Environmental law Books

Book SynopsisThis book explores the movement towards the recognition of animal sentience in the law. It explores some first principles underpinning the recognition of animal sentience, including the nature and scope of sentience provisions, the connection between sentience and empathy, drafting issues, and the relationship between sentience recognition and animal rights. The book highlights the operation of animal sentience provisions in several jurisdictions throughout the world and considers some sector-specific applications and limitations of animal sentience recognition.The first book of its kind, it draws together different perspectives as to what this novel turn in the law might mean and where it might lead. The chapters provide a full picture of what the recognition of animal sentience might entail for humans, animals, and our environment, as well as the experiences of different legal jurisdictions in pursuing recognition of animal sentience.This collection is an essential read for both practitioners and academics alike, as well as any group seeking to advance the interests of non-human animals.

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Enforcement Authorities (EEAs), sometimes called Environmental Protection Agencies (EPAs), are the regulatory, monitoring and enforcement agencies of national, state/provincial and local governments worldwide responsible for implementing, monitoring and enforcing environmental legislation. This one-of-a-kind, authoritative handbook offers a comprehensive assessment of the principles and best practice of EEAs throughout the world with a focus on Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, east and south-east Asia and various other OECD, transition and developing countries. The book assesses structures, expertise and capacity, financing, permitting, monitoring, inspection, enforcement and EEA performance and future directions. It also identifies best practice for creating or improving EEAs. It offers substantial information for industry on the nature of compliance with environmental regulations as well as vital information for professionals, consultants, NGOs and researchers working at the interface between government EEAs and industry.Trade Review'Prescient and highly useful tool for regulators and practicians. Guides the reader through a detailed, careful and well-organized study. To be recommended.' Susanne Mieth Andersen, environmental lawyer, Danish Environmental Protection Agency 'Environment policy is implemented and enforced in many different ways - and at many different levels! Sometimes it is government itself and its civil service, sometimes local or regional government is responsible, and sometimes the work is done by agencies with varying amount od independence from government. The fact is that there is very little comparative, or comprehensive, literature in this field and yet it is vitally important for regulators and regulated alike to be able to make trans-frontier comparisons. This Handbook is a welcome attempt to enable this to be done and I expect it to be on the shelves of everyone with an interest in the efficient implementation and enforcement of environmental law.' Sir Ken Collins, Chairman, Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and former member of the European Parliament 'This Handbook provides an excellent, practical overview of one of the most important aspects of any environmental regulatory system, namely the processes and practice of enforcement. It is highly recommended to anyone interested in the day to day enforcement of environmental regulation. The use of interesting case studies and comparative analysis of different regimes makes it both accessible and authoritative. Most of all, it is a book to be used in the real world and not just left on the book shelf.' Stuart Bell, Professor of Environmental Law, Nottingham Law SchoolTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Principles and Nature of Regulation The Nature of Environment Enforcement Authorities Permitting Monitoring and Inspection Action in Response to Non-compliance Compliance Promotion Financing Environmental Enforcement Authorities Management of Environmental Enforcement Authorities

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Book SynopsisAnalysing statutory law alongside case-law examples of the law in practice, students and practitioners of environmental law will gain an understanding of the issues in the jurisdiction of Scotland. This includes an exploration of the contribution of European environmental law and the impact of human rights jurisprudence on Scots environmental law.Table of Contents1. Historical introduction; 2. Statutory nuisance; 3. Nuisance; 4. Noise; 5. Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control; 6. Air Pollution; 7. Waste; 8. Contaminated Land; 9. Water Pollution; 10. Planning and Pollution Control; 11. Nature Conservation.

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Book SynopsisThe regulation of environmental pollution has long been a serious subject of study for scholars of economic analysis of law. This two volume collection explores central issues in the relationship between these two topics. It includes material on private law and property rights, presenting a critique of market failure and asking questions about the role of tort law remedies in regulating the environment. It is concerned not only with the remedies as such, but also with the impact of the common law in shaping the behaviour of actors in the market. It then moves on to issues of public law and interventions in market arrangements, looking at events of market failure, the idea of pollution as an externality, modes of regulation and instances of regulatory failure. These volumes contain the classic law and economics literature relating to environmental regulation, creating an indispensable source of reference.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Introduction; Part I Private Law and Property Rights: Critique of Market Failure: The problem of social cost, R.H. Coase; Social cost and public policy, Ronald H. Coase; When does the rule of liability matter?, Harold Demsetz. Does the Law of Nuisance Create a Property Right?:Property rules, liability rules and inalienability: one view of the Cathedral, Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed; Resolving nuisance disputes: the simple economics of injunctive and damage remedies, A. Mitchell Polinsky; A clear view of The Cathedral: the dominance of property rules, Richard A. Epstein; Property rules and liability rules: the Cathedral in another light, James E. Krier and Stewart J. Schwab. Strict Liability: A theory of strict liability, Richard A. Epstein; Of Coase and corn: a (sort of) defence of private nuisance, David Campbell; Motor-cars and the rule in Rylands V. Fletcher: a chapter of accidents in the history of law and motoring, J.R. Spencer. Tort Law and Technological Development I: Facilitating the Industrial Revolution: Some thoughts on risk distribution and the law of torts, Guido Calabresi; Nuisance law and the industrial revolution, Joel Franklin Brenner; Nuisance law and the industrial revolution - some lessons from social history, John P.S. McLaren. Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law of Nuisance: Injunction negotiations: an economic, moral, and legal analysis, Barton H. Thompson Jr; Nuisance law: rethinking fundamental assumptions, Edward Rabin; Of Coase and cattle: dispute resolution among neighbours in Shasta County, Robert C. Ellickson. Name index. Volume II: Tort Law and Technological Development 2: Current Policy: Trespass to negligence to absolute liability, Charles O. Gregory; The common law nuisance actions and the environmental battle - well-tempered swords or broken reeds, John P.S. McLaren; Governing science: public risks and private remedies, Barry R. Furrow. Part II Pollution, Property and Public Law: Allocation of Pr

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Book SynopsisEarth is our Business takes forward the argument of Polly Higgins' first book, Eradicating Ecocide. This book proposes new Earth law, but it is also about something more than law: it advocates a new form of leadership which places the health and well-being of people and planet first. Polly Higgins shows how law can provide the tools and be a bridge to a new way of doing business. She argues, in fact, that Earth is the business of us all, not the exclusive preserve of the executives of the world's top corporations.Expanding on the proposal in her first book to make Ecocide an international crime, this book sets out the institutional framework for sustainable development and international environmental governance. It proposes new rules of the game to transform our economies, energy supplies and political landscape in a radical, but practical, way. The implications of Polly Higgins' proposal are far-reaching and profound.Like her award-winning first book, Earth is our Business is written

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Book SynopsisThis easy-to-read, concise book is filled with examples, hints, reminders and reviews designed to help engineers and scientists develop effective writing skills. Use the book to learn to write better reports, memos, and journal articles and keep it close at hand when you have questions about organization, clarity and style, writing and revising rough drafts, graphics, workplace writing, computers in writing, and legal issues in writing. The book also contains four helpful appendices on common errors, equations and abbreviations, preparing manuscripts for publication, and documenting information sources. Effective Writing Strategies for Engineers and Scientists provides easy training for the type of writing required of engineers and scientists, gives specific advise for conveying complicated information, and describes how to synthesize information according to specific writing strategies. It is a must for every scientist''s and engineer''s bookshelf.Table of ContentsWriting in the Workplace. Effective Organization. Writing and Revising the Rough Draft. Visual Displays in Technical Writing. The Computer Revolution in Writing. Legal Issues in Writing. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThis book covers wreck law as an integrated whole, going beyond the question of removal to include issues such as the ownership of wreck and how the law deals with the many commercial law problems arising after ships have been wrecked during the maritime commercial adventure. The book offers authoritative guidance on the genesis and meaning of the Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention 2007, and the interpretation of its often-complex provisions as they apply both to States trying to use its powers and to shipowners and liability insurers faced by its obligations. The authors explain the increasingly complex inter-relationship between linked areas of maritime law, including salvage, intervention and the overlapping international regimes which deal with pollution from oil, bunkers or hazardous and noxious substances. The book examines how a salvage operation transitions to wreck removal and links the liability provisions with the standard form international commercial contracts actuTable of ContentsPart I Wreck in National and International Law; 1 Introduction to Wreck Casualties 2. Wreck and the Maritime Commercial Adventure 3. Rights in Relation to Wreck 4. State Rights and Wreck 5. Law of the Sea and Wreck 6. Underwater Cultural Heritage Part II Wreck Removal Convention 2007; 7. Wreck Removal Convention 2007: Creation 8. Wreck Removal Convention 2007: Scope 9. Wreck Removal Convention 2007: States’ Rights and Duties 10. Wreck Removal Convention 2007: Shipowners’ and Insurers’ Liabilities 11. National Wreck Removal Law and the MSA 1995 Part 9A Part III Wreck Removal Contracts; 12. Transition To Wreck Removal: Salvage and SCOPIC 13. Wreck Removal Operations and Contracts Part IV Wreck Disposal 14. Wreck Disposal

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Book SynopsisThe essays selected for this volume present critical viewpoints from the debate about the need to establish rights on behalf of greater environmental protection. Three main areas for developing environmental rights are surveyed, including: extensionist theories that link existing rights (for example to subsistence or territory) to threats of harm from exacerbated resource scarcity, pollution or rapid environmental change; proposals for rights to specified environmental goods or services, such as rights to a safe environment and the capacity to assimilate greenhouse gas emissions; and rights that protect the interests of parties not currently recognized as having rights, including nonhuman subjects, natural objects and future generations. This volume captures the potential for and primary challenges to the development of rights as instruments for safeguarding the planet''s life-support capacities and features proposals and analyses which argue the need to create an avenue of recoTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Human Rights: General: Environmental injustice and human rights abuse: the states, MNCs, and repression of minority groups in the world system, Francis O. Adeola; Can communal goods be human rights?, Jeremy Waldron; Philosophical issues in international environmental law, James Nickel and Daniel Magraw. Part II Human Rights and Climate Change: Greenhouse development rights: a proposal for a fair global climate treaty, Paul Baer, with Tom Athanasiou, Sivan Kartha and Eric Kemp-Benedict; Does anthropogenic climate change violate human rights?, Derek Bell; Human rights, responsibilities, and climate change, Simon Caney; Human rights versus emissions rights: climate justice and the equitable distribution of ecological space, Tim Hayward; Competing claims: human rights and climate harms, Stephen Humphreys; Human rights, climate change, and the trillionth ton, Henry Shue; Climate change, environmental rights, and emission shares, Steve Vanderheiden. Part III Rights of Nonhumans, Environment and Futurity: The rights of animals and unborn generations, Joel Feinberg; The case for biotic rights, James A. Nash; Should trees have legal standing? - toward legal rights for natural objects, Christopher D. Stone; On future generations' future rights, Axel Gosseries; The right to a green future: human rights, environmentalism, and intergenerational justice, Richard P. Hiskes; Our rights and obligations to future generations for the environment, Edith Brown Weiss; Contemporary property rights, Lockean provisos, and the interests of future generations, Clark Wolf. Part IV Rights to a Safe Environment: Toward a constitutionally protected environment, John Y. Pearson Jr; Environmental rights: European fact or English fiction?, Christopher Miller; Rights and responsibilities on the home planet, Holmes Rolston III; Human rights, environmental rights, and the right to environment, Dinah Shelton; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of scholarly articles takes as its subject matter discourses on environmental justice. The concept emerged in recent decades as an important framing concept for a wide variety of environmental movements and objectives, and has gained considerable currency due to the scope and normative force that its principles contain, whether in legal, political, or philosophical applications. This collection is an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars in this field given that the multiple theories and analyses of environmental justice are likely to remain central to the ongoing development of normative theorizing about the human role in the environment in the foreseeable future.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I Foundations of Environmental Justice: Race and the Distribution of Risk: Solid waste sites and the black Houston community, Robert D. Bullard; Environmental justice and the sustainable city, Graham Haughton; The environment of justice, David Harvey; Just garbage, Peter S. Wenz; A wilderness environmentalism manifesto: contesting the infinite self-absorption of humans, Kevin Michael DeLuca. Part II New Directions in Environmental Justice: beyond Equitable Risk: Principles of environmental justice, First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit; Justice, democracy, and hazardous siting, Christian Hunold and Iris Marion Young; Distributive justice, participative justice, and the principle of prima facie political equality, Kristen Shrader-Frechette; Reconceiving environmental justice: global movements and political theories, David Schlosberg; Women and toxic waste protests: race, class and gender as resources of resistance, Celene Krauss; Social justice and environmental goods, David Miller. Part III International and Intergenerational Environmental Justice: Global environmental justice, Dale Jamieson; Global environment and international inequality, Henry Shue; Thick cosmopolitanism, Andrew Dobson; Allocating ecological space, Steve Vanderheiden; Environmental justice and economic degrowth: an alliance between two movements, Joan Martínez-Alier; Sustainability and intergenerational justice, Brian Barry. Part IV Applied Environmental Justice: Resources, Climate and Food: Global justice and the distribution of natural resources, Tim Hayward; Cosmopolitan justice, responsibility, and global climate change, Simon Caney; Global inequality and climate change, J. Timmons Roberts; The hijacking of the global food supply, Vandana Shiva. Name index.

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Book SynopsisThe development of civilization has upset much of the earth’s ecosystem leading to air, land, and water pollution. The author defines pollution as the introduction of a foreign substance into an ecosystem via air, land or water. This book delves into issues that effect the everyday lives of people who come in contact with these hazards.Table of ContentsPart I 1. History, Definitions and Terminology 2. Resources and Resouce UtilizationPart II Ecosystems 3. Land Systems 4. Water Systems 5. The Atmosphere Part III Chemical Waste and Waste Management 6. Chemical Waste 7. Chemical Waste Management and Biodegredation of Waste 8. Physical and Thermal Methods of Waste Management 9. Waste Recycling and Disposal 10. Sources and Effects of Gaseous Emissions 11. Control of Gaseous EmissionsPart IV Regulation and the Future 12. Environmental Regulations

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Book SynopsisThe environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible explanations, expert legal insight into new and evolving regulations, and reliable compliance and management guidance.The Environmental Law Handbook continues to provide individuals across the country—professionals, professors, and students—with a comprehensive, up-to-date, and easy-to-read look at the major environmental, health, and safety laws affecting U.S. businesses and organizations. Because it is written by the country's leading environmental law firms, it provides the best, most reliable guidance anywhere. Both professional environmental managers and students aspiring to careers in environmental management should keep the Environmental Law Handbook within arm's reach for thoughtful answers to regulatory questions like: How do I ensure compliance with the regulations? How do the latest environmental developments impact my operations? How do we keep our operations efficient and our community safe? The Handbook begins with chapters on the fundamentals of environmental law and on issues of enforcement and liability. It then dives headfirst into the major laws, examining their history, scope, and requirements with a chapter devoted to each. The 25th edition of this well-known Handbook has been thoroughly updated, covering major changes to the law and enforcement in the areas of Clean Air, Clean Water, Climate Change, Oil Pollution, and Pollution Prevention. This is an essential reference for environmental students and professionals, and anyone who wants the most up-to-date information available on environmental laws.

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Book SynopsisAs an environmental issue transcending national boundaries,the spread of toxic substances in the environment, with harmful consequences for ecosystems and human health has become the focus of transnational regulatory efforts in a variety of international fora. In order to address the problems created by transboundary toxic movements a set of binding as well as non-binding norms are being developed at the European and international level. This book analyses the development and effectiveness of transnational toxics law through two case studies: one dealing with the European regional regime for the control of toxic discharges in the aquatic environment and the other looking at the emerging global regime for the regulation of international trade in hazardous pesticides. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal and political framework in EU law for the reduction of inputs of hazardous substances in the marine and freshwater environment, and in regional agreements for the protection of the marine environment of the North Sea and Northeast Atlantic, Baltic Sea and Mediterranean. It also offers a critical account of the development of soft and hard law regulating exports of banned and severely restricted pesticides from industrialised to developing countries; from the resolutions of the United Nations Environment Programme and General Assembly in the late 1970s, to the signing of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure in 1998. The author shows that international normative efforts in these two fields have proved much more productive in establishing procedural obligations for states than in laying down actual substantive standards to govern their conduct, and argues that transnational environmental law may be valued by governments more for its symbolic, value-expressive function, than for any real problem-solving capacity.Trade ReviewPallemaerts' discussion of the issues confirms that he possesses a thorough understanding of the pertinent regulatory regimes well-presented, well-argued, sophisticated and coherent an interesting and highly informative book. Lucas Bergkamp, Managing Partner, Hunton Williams, Brussels and Professor of International Liability Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law May 2005Table of ContentsPART I. INTRODUCTION 1. Toxic Substances as an Object of Transnational Environmental Regulation 2. Law as an Instrument of International Environmental Policy PART II. TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS: THE REGULATION OF TOXIC EMISSIONS IN THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT 3. Transboundary Pollution of the Aquatic Environment by Toxic Substances from Industrial Processes and Products: The Problem and its Perception 4. The Land-Based Sources Regime for the North Sea and North East Atlantic 5. The Baltic Land-Based Sources Regime: The 1974 and 1992 Helsinki Conventions on the Protection of The Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area 6. The Mediterranean Land-Based Sources Regime: The 1976 Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution and its Protocols 7. The Regulation of Emissions of Dangerous Substances in International Watercourses 8. The Regulation of Emissions of Dangerous Substances into the Aquatic Environment under European Community Law 9. The Interaction between International Law and European Community Law: The Participation of the European Community in International Conventions Concerning Emissions of Dangerous Substances in the Aquatic Environment PART III. TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE: THE REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN PESTICIDES 10. Health and Environment Effects in the Third World of Inadequately Regulated Pesticide Trade and Use: The Problem and its Perception 11. The 'Soft' Response Model: United States Legislation on the Export of Banned and Severely Restricted Pesticides 12. The First Phase of International Regulatory Efforts: From 'Hard' Soft Law to 'Soft' Hard Law? 13. The Second Phase of International Regulatory Efforts: Towards a Consensus on Prior Informed Consent 14. The Third Phase of International Regulatory Efforts: From 'Hard' Soft Law to 'Soft' Hard Law? 15. The Implementation of International Norms by the European Community: Community Regulation of Hazardous Chemical Exports 16. The Implementation of International Norms by the United States: The Evolution of National Law and Policy PART IV. OVERVIEW AND CONCLUSIONS 17. The Regulation of Toxic Emissions in the Aquatic Environment: A Regime Appraisal 18. The Regulation of International Trade in Pesticides: A Regime Appraisal 19. Transnational Environmental Law Between Legal Instrumentalism and Legal Symbolism

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Book SynopsisA sharp, informed and thoroughly practical guide to contemporary and developing issues relating to sea pollution, prepared by leading academics and practitioners with everyday hands-on experience. Pollution at Sea focuses on a number of the vital private law issues – compensation, insurance, contract and tort – thrown up by contemporary developments in the law of pollution. The book also intends to offer a critical analysis on emerging public law concepts, such as the legal position of seafarers from the perspective of criminal law in cases of pollution and the impact of port state control as a pollution control mechanism. Pollution at Sea is divided into three parts:1. Private Law Liability Regimes2. Rights and Liabilities of Particular Parties3. The Impact of Public Law on the Actors ConcernedIn part 1; various liability regimes are dissected, including those which have been under the spotlight in recent years. This section has particular international appeal, and many of the regimes discussed are based at least in part on international conventions, agreements or practices. In part 2; the impact of pollution at sea on third parties is considered, with respect to the legal position of parties that might be perused either by the victims of pollution incidents or in some cases by the parties liable by way of a recourse action. Finally in part 3; recent relevant developments, particularly in the realm of public law are covered.Table of ContentsPART 1: Various Liability Regimes: International, Regional and National 1. “Torrey Canyon”, 45 Years on – Have We Solved All the Problems? Mr Patrick Griggs CBE, Past President of CMI, UK 2. Liability for Pollution from Ships Bunkers Mr Colin de la Rue, Partner, Ince & Co, London, UK 3. The HNS Convention and Its 2010 Protocol Mr Mans Jacobbson, Former Director, International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds, Sweden 4. Compensation for Pollution Damage Resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Mineral Resources Professor Baris Soyer, Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, UK 5. Proposals for Legislative Reform Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Mr Charles B. Anderson, Skuld North America, USA 6. “To the Great Damage and Common Nuisance of All Liege Subjects of Our Lady the Queen”: Oil Pollution Claims and Public Nuisance Simon Rainey QC, Barrister Quadrant Chambers, London, UK 7. Avoiding International Legal Regimes- The Erika Experience Mr Luc Grelett, Partner, Reed Smith, Paris, France 8. Maritime Liability and Compensation in EU Law Mr Henrik Ringbom, Head of Unit, Marine Environment, Training and Statistics, at the European Maritime Safety Agency, Portugal PART 2: Pollution Liabilities and Third Parties 9. Environmental Salvage- Time for A Change? Mr Archie Bishop, Holman Fenwick Willan, London, UK10. Recent Developments in P&I Cover for Pollution: Terrorism, Piracy and Sanctions Mr Luke Readman, Retired Chairman, Thomas Miller Ltd, UK 11. The Liability of Charterers for Marine Pollution Professor Richard Williams, Member of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, UK 12. Marine Pollution- Unorthodox Suits and Unorthodox Defendants Professor Andrew Tettenborn, Member of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, UK PART 3: Public Law Aspects 13. Maritime Pollution and State Liability Mr Simon Baughen, Reader in Law, University of Bristol, UK 14. Whatever Happened to European Directive 2005/35/EC? Europe's Ambivalent Approach to the Fight against Marine Pollution and its Consequences for Seafarers Professor Marc Huybrechts, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Antwerp and University of Leuven, Belgium 15. Impact of Port State Control on Pollution at Sea Dr Oya Ozcayir, Maritime Consultant and Member of the Izmir Bar, Turkey

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of this title is a practitioner text offering practical and comprehensive coverage of the law relating to environmental impact assessment which is an important stage in the planning process. This title sets out the legal requirements relating to EIAs including the relationship of European Union law with domestic law and the resulting cases. The main part of the work concentrates on the role that EIAs play in the planning application process. There is also a section on EIAs in specific contexts such as forestry, archaeology, agriculture and highways. The work concludes with a section on good practice that offers guidance on scoping the statement, how to write the non-technical summary and certain aspects such as social impact, air quality, noise and health risk assessments. This work is invaluable for lawyers, local authority planning officers, planning consultants, property developers and all other professionals who need to know about the planning process. Completely updated to include a detailed examination of the legislative changes such as the new Strategic Assessment legislation and the Planning Act 2008; significant developments in international law such as UNECE, Espoo and Aarhus Conventions; case law such as R (Wye Valley Action Association Limited) v Herefordshire District Council [2009] that has occurred post the last edition. New chapters to include: Strategic Environmental Assessment; Major Infastructure Projects; Assessment in context of Habitats Regime; Planning Act 2008. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Environmental Law online service.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The European dimension and its relevance; Chapter 3 Screening; Chapter 4 Environmental statements; Chapter 5 Procedure; Chapter 6 Special cases in the planning system; Chapter 7 Non-planning development and EIA; Chapter 8 Strategic environmental assessment; Chapter 9 Conservation and habitats law in the EIA context; Chapter 10 Challenges.

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Book SynopsisThe Environment Act received Royal Assent in December 2021. It is a landmark piece of legislation creating a new governance framework that will regulate how the nation manages biodiversity, water resources and air pollution to name just a few, and introducing conservation covenant agreements as an option for developers. This new regime will lean heavily on the planning system with environmental considerations, becoming a key factor in planning and development decision making. This means everyone involved in considering or advising on new developments needs to know how the new regime could impact on those plans. The Environment Act 2021: A Guide for Planners and Developers will be one of the first books available to provide a comprehensive overview of the Act specifically for the planning sector. Written by Tom Graham, a practising lawyer with many years of experience in environment and planning law, it answers the questions that planners and advisors will need to consider such as: The interpretation of the Environment Act Conservation biology and the planning system What is Biodiversity Net Gain and how will it interact with the planning system? What is the "precautionary principle" and how is this to be reflected in the planning process? Can local planning authorities push a "green agenda"? Section 106 agreements, conservation covenants, planning conditions and ecology How will local planning committees get to grips with the complexities of the Act? How will the act impact on developers? Is it a benefit or a problem? As well as practical commentary, the book includes the relevant sections of the Act, annotated by the author, so you will have the sources you need in one, handy volume.

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