1. Emergence of the Disruptive Environmental Justice Movement 2. The Institutionalization of the Environmental Justice Movement 3. Explaining the Changes in Environmental Justice Activism 4. Kettleman City: Case Study of Community Activism in Changing Times 5. California Climate Change Bill AB 32: Case Study of Policy Advocacy Conclusion: Dilemmas of Contemporary Environmental Justice Activism Appendix: Arguments for and against the Environmental Justice Lawsuit Brought against the California Air Resources Board Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs the process of European integration accelerates the growth of EC Law is having a substantial impact. This text provides an overview of the ways in which EC Law has impacted upon the work of British courts, its focus being the role of British courts in protecting Community rights.Trade ReviewThe text is tightly written, with points clearly made. Issues are identified and each chapter ends with a summary/conclusions. There are plenty of headings, a helpful index, a bibliography and a short list of suggestions for further reading. Footnotes also point the student selectively to other academic writing.Christopher Kerse, Book Reviews, Journal of Legislative StudiesTable of ContentsTable of Cases Table of Legislation and Treaties Table of Equivalence 1. Identifying Community law 2. UK courts: United Kingdom courts or Community courts? 3. Obstacles to the enforcement of Community law 4. Ascertaining the substance of Community rights 5. Giving effect to Community law 6. National remedies for breach of EC law 7. A right to a specific remedy: State liability for breach of Community law 8. The UK courts working as Community courts 9. Community law and criminal law 10. Enforcing Community law against Community institutions 11. Specific Community rules for the enforcement of Community law Further reading Bibliography

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