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Bath Publishing Ltd The Power of Neighbourhood Planning
Book SynopsisNeighbourhood planning, introduced by the Localism Act 2011, is now well established as the new 'first tier' of our planning system. The key to this brave new world of localism is the Neighbourhood Development Plan, which enables local communities to make planning policies for their area that have statutory effect and which must be taken into account by decision makers. But how does a neighbourhood plan get off the ground? How do communities make sure that it comes into force? And, more importantly, what are the essential features of an effective plan; one that can withstand the often intense pressures for new development? This unique book answers these and many other questions faced by neighbourhood planners with a clear, pragmatic focus and in sufficient depth to arm both lay readers and planning professionals with the knowledge they need to operate effectively within this novel planning regime. Along the way, some of the less well-known planning rules and procedures that can be invoked by neighbourhood planning groups and others at a local level are also explained. The author, a planning lawyer and consultant who has helped many parishes and communities since the advent of neighbourhood planning, also helpfully explores the place of neighbourhood planning within the wider planning system and offers a fascinating assessment of the potential of neighbourhood planning to address a whole range of important environmental issues. This insight and expertise makes The Power of Neighbourhood Planning an essential resource for everyone involved - whether as an interested member of the public, local councillor or parish clerk – or as a planning professional looking for an incisive introduction to this often controversial topic.
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K One Health
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Klimaschutz durch Berücksichtigungsgebote
£75.65
Kohlhammer Jagdrecht Fur BadenWurttemberg
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Kohlhammer Umweltrecht
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£34.00
Duncker & Humblot Umweltrecht Zu Beginn Des 21. Jahrhunderts:
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£74.93
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Haftung Fur Den Klimawandel Im Zivilrecht
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£87.92
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Instrumente zur Bekämpfung von Warenvernichtung
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£79.92
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Vorsorge als Prinzip
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£79.92
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Vom Wasserrecht lernen
£59.42
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Rechte der Natur
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£87.92
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Klimaschutz und Justiz
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Standortplanung, Genehmigung und Betrieb umweltrelevanter Industrieanlagen: Rechtliche Grundlagen
Book SynopsisStandortsuche, Genehmigungsverfahren und Betrieb von Industrieanlagen, Regeln der Technik, Aufbau von Verwaltungsorganen, Rechtsvorschriften, Sicherheit und Gefahrstoffrecht, Betreiberpflichten, übergreifende Vorschriften und Auswirkungen auf die Betriebswirtschaft sowie ein Überblick über europäisches Umweltrecht werden in diesem Werk behandelt. Damit wird eine aus Ingenieursicht kommentierte Übersicht vorgelegt, die die oft komplizierte Vernetzung und Zusammenhänge beschreibt. Das Buch ist ein Wegweiser für Ingenieure durch das Genehmigungsrecht technischer Anlagen Der Autor ist Dozent an der TU Dresden und beratend für die sächsische Landesregierung tätig.Table of Contents1 Vorbemerkungen.- 2 Staatsaufbau und Verwaltungshandeln.- 2.1 Staatsaufbau.- 2.1.1 Grundlagen, Föderalismus und Gewaltenteilung, Rechtssystem.- 2.1.2 Kompetenzverteilung zwischen Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden.- 2.1.2.1 Gesetzgebungskompetenz — Verteilung Bund — Länder.- 2.1.2.2 Exkurs: Satzungsautonomie der Gemeinden.- 2.1.2.3 Verwaltungskompetenzen.- 2.1.2.3.1 Landeseigene Verwaltung.- 2.1.2.3.2 Bundesauftragsverwaltung der Länder.- 2.1.2.3.3 Bundeseigene Verwaltung.- 2.1.2.4 Gerichtsbarkeit.- 2.2 Gesetzgebung — Normsetzung.- 2.2.1 Rechtsvorschriften.- 2.2.1.1 Formelle Gesetze.- 2.2.1.2 Rechtsverordnungen, Satzungen (materielle Gesetze).- 2.2.2 Verwaltungsvorschriften.- 2.2.3 Technische Regelwerke.- 2.3 Verwaltungshandeln.- 2.3.1 Behördenzuständigkeiten.- 2.3.2 Rechtsgrundlagen des Verwaltungshandelns.- 2.3.2.1 Rechtsquellen.- 2.3.2.2 Verwaltungsverfahren.- 2.3.2.2.1 Der Verwaltungsakt.- 2.3.2.2.2 Stellung des Bürgers als Verfahrensbeteiligter.- 2.3.2.2.3 Zuständigkeitsfragen.- 2.3.2.2.4 Formfreiheit und Förmlichkeit des Verwaltungsverfahrens.- 2.3.2.2.5 Verfahrensrecht der Beteiligten.- 2.3.2.2.6 Abschluß des Verfahrens.- 2.4 Rechtsschutz.- 2.4.1 Verwaltungsinterne Überprüfung/Widerspruch.- 2.4.1.1 Nicht förmliche Rechtsmittel.- 2.4.1.2 Förmliche Rechtsmittel.- 2.4.2 Gerichtliche Kontrolle.- 2.4.3 Gerichtliche Überprüfung von Gesetzesakten und anderen Normen.- 2.5 Europäische Union, Europäische Gemeinschaft.- 2.5.1 Grundlagen: Die Verträge zur Europäischen Gemeinschaft und Europäischen Union.- 2.5.2 Kompetenzen der EG.- 2.5.3 EG-Rechtsakte.- 2.5.3.1 Exkurs: Kompetenzen der Europäischen Gemeinschaft hinsichtlich Umweltrecht.- 2.5.3.2 Zustandekommen von EG-Rechtsakten.- 2.5.3.3 Umsetzen der EG-Richtlinien im Mitgliedstaat Deutschland.- 2.5.4 Anwendung und Rechtsschutz im Gemeinschaftsrecht.- 2.5.4.1 Zuständigkeit des Europäischen Gerichtshofes.- 2.5.4.2 Gericht 1. Instanz der EG.- 2.5.4.3 Nationale Gerichte und Vorabentscheidungsverfahren.- 2.6 Literatur zu Kapitel 2.- 2.7 Abkürzungsverzeichnis.- 3 Strukturen und Strategien des Umweltrechts.- 3.1 Umweltpolitik.- 3.1.1 Historisches/Entwicklung der Umweltpolitik.- 3.1.2 Staatsziel Umweltschutz.- 3.1.3 Kosten-Nutzen-Aspekte.- 3.1.4 Schutz der Umwelt durch Recht.- 3.1.4.1 Umweltbegriff.- 3.1.4.2 Rang des Umweltschutzes in der Rechtsordnung.- 3.2 Umweltschutz als staatliche Aufgabe.- 3.3 Rechtliche Prinzipien.- 3.3.1 Vorsorgeprinzip — zum Risikobegriff im deutschen Umweltrecht.- 3.3.2 Verursacherprinzip.- 3.3.3 Kooperationsprinzip.- 3.3.4 Verfassungsrechtliche Verankerung des Verursacher-, Vorsorge- und Kooperationsprinzips.- 3.3.5 Grundsatz der Nachhaltigkeit.- 3.3.6 Gemeinlastprinzip.- 3.4 Instrumente zur Durchsetzung umweltgerechten Verhaltens.- 3.4.1 Abgaben und Zertifikate.- 3.4.1.1 Ausprägungen der praktizierten Umweltpolitik.- 3.4.1.2 Grundlagen der Umweltökonomik.- 3.4.1.2.1 Charakterisierung der Umweltgüter.- 3.4.1.2.2 Aspekte des Allokationsproblems.- 3.4.1.2.3 Effiziente Allokationen in einer Marktwirtschaft.- 3.4.1.2.4 Internalisierung externer Effekte.- 3.4.1.3 Abgaben und Zertifikate im Rahmen der klassischen Umweltökonomie.- 3.4.1.4 Abgaben und Zertifikate im Rahmen des Preis-Standard-Ansatzes.- 3.4.1.4.1 Die Abgabenlösung.- 3.4.1.4.2 Handelbare Emissionszertifikate.- 3.4.2 Kompensationen und Begünstigungen.- 3.5 Übersicht über das Umweltrecht.- 3.5.1 Allgemeines Umweltrecht.- 3.5.2 Besonderes Umweltrecht.- 3.5.2.1 Immissionsschutz.- 3.5.2.2 Strahlenschutz und Reaktorsicherheit.- 3.5.2.3 Energieeinsparen.- 3.5.2.4 Schutz vor gefährlichen Stoffen.- 3.5.2.5 Vermeidung und Entsorgung von Abfällen.- 3.5.2.6 Gewässerschutz.- 3.5.2.7 Naturschutz, Landschaftspflege, Bodenschutz, Tierschutz.- 3.6 Strafrecht.- 3.6.1 Übersicht.- 3.6.2 Die einzelnen Umweltdelikte des StGB.- 3.6.2.1 § 324 StGB: Gewässerverunreinigung.- 3.6.2.2 § 324a StGB: Bodenverunreinigung.- 3.6.2.3 § 325 StGB: Luftverunreinigung.- 3.6.2.4 § 325a StGB Verursachen von Lärm, Erschütterung und nichtionisierenden Strahlen.- 3.6.2.5 § 326 StGB: Unerlaubter Umgang mit gefährlichen Abfällen.- 3.6.2.6 § 327 StGB: Unerlaubtes Betreiben von Anlagen.- 3.6.2.7 § 328 StGB: Unerlaubter Umgang mit radioaktiven Stoffen und anderen gefährlichen Stoffen und Gütern.- 3.6.2.8 § 329 StGB: Gefährdung schutzbedürftiger Gebiete.- 3.6.2.9 § 330a StGB: Schwere Gefährdung durch Freisetzen von Giften.- 3.6.2.10 § 330 StGB: Besonders schwerer Fall einer Umweltstraftat.- 4 Standortplanung für Industrie und Gewerbe.- 4.1 Planung neuer Industrie- und Gewerbestandorte.- 4.1.1 Integration in den Planungsprozeß: Wann und wie ist die Standortplanung anzugehen?.- 4.2 Anforderungen an einen neuen Standort.- 4.2.1 Benötigte Informationen.- 4.2.2 Benötigte und vorhandene Flächengröße.- 4.2.3 Erschließung.- 4.2.4 Emissionen von Industrieanlagen, insbesondere von Luftschadstoffen und Lärm, Sicherheitslage.- 4.2.5 Wassergefährdende Stoffe.- 4.2.6 Gefahrguttransporte auf der Straße zur Anlage.- 4.2.7 Gebäudehöhe als Luftfahrhindernis.- 4.2.8 Logistische Optimierung.- 4.3 Ermittlung der Standorteigenschaften.- 4.3.1 Genehmigungssituation und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten.- 4.3.1.1 Struktur der standortbezogenen Rechtsvorschriften — Einfluß der Raumordnung und Landesplanung.- 4.3.1.2 Baurechtliche Zulässigkeit.- 4.3.1.3 Immissionsschutz.- 4.3.1.4 Natur- und Landschaftsschutz.- 4.3.1.5 Gewässerschutz — Errichtungsverbote in Wasserschutzgebieten.- 4.3.1.6 Transporte zur Anlage.- 4.3.1.7 Bodenschutz.- 4.3.1.8 Denkmalschutz, Bodendenkmäler.- 4.3.1.9 Zusätzliche Informationsquellen.- 4.3.2 Baugrundrisiken und Altlasten.- 4.3.2.1 Technische Baugrundrisiken.- 4.3.2.2 Altlasten — Altlastenbegriff.- 4.3.2.3 Sanierungsverantwortung — Haftung des Erwerbers.- 4.3.2.4 Sanierungsziel.- 4.3.2.5 Altlasten in der Nachbarschaft des eigenen Grundstücks.- 4.3.3 Baulasten und Grunddienstbarkeiten.- 4.4 Umgang mit Entscheidungsträgern, Behörden und Vertragspartnern.- 4.4.1 Interessenlage der Beteiligten.- 4.4.2 Absicherung der Bau- und Betriebsgenehmigung.- 4.4.3 Auskunftsansprüche gegenüber Behörden — Umweltinformationsgesetz.- 4.4.4 Absicherung der Verwendbarkeit im Grundstückskaufvertrag.- 4.5 Sicherung eines vorhandenen Standortes.- 4.5.1 Grundsätze des planerischen Immissionsschutzes.- 4.5.2 Näherrücken der Wohnbebauung.- 4.5.3 Belastende Planungen im Umfeld.- 4.5.4 Bebauungspläne als Standortsicherung.- 4.5.4.1 Bebauungsplanverfahren.- 5 Errichtung und Veränderung von Industrieanlagen.- 5.1 Vorhabenkategorien für Genehmigungsvorschriften.- 5.1.1 Begriffsdefinitionen, Rangordnung der Vorhaben.- 5.1.2 Einzelheiten.- 5.1.2.1 Anlagenbegriff des Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetzes.- 5.1.2.2 Anlagenbegriffe in anderen deutschen Zulassungsgesetzen.- 5.1.2.3 Begriffe im europäischen Recht.- 5.2 Genehmigungserfordernisse für Industrieanlagen.- 5.2.1 Übersicht über die Genehmigungsarten und -tatbestände.- 5.2.1.1 Konzentrationswirkung: Einschluß von Genehmigungen durch andere Genehmigungen.- 5.2.2 Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung.- 5.3 Raumordnungsverfahren.- 5.4 Genehmigung nach dem Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz.- 5.4.1 Genehmigungsarten.- 5.4.1.1 Genehmigungsverfahren.- 5.4.1.2 Wesentliche Änderung.- 5.4.2 Besonderheiten: Errichtungsvorbehalt, Konzentrationswirkung, privatrechtlicher Bestandsschutz, gebundene Genehmigung.- 5.4.3 Prinzipien: Immissionsbegrenzung, Emissionsbegrenzung, Wärmenutzung, Abfallvermeidung, Betriebseinstellung.- 5.4.4 Begriff „Stand der Technik„.- 5.4.4.1 Zukünftige Entwicklung: Begriff „Beste verfügbare Technik„ der IVU-Richtlinie.- 5.5 Durchführung immissionsschutzrechtlicher Genehmigungsverfahren.- 5.5.1 Stellung der Genehmigungsbehörde.- 5.5.2 Vorinformation durch die Behörde — Scoping.- 5.5.2.1 Tischvorlage zum Scoping-Termin.- 5.5.3 Ablauf des förmlichen Verfahrens.- 5.5.3.1 Antragstellung und Fristen, Antragsunterlagen.- 5.5.3.2 Behördenbeteiligung.- 5.5.3.2.1 Beteiligung der Träger öffentlicher Belange.- 5.5.3.3 Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung.- 5.5.3.3.1 Öffentliche Bekanntmachung.- 5.5.3.3.2 Auslegung und Einwendungen.- 5.5.3.3.3 Erörterung der Einwendungen.- 5.5.3.4 Eigene Ermittlungen durch die Genehmigungsbehörde.- 5.5.3.5 Abschließende Prüfung und Entscheidung, Erarbeitung des Genehmigungsbescheides.- 5.5.4 Ablauf des vereinfachten Verfahrens (ohne UVP).- 5.5.5 Genehmigungsbescheid.- 5.5.5.1 Rechtsmittel gegen den Genehmigungsbescheid.- 5.5.5.2 Rechtsfolgen unanfechtbarer Genehmigungen.- 5.5.6 Genehmigungsvarianten.- 5.5.6.1 Teilgenehmigung, vorzeitiger Beginn und Vorbescheid.- 5.5.6.2 Änderungsgenehmigung.- 5.5.6.3 Genehmigung aus nachträglicher Anordnung.- 5.6 Andere wesentliche Genehmigungen.- 5.6.1 Baugenehmigung.- 5.6.1.1 Stellung der Gemeinde.- 5.6.1.2 Bauantragsunterlagen.- 5.6.2 Planfeststellung.- 5.6.3 Wasserrechtliche Erlaubnis und Bewilligung.- 5.6.3.1 Sonstige wasserrechtliche Genehmigungstatbestände.- 5.6.4 Genehmigung gentechnischer Anlagen.- 5.6.5 Anzeigen und Erlaubnisse für überwachungsbedürftige Anlagen nach Verordnungen zu § 11 Gerätesicherheitsgesetz (vormals § 24 Gewerbeordnung).- 5.6.6 Anlagengenehmigungen des Abfallrechts.- 5.7 Besondere Antragsunterlagen.- 5.7.1 Immissionsprognose für Luftschadstoffe.- 5.7.1.1 Emissionen.- 5.7.1.2 Immissionsvorbelastung.- 5.7.1.3 Meteorologie.- 5.7.1.4 Ausbreitungsbestimmung.- 5.7.1.4.1 Ausbreitungsrechnung.- 5.7.1.4.2 Bestimmungsgemäßer Betrieb.- 5.7.1.4.3 Störfälle.- 5.7.1.4.4 Ausbreitungsmessung im Windkanal.- 5.7.2 Lärmprognose — Ausbreitungsrechnung für Gewerbelärm.- 5.7.2.1 Grundlagen.- 5.7.2.2 Prognose von Geräuschimmissionen.- 5.7.2.3 Spezielle Literatur zum Lärmschutz.- 5.7.3 Sicherheitsanalyse für Störfallanlagen.- 5.7.3.1 Arten und Ursachen industrieller Störfálle.- 5.7.3.2 Störfallgesetzgebung.- 5.7.3.2.1 Neuerungen im Störfallrecht durch die Seveso II-Richtlinie.- 5.7.3.3 Anforderungen an Sicherheitsanalysen.- 5.7.3.4 Methoden für Sicherheitsanalysen.- 5.8 Einheitliche technische Anforderungen aus verschiedenen Regelungsbereichen.- 5.8.1 Baurechtliche Anforderungen und Baunormen zum baulichen Brandschutz.- 5.8.2 Anlagensicherheit, Brand- und Explosionsschutz.- 5.8.3 Anlagenbezogener Gewässerschutz.- 5.8.4 Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz.- 5.8.5 Immissionsschutz.- 5.8.6 Betriebliche Abfall- und Gefahrstofflagerung.- 5.8.7 Energieeinsparung.- 5.8.8 Bodenschutz.- 5.9 Zeitdauer und Kosten von Genehmigungsverfahren.- 5.9.1 Beschleunigung von Genehmigungsverfahren.- 5.10 Inbetriebnahme- und wiederkehrende Prüfungen.- 6 Unternehmerpflichten im Betrieb.- 6.1 Pflichten nach abgeschlossenen Genehmigungsverfahren.- 6.1.1 Pflichten aus dem Genehmigungsbescheid.- 6.1.2 Anpassungen an den Stand der Technik nach dem Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz.- 6.2 Allgemeine Pflichten.- 6.2.1 Prüf-, Dokumentations- und Berichtspflichten.- 6.2.2 Organisationspflichten und Betriebsbeauftragte.- 6.3 Betreiberpflichten unterschiedlicher Fachbereiche.- 6.3.1 Umgang mit Abfállen.- 6.3.1.1 Grundsätze.- 6.3.1.2 Definition des Abfalls, Konsequenzen.- 6.3.1.3 Rangfolge Vermeidung — Verwertung — Beseitigung.- 6.3.1.4 Produktverantwortung.- 6.3.1.5 Überlassungs- und Entsorgungspflichten.- 6.3.1.6 Betriebliches Abfallwirtschaftskonzept.- 6.3.1.7 Betriebsbeauftragte für Abfall.- 6.3.1.8 Abfallüberwachung; Umgang mit Sonderabfall (Normalverfahren).- 6.3.1.9 Aufbewahrung der Entsorgungsbelege, Nachweisbücher.- 6.3.1.10 Handhabung und Lagerung von Abfällen.- 6.3.2 Anlagenüberwachung nach dem Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz.- 6.3.2.1 Behördliche Überwachung.- 6.3.2.2 Eigenüberwachung durch den Betriebsbeauftragten für Immissionsschutz und den Störfallbeauftragten.- 6.3.2.3 Pflicht zur Messung von Emissionen und Immissionen.- 6.3.2.4 Emissionserklärung.- 6.3.3 Anlagenüberwachung nach dem Gewässerschutzrecht.- 6.4 Umgang mit gefährlichen Stoffen und biologischen Agenzien.- 6.4.1 Anmeldung neuer Stoffe nach dem Chemikaliengesetz.- 6.4.2 Umgang mit gefährlichen Stoffen am Arbeitsplatz.- 6.4.3 Umgang mit biologischen Agenzien am Arbeitsplatz.- 6.5 Haftung.- 6.5.1 Vertragliche Haftung.- 6.5.2 Gesetzliche Haftungsarten.- 6.5.3 Zivilrechtliche Haftung.- 6.5.3.1 Unterteilung der zivilrechtlichen Haftung.- 6.5.3.1.1 Verschuldensabhängige Haftung füentstandene Schäden nach § 823 BGB.- 6.5.3.1.2 Verschuldensunabhängige Haftung.- 6.5.3.1.3 Rechtsfolge Schmerzensgeld.- 6.5.3.2 Haftung des Unternehmens und seiner Mitarbeiter gegenüber Dritten.- 6.5.3.2.1 Haftung einer Gesellschaft für ihre Organe.- 6.5.3.2.2 Haftung einer Gesellschaft für ihre Mitarbeiter.- 6.5.3.2.3 Haftung von Mitarbeitern gegenüber dem Unternehmen (Durchgriffshaftung).- 6.5.3.2.4 Sonderfälle.- 6.5.3.3 Unternehmenshaftung nach dem Umwelthaftungsgesetz.- 6.5.3.3.1 Haftungsvoraussetzungen.- 6.5.3.3.2 Erfaßte Schäden.- 6.5.3.3.3 Deckungsvorsorge.- 6.5.3.4 Gefährdungshaftung nach § 22 Wasserhaushaltsgesetz.- 6.5.3.5 Haftung nach § 32 Gentechnikgesetz.- 6.5.4 Haftpflichtversicherung.- 6.5.4.1 Betriebshaftpflichtversicherung für Umweltschäden.- 6.5.4.2 Haftpflichtversicherung fär die persönliche Haftung.- 6.6 Umweltmanagementsysteme, EG-Umwelt-Audit.- 6.6.1 Ablauf des Umweltaudits nach dem EG-Umwelt-Audit-System.- 6.6.2 Aufwand und Nutzen.- 6.6.3 Umweltaudit nach der DIN EN ISO 14001 - Vergleich.- Literatur.- Anschriftenverzeichnis.
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Books on Demand Forst- und Umweltrecht in Niedersachsen: Gesetze und Verwaltungsvorschriften für Studium und Praxis
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Nomos Verlags GmbH International and European Environmental Law
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S. Hirzel Verlag Das Meer Klagt An!: Der Kampf Fur Die Rechte Der
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The University of Chicago Press Environmental Law for Biologists
Book SynopsisEnvironmental law has an unquestionable effect on the species, ecosystems, and landscapes that biologists studyand vice-versa, as the research of these biologists frequently informs policy. But because many scientists receive little or no legal training, we know relatively little about the precise ways that laws affect biological systemsand, consequently, about how best to improve these laws and better protect our natural resources. With Environmental Law for Biologists, ecologist and lawyer Tristan Kimbrell bridges this gap in legal knowledge. Complete with a concise introduction to environmental law and an appendix describing the most important federal and international statutes and treaties discussed, the book is divided into four broad parts: laws that focus on individual species, like invasive species policies, the Endangered Species Act, and international treaties such as CITES; laws that focus on land, from federal public lands to agricultural regulations and urban planning; laws that focus on water, such as the Clean Water Act; and laws that focus on air, such as the Clean Air Act and international measures meant to mitigate global climate change. Written for working biologists and students alike, this book will be a catalyst for both more effective policy and enhanced research, offering hope for the manifold frictions between science and the law.
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Columbia University Press Urban Climate Law
Book SynopsisAimed at a nonspecialist audience, this book provides concise and comprehensible answers to the core questions cities confront when seeking to develop legally sound local climate policy.Trade ReviewLocal governments are often seen as the engines of climate innovation, and they are. Cities imagine, test, and implement new approaches that, when successful, are adopted across states and beyond. Urban Climate Law provides an important and accessible resource that outlines, in plain language, the legal guardrails that must be considered by local governments as they create new pathways for climate progress. -- Gina McCarthy, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and first White House National Climate AdvisorCities are central to addressing the biggest sources of greenhouse gases—transportation, buildings, energy generation, and waste. Doing so is legally complex. This book is the first to delineate the legal frameworks and areas of law that apply to local climate policy making. It will help local governments craft sounder policies with increased awareness of the legal constraints and opportunities within which cities operate. -- Michael B. Gerrard, professor and faculty director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law SchoolUrban Climate Law is the resource by lawyers for city practitioners that we’ve been waiting for. As climate change policy in cities requires governments to act boldly and think creatively, there is a constant stream of legal questions that create uncertainty at the local level. This book is going to be the building block needed to unlock city-led action in addressing the climate crisis. -- Laura Jay, regional director for North America, C40 CitiesMichael Burger and Amy E. Turner provide an excellent high-level overview of how U.S. cities can enact measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the legal obstacles they may face. -- Katrina M. Wyman, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law and Faculty Director, Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law, New York University School of LawTable of ContentsA Note on Terminology and GlossaryIntroduction1. Cross-Cutting Legal Concepts2. Equity3. Buildings4. Reducing Transportation-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions5. Scaling Up Renewable Energy6. Decarbonizing a City’s WasteConclusionNotesIndex
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Yale University Press Laws Environment
Book SynopsisShows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of places in the American landscape such as: Adak Island far off the coast of western Alaska; the Susquehanna River running through New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland; Colton in California's Inland Empire; and, Alamogordo in southern New Mexico.Trade Review"Nagle reveals a remarkably nuanced understanding of the many ways that law affects the landscape. I wanted to visit each place after reading the book and found myself looking differently at the landscape around me."—Michael P. Vandenbergh, Carlton Takington Professor of Law and Director, Climate Change Research Network, Vanderbilt University Law School -- Michael P. Vandenbergh“Environmental law and policy are usually talked about in abstract terms. It's easy to lose track of the concrete settings that shape environmental law. This is a two-way interaction: the law itself is shaped by particular disputes in particular places. Professor Nagle resurrects this lost dimension of environmental law in lively, readable narratives. He tells the stories of some of the special places that have been touched by environmental law and of the people who live there. A ‘must read’ for anyone who cares about how the law and the land affect each other.”—Dan Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law and Chair, Energy and Resources Group -- Dan Farber“Nagle has written an important book on environmental law that should be of great interest to students and scholars of law and society.”—J. A. Pierceson, Choice -- J. A. Pierceson * Choice *
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Construction Claims
Book SynopsisPraise for the Second Edition . . . A basic, how-to guide . . . for all those involved in the construction industry.--The Construction Lawyer This book is indispensable for any contractor who, against his better judgment, bids a fixed price contract . . . highly recommended.--David S. Thaler, The Daily Record Particularly useful to the construction contractor [and] also instructive to owners and design professionals.--Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities Practical advice on how to prevent a dispute--from the moment that the contract preparation begins through performance by the contractor and administration by the owner.--Concrete International Over two successful editions, Construction Claims has become the sourcebook of choice on the subject for construction professionals from all areas of the industry. Now extensively updated, the Third Edition includes new material on design/build implications for construcTable of ContentsCLAIMS--UNDERSTANDING AND AVOIDING THEM. The Groundwork: The Contract. Red Flag Clauses. Differing Site Conditions/Changed Conditions/Geotechnical Baseline Reports. Changes. Environmental Regulation and Contract Claims. Delays. Contractor's Costs of Delays. Owner's Damages for Delays. Bonding. PROSECUTING AND DEFENDING CLAIMS. Documentation and Record Keeping. Claims Presentation. Formal Dispute Resolution. Appendices. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Construction Contract Law
Book SynopsisA straightforward description providing readers with a guide to contract law as it relates to construction contracting. Thoroughly explains when a lawyer may or may not be needed and offers guidance for working with one. Prior notice provisions, no damage for delay clauses and conditional payment provisions are among the topics covered.Table of ContentsFormation of Contracts. Construction. Performance or Breach. Breach. Mistake, Duress, Threats, and Undue Influence. Mechanic's Liens. Third-Party Beneficiaries. Illegality. Index.
£134.06
John Wiley & Sons Inc Environmental Management Systems and Cleaner
Book SynopsisEnvironmental Management Systems (EMSs) are a way in which business and industry can implement a system of self-regulation on their processes, in order to aid the promotion of clean technology. This book brings together wide ranging analysis and practical experience on Environmental Management Systems and Cleaner Production. This highlights the importance of a clear understanding of complex environmental issues and the relative impact of business and industry, linked to national and international standards and regulations, in developing an efficient Environmental Management System. The book begins by addressing the global dimension of EMSs and Cleaner Production by identifying the strategies and policies used to promote cleaner production in industry and the drivers for voluntary EMSs like the international standard ISO 14001; and their implications for business and trade. This is followed by focusing on selected national perspectives, examining the policies, strategies and initiativesTable of ContentsPartial table of contents: THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION. Drivers for International Integrated Environmental Management (J.Wolfe). The Possibility of Cleaner Production Worldwide (S. de Hoo). NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. Management Systems: Getting Lean, Getting Green in the USA (J.Atcheson). Environmental Management Initiatives in China to Promote CleanerProduction (Y. Zhuang). REGULATION OR SELF-REGULATION? The Role of Regulatory Systems in Requiring Cleaner Processes andRelationships with Voluntary Systems (A. Duncan). EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE. Cleaner Production Through Environmental Management of ProcessInnovations (N. Thorsen). INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE FROM EMERGING AND TRANSITION ECONOMIES. The Greening of Lithuanian Industry: Past and Present (L.Rinkevicius). PRACTICAL CASE STUDIES FROM SMALLER COMPANIES. EMAS Adoption by an SME in the Chemical Sector (V. Biondi & M.Frey). Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Controlling Environmental Risks from Chemicals
Book SynopsisCommercial chemicals contribute to our social welfare, yet can pose serious problems for the environment. How do we recognise these problems? How do we manage them? How do we objectively balance environmental risks with social benefits? This book describes the principles and practices of ecological risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis, asking key but challenging questions such as ''what are we trying to protect?'' and ''how do we undertake a cost-benefit analysis?''. It also shows how these principles are written into legislation. The emphasis is on the EU Directives and Regulations, with a chapter on the instruments and institutions involved; but this is balanced by a review of US and International policies and legislation. In conclusion, the discussion returns to the question of attempting to balance risks with benefits, particularly in the context of the development of sustainable and globally practicable chemical control policies. The text is supplemented by a glossary that deTable of ContentsPrinciples. The Science. Risk Management Methodology. European and UK Axis. Specific Legislation in Britain and Europe. US Legislation with Some Notes on Canada and the Rest of the World. International Organisations and Programmes. The Future.
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The University of Michigan Press Mountains Without Handrails
Book SynopsisBeloved by academic and general readers alike, Mountains Without Handrails, Joseph L. Sax's thought- provoking treatise on America's national parks, remains as relevant today as when first published in 1980. Focusing on the long- standing and bitter battles over recreational use of parklands, Sax proposes a novel scheme for the protection and management of America's national parks.
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University of California Press Green Criminology
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Green Criminology and Political Economy 2. The State of Green Criminology 3. Pollution Crimes 4. Withdrawal Crimes 5. Crimes of Ecological Additions and Illness 6. Crimes of Overproduction and Overconsumption 7. Toxic Towns and Studies of Ecologically Devastated Communities 8. Wildlife Trafficking, Smuggling, and Poaching 9. Environmental Justice and Green Criminology 10. The Treadmill of Environmental Law 11. Environmental Social Movements and Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations 12. Connecting the Dots: Explaining Green Crimes References Index
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University of California Press Evolution of a Movement
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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Princeton University Press This Land Is Our Land
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.Trade Review"This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth . . . is . . . about how to live together once we’ve accepted that there is nothing more “natural” than living in society with other human beings, in a world in which politics and ecology have come to be one and the same. It’s a book to read now and to think from. It’s a call to action."---Aaron Bady, The Nation"[A reminder] of just how capable human beings are of remaking the world, when it suits them."---Rachel Riederer, New Yorker"A work of analytical and moral clarity."---Greg Grandin"A soulful work of political theory. . . . Purdy believes that reckoning with climate change demands a deeper and more comprehensive overhaul of our infrastructure, and This Land Is Our Land is an invitation to imagine the new world—and the new society—that this overhaul could produce."---Eric Klinenberg, New York Review of Books"An urgent rallying cry for a planet and people in crisis. It is rich in ideas, shifting easily from radical miners’ unions to the rise of the far right, from Thoreau’s insights to the history of environmental regulation, but it is a work that remains consistently grounded in the land."---Adam Weymouth, Resurgent and Ecologist Magazine
£15.29
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Americas National Monuments Politics of Preservation
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Cornell University Press Fighting Westway
Book SynopsisThis informative narrative of environmental, political, and legal conflict describes what really happened during the battles over the Westway highway project, providing a new understanding of how modern legal frameworks shape high stakes regulatory wars.Trade ReviewFighting Westway is a fluid historical narrative that offers rich political discernments about a legendary case study of environmental politics. Buzbee's chronological account and legal analysis of the rise and fall of the proposed redevelopment of an interstate along the Lower West Side of Manhattan island is accomplished with an inspirational, firsthand, objective, third-party storyline.... The author, an experienced environmental scholar, is insightful on numerous fronts but is profound when discussing what he refers to as the regulatory war.... Fighting Westway draws on an incredible amount of research from the primary actors in the courtroom battles that ultimately defined Westway’s place in history. The story is a thoroughly detailed look into how regulatory policies function, are challenged, and can be altered. The importance of citizen activism in holding the relevant agencies accountable is great because the intent of environmental laws via citizen-suit provisions is a lesson that needs to be understood by public administrators and politicians. -- Nicholas Guehlstorf * Law and Politics Book Review *Buzbee provides an excellent explanation of regulatory processes and the limitations of both the CAA and NEPA.... But the real heart of the book is Buzbee's able and compelling explanation of the legal strategy, evidence, and reasoning behind the Westway verdicts.... [The book] is exceptionally well suited to undergraduate courses on environmental law and politics... [and] it will give readers a clear understanding of how regulations work, how government institutions interact, and why it can be so difficult to stop a big project once it is underway. -- Sarah S. Elkind * Environmental History *Buzbee tells the history of Westway in chronological fashion, detailing each twist in the regulatory road leading to the project's cancellation in 1985. The drama lies not in the outcome but in how a small group of activists managed to defeat much of the New York City and Washington, D.C., political establishment. Buzbee akes a persuasive case that the outcomes of Westway and similar environmental conflicts reflect the complex intermingling of law, politics, and regulatory procedures. -- David Soll * Journal of American History *Just as a military history combines the chronology of each side's moves and blunders, the capabilities of each army's weapons, and the personalities of the generals to explain the outcome of a war, Professor Buzbee weaves the stories of the Westway camps' political tactics, shifts in the doctrines of environmental regulation and citizen access to courts, and the biographies and decisions of individual stakeholders into a comprehensive and definitive history. Part tactical postmortem, part courtroom drama, and part seamy tale of political intrigue (p. 6), Fighting Westway will be of interest to lawyers, environmentalists, and historians alike. * Harvard Law Review *The Westway was envisioned by many prominent New Yorkers in the 1970s and early 1980s as a massive highway and commercial development along the city's Hudson River shore, generously financed with federal highway funds. But that vision was never fulfilled, for it aroused 14 years of intense opposition from a host of citizen groups, as chronicled here in detail by Buzbee (law, Emory Univ.).... This is an excellent study of how broadly written regulations can engender conflicts over their application to specific projects. It speaks strongly to students of public and environmental law as well as public administration. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. -- W. C. Johnson * CHOICE *Written by a law professorFighting Westway is a carefully researched and clear narrative for a broad audience. For community and environmental activists as well as professionals, it is well worth the read because it vividly illustrates the depth and complexity of the struggle that was needed in order to beat back the giant deal. -- Tom Angotti * The Indypendent *Fighting Westway is a rich and illuminating analysis of an important highway project—as viewed particularly through a regulatory lens.... It will be valuable reading for those interested in the history of environmental policy, highways, neighborhood activism, and the complicated forces affecting cities' ability—or not—to manage their own development. -- Francesco Russello Ammon * Planning Perspectives *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Westway Plan 2 Highways, Subways, and the Seeds of Dissent 3 The Art of Regulatory War 4 The Road Warriors and the New Environment 5 Searching for Westway's Achilles' Heel: Air Pollution? 6 Westway’s Fill and America’s Protected Waters 7 The Public Fish Story 8 Enter the Independent Federal Judiciary and the Power of Law 9 Reexamining the 1971–1982 Debacles10 Westway’s Second Chance 11 The Trial Crucible 12 The Cross-Examination 13 Judgment Days 14 Assessing Westway’s Outcome Epilogue: If Westway Were Proposed Today?
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Stanford University Press The Endangered Species Act A Guide to Its
Book SynopsisThis handbook is a guide to the federal Endangered Species Act, the primary U.S. law aimed at protecting species of animals and plants from human threats to their survival. It is intended for lawyers, government agency employees, students, community activists, businesspeople, and any citizen who wants to understand the Act—its history, provisions, accomplishments, and failures.Trade Review"This handbook is a comprehensive roadmap to our nation's most powerful environmental law. It is a must-read for agency officials, lawyers, community activists, business people, and public and private land owners who need to know what the Endangered Species Act requires and how to work with others in this most contentious field." -- Bruce Babbitt * Former Secretary of the Interior *"A user-friendly guide to navigate through the ESA's policy and practice. . . . Written in an extremely accessible manner, the book is intended for a wide audience. . . . The best single treatment I have found in communicating the ESA's practical requirements and implications." -- Conservation BiologyTable of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven
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Stanford University Press Making Law Matter
Book SynopsisMaking Law Matter presents the first book-length treatment of an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which refashioned itself in the 1980s into a powerful defender of citizen rights in environmental protection, as well as in other areas of public interest such as disability rights, consumer protection, and anti-corruption.Trade Review"Making Law Matter, by Lesley McAllister, is a major book on an important topic: Brazil's Public Ministry and its role in the enforcement of environmental laws . . . Though this is a legal study, the analysis contained here is strengthened by the excellent use of recent work in political science, social movements and public policy. Another strength of the study is its solid grounding in extensive fieldwork conducted in two Brazilian states, with frequent quotations from key actors and its reliance on Brazilian documentary and academic sources." -- Paul Little * Luso-Brazilian Review *"The Brazilian Ministrio Publico is an unusually successful legal institution in a country and region that have often struggled with weak legal systems. Making Law Matter's account of its origin and functioning—and the sources of its comparative success—will be welcomed by both legal specialists and others more broadly interested in the construction of stable and effective democratic governance of the environment. In addition to addressing an intrinsically important legal development, McAllister contributes meticulous research, grounded in extraordinary access to internal data of the Ministrio Publico itself." -- Kathryn Hochstetler * University of New Mexico *"Making Law Matter is a wonderful addition to the growing literature on global environmental law. Lesley McAllister explores the difficulties of enforcing environmental law in Brazil, a country critical to the future health of the planet. She examines enforcement patterns in different Brazilian states and discusses the influence of the 'Ministrio Publico,' an unusual, independent public interest entity that has launched major environmental initiatives. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to broaden their understanding of global environmental law." -- Robert Percival * University of Maryland *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Illustrations and Tables xxx Preface xxx Abbreviations xxx @toc2:1 Environmental Protection and the Rule of Law 1 2 Strong Laws, Weak Agencies 000 3 Becoming Environmental Prosecutors 000 4 Confronting Impunity 000 5 Making Agencies Accountable 000 6 Making Justice Accessible 000 7 Effective Enforcement: Brazil and Beyond 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Wild Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As I've bounced back and forth between Munich and Santa Barbara over the last 20 years, my reverence for our uniquely American 'wilderness' has deepened. Lately, this allegiance to that American romantic ideal of nature with its pristine wildernesses took a beating as I read Irus Braverman's searing analysis of 21st-century conservation: Wild Life: The Institution of Nature (2015). . . . Braverman's research shows we're already far past the dream of actually 'saving' so much pure wilderness—our romanticized American view of wild 'nature' is misleading and outdated." -- Dan McCaslin * Noozhalk *"Braverman's commitment, equally expressed throughout her book, is to the organisms and populations that are rendered killable in the name of vitality. The less valuable lives let die or killed, whether as surplus, as not-wild-enough, as releasable-to-the-wild-even-if-they-will-die, as better-dead-than-captive, as experimental, as competitor, and so on. The book overflows with stories of animals that are killed in the name of life." -- Becky Mansfield * Dialogues in Human Geography *"Braverman has a legal background, but she demonstrates familiarity with key issues in conservation and has evidently consulted widely with a variety of experts who present a range of different viewpoints . . . Overall, this work presents some important issues that can complicate and detract from the success of conservation initiatives, and it will be of value to graduate students and professionals seriously considering a career in conservation." -- Susan Catherine Cork * Conservation Biology *"The stories Braverman tells about what wildlife conservationists think they are doing, and how puzzling some of their behavior is, and how conflicted they are about the unnaturalness of some of the natures they are creating are quite compelling even absent a layering of Foucaldian deconstruction." -- Geoffrey Wandesford-Smith * Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy *"Wild Life confronts the conceptual divide between 'natural' and 'unnatural' environments. This false dichotomy informs the often bitter politics of conservation efforts, and has enormous implications for the future impact of climate change, environmental degradation, and the steady depletion of biodiversity on a global scale. An extraordinarily provocative book." -- Eve Darian-Smith, University of California * Santa Barbara *"This is a most thoughtful and well-written book about the difficulty of separating ideas about the lives of nonhuman animals (animals) who are held 'captive' and animals who are considered to be 'wild.' While there are clear distinctions, for example, between an elephant who is held captive in a cage in a zoo and shipped around here and there as a mating machine, and an elephant who is free to move around in large wild areas, even those who are fenced, the latter individuals still are captive but to a lesser degree than their caged relatives. Many other examples make the case that 'wild' does not mean 'free.' I highly recommend this book for those who want a good picture of the complexities of distinguishing between wild and captive and also what the word 'nature' means in an epoch called the 'anthropocene.' There's a smorgasboard of opinions, each of which needs to be openly discussed, as we move into unprecedented times of increased human domination of our magnificent planet - earth, air, and water. We're here, there, and everywhere, and it isn't getting better. Excellent for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Marc Bekoff, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado * Boulder *"Wild Life is a must-read, especially for young people growing up in a world where all of nature is managed and the divides between in situ and ex situ have disappeared. Braverman interviews a wide array of conservationists and tells real life stories of species on the brink of extinction, making a unique contribution to conservation and to how we think about nature." -- Alexander J. Travis, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future * Cornell University *"Wild Life: The Institution of Nature is the second book by Irus Braverman dealing with the topic of zoos, following the highly acclaimed 2012 publication of Zooland: The Institution of Captivity. In short, both books are mustreads for anyone in our profession, with the author showing increasing understanding of and appreciation for our community . . . Wild Life is the quintessential popular scientific book about the One Plan approach to species conservation." -- Markus Gussett * WAZA News *"Should the goal of conservation efforts be the preservation of endangered species in their natural state, in an environment free of human intervention? Or is it legitimate to conserve vanishing animals in captivity—ex situ—even if this means that some species will depend entirely on the kindness of zookeepers for their continued survival? Examining this issue in fine detail, Irus Braverman posed this question to more than 120 biologists, zoo professionals, government officials, and conservation workers . . . What becomes evident is that there is neither a sharp bifurcation between wild and captive nor a linear continuum with wild nature at one end and managed nature at the other. Like it or not, human intervention has now become an inescapable element in what we mean by 'wild.'" -- Laurence A. Marschall * Natural History Magazine *"Ms. Braverman has written a book that challenges the reader's beliefs on every page, stimulates so much thought, and creates so many 'aha!' moments that I wished it was twice as long . . . Through Wild Life, Irus Braverman excellently traces the shapes of the debates and brings to light a side of conservation that needs to be understood. In a very real way, the fate of so many lives on our planet hinges on these issues." -- Todd Simmons * Staten Island Advance *"Braverman has written a book that challenges the reader's beliefs on every page, stimulates so much thought, and creates so many "aha!" moments that I wished it was twice as long. . . . It is a book that anyone who is interested in the direction that our world is taking should read. It is a book that anyone interested in conservation should have, that anyone who has a bumper sticker that says 'Save the (fill in species)' or is a member of a conservation organization should use to understand the complexities of our attempts for these species' salvation. Through Wild Life, Irus Braverman excellently traces the shapes of the debates and brings to light a side of conservation that needs to be understood. In a very real way, the fate of so many lives on our planet hinges on these issues." -- Todd Simmons * Silive *"Wild Life is a wonderfully lucid, textured exploration of the many meanings of 'conservation' today. It is required reading for anyone interested in what 'nature' and 'wilderness' mean in the context of the sixth extinction event in the history of the planet. Braverman makes a crucial contribution to the growing scholarship that pushes biopolitical thought beyond homo sapiens." -- Cary Wolfe"Wild Life is a journey through the changing conceptual geography of species conservation. Drawing on a cast of over one hundred conservation practitioners, Braverman builds a unique portrait of a field at a turning point. A fascinating compendium of boundary-challenging case studies in conservation and a deeply felt ethnography, Wild Life is essential reading." -- Emma Marris * author of Rambunctious Garden *"Like any good ethnography, Wild Life reveals dysfunctions, prejudices, habits, and conflicts underlying the straightforward, objective ecological science that we might desire." -- Randy Malamud * Common Knowledge *"Braverman delivers a beautifully argued analysis of conservation efforts over the last three decades. In this masterful book, nothing less than the essence of what we mean by 'nature' is at stake. Wild Life makes the voices of conservationists heard while providing a sharp diagnosis of the ethical dilemmas and paradoxes of their efforts to save endangered species. A must-read." -- Ursula K. HeiseTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Bifurcated Life chapter abstractChapter 1 discusses the institution of the divide between in situ and ex situ and traces the administrative, disciplinary, regulatory, and historical perspectives of this divide. A collage of narratives by numerous conservationists demonstrates how the in situ and ex situ terminology has shaped their thinking and everyday practices. The chapter also dedicates considerable attention to the meaning of nature, both in its manifestation as wilderness and in the context of the recent debate over the Anthropocene. Throughout, this chapter highlights the deep commitment and simultaneous ambivalence toward the idea of wild nature on the part of conservationists, who oscillate between eroding the in situ - ex situ dichotomy and fortifying it. 2Captive Life chapter abstractChapter 2 opens with the story of Marius, the giraffe killed by the Copenhagen Zoo for being "surplus" to the genetically managed ex situ population of his subspecies. The chapter traces the evolution of the zoo into the quintessential site of ex situ conservation, a capacity that is most pronounced in the depiction of zoos as Noah's arks or as "insurance" populations. This chapter highlights the ethical dilemmas that conservationists confront upon deciding if and when to transfer the last surviving members of imperiled species into captivity, and the divergence between the focus on individual animals by animal rights activists and the species-oriented focus by conservationists. Finally, the chapter discusses those species and individuals who are captive-for-life—for whom the captive facilities are the only viable habitat. Such situations not only question the traditional in situ – ex situ distinctions, but also the nature of ex situ itself. 3Continuous Life chapter abstractChapter 3 documents how conservation is currently morphing into a continuum between the two poles of in situ and ex situ. From the endless combinations of in situ and ex situ, the chapter briefly describes seven inter situ nodes: genebanks, zoo breeding centers, conservation farms, conservation hatcheries, protected areas, wildlife refuges, and national parks. The chapter starts with the node perceived by many of my interviewees as closest to the ex situ—or captive—pole, and gradually moves along the continuum toward what is generally perceived as closest to the in situ—or wilderness—pole. While documenting the continuum approach in species conservation, this chapter simultaneously challenges the continuum's linear and prefixed constructions. Throughout, the chapter points to the inherent messiness and fluidity between and within the sites. While the practitioners who perform this work are fully aware of this messiness, their conceptual framework often lags far behind. 4Dynamic Life chapter abstractBecause of the complexities and sensitivities of the interrelations between in situ and ex situ, the movement between the various nodes on the continuum has become its own site of management. Chapter 4 focuses on the primary mode of movement from captivity into the wild—reintroductions—and on the "soft law" that regulates them. A discussion of the reintroductions of the Schaus swallowtail butterfly and the eastern hellbender serves to demonstrate some of the difficulties that ensue when animals are physically transferred between captive and wild settings, and some of the strategies taken up by conservationists to deal with such difficulties. 5Regulatory Life chapter abstractChapter 5 centers on the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973. This focus serves the book's broader goal of exploring the powers and the limits of legal devices for regulating conservation, and their reinforcement and negotiations of the in situ – ex situ divide. The chapter shows how this divide still matters for administrators who assess, count, or discount animal bodies for listing and recovery. It discusses four legal strategies through which ESA norms and related practices distinguish captive from wild: the definition of "take," the designation of non-essential experimental populations, hybridization policies, and split listing practices. The chapter also illustrates the critical importance of categorizing animal bodies as existing either in situ or ex situ for assigning them with legal protections, as well as the negotiations that take place within this regulatory sphere to account for the fluidity and variation of conservation practices. 6Integrated Life chapter abstractChapter 6 turns to focus on databases and population management. The chapter demonstrates how the two distinct in situ and ex situ models increasingly bleed into one another and how certain computer models for population management potentially enable the integration of the previously separate in situ and ex situ models. The science of small population management that has emerged to address the fragmentation and low numbers of animal populations in both zoos and the wild provides the scientific language for bridging between the previously disparate management models. CBSG's One Plan approach in particular translates the geographic and genetic fragmentation of populations, and the alienation between their managers, into integrative networks. Although the rhetorical distinction between in situ and ex situ conservation is far from dead, the interconnections between these two conservation poles through approaches such as the One Plan are increasingly realized in practice. Conclusion: Wild Life chapter abstractWild Life concludes with the story of Rotoroa Island in New Zealand, demonstrating the emerging understanding among certain conservationists that nature may need to be managed in perpetuity. This understanding raises urgent questions about nature's definition, the definition of conservation, and the role that managing both nonhumans and humans should play in the conservation of natures. Introduction: Natural Life chapter abstractPartula snails, Puerto Rican crested toads, Rio Grande silvery minnows, and dusky seaside sparrows are but a few species stories reflected upon in the introduction. Each story reveals one aspect in the complex interrelations between wild and captive management. As the stories show, government agencies, field experts, zoo administrators, and population managers are only a fraction of the massive, behind-the-scenes international network of knowledge, genetic material, and real animals that comprise global conservation today, all entangled in messy efforts to battle extinction and save life. The stories also present in vivid detail the attempts by conservationists to integrate the previously insular and bifurcated conservation systems: conservation "in" and "outside" the wild (in situ and ex situ). And while these stories all focus on life and survival, they are inevitably also about death and extinction.
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New York University Press Smoke and Mirrors The Politics and Culture of
Book SynopsisA history of the politics of air pollution.Trade Review[A] fascinating, provocative, pathbreaking book. . . . Air pollution can no longer be understood simply as an issue of economics, science, and engineering, but one that implicates fundamental values and controversies surrounding justice, fairness, and the construction of knowledge. -- Gary Bryner,author of From Promises to Performance: Achieving Global Environmental GoalsEssential reading for social environmental historians, environmental scientists, cultural and social historians, and public policy specialists. -- Bill Luckin,author of Pollution and ControlThe well-told stories in its diverse chapters provide lessons for today as we continue to struggle to curb urban air pollution and its health effects. -- Jonathan Samet,coeditor of Indoor Air Pollution: A Health PerspectiveThis collection of richly detailed and pioneering essays will be welcomed as a major contribution . . . providing a broad-ranging and multifaceted overview of the history of society's reaction to and struggle to protect itself from air-borne industrial toxins. -- Christine Rosen,author of The Limits of PowerThis excellent collection offers a complex and nuanced introduction to a field that intersects with many others, including studies of social stratification and social movements. -- Graig Willse,City University of New YorkArguing the importance of the social dimensions of air pollution issues, this collection of 15 original essays addresses a wide range of topics ranging from the perception of the pollution in Victorian England to automotive pollution control in prewar Germany to pesticide drift in modern California. Several essays are provocative. well written, and richly detailed; others are vignettes. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Emergence of Air Pollution as a ProblemPerceptions and E?ects of Late Victorian Air Pollution "The Invisible Evil": Noxious Vapor and Public Health in Manchester during the Age of Industry Public Perceptions of Smoke Pollution in Victorian Manchester Uplands Downwind: Acidity and Ecological Change in the Southeast Lancashire Moorlands The "Smoky City" between the Wars The Merits of the Precautionary Principle: Controlling Automobile Exhausts in Germany and the United States before Interpreting the London Fog Disaster Localizing Smog: Transgressions in the Therapeutic Landscape Air Pollution Policy TodayA Fine Balance: Automobile Pollution Control Strategies in California Who Owns the Air? Clean Air Act Implementation as a Negotiation of Common Property Rights Air Pollution in Spain: A "Peripheral" Nation Transforms Clearing the Air and Breathing Freely: The Health Politics of Air Pollution and Asthma Invisible People, Invisible Places: Connecting Air Pollution and Pesticide Drift in California Notes from the Field: Air Pollution Engineering as Cultural Experience The Social and Political Construction of Air Pollution: Air Pollution Policies for Mexico CityAfterword Contributors Index
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University of Arizona Press Cornerstone at the Confluence
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University of Arizona Press Cornerstone at the Confluence
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Chinese Environmental Law
Book SynopsisThis authoritative Research Handbook presents, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the salient content and major developments in environmental law in transitional China.Trade Review'The newly amended Environmental Protection Law of PRC (2014) indicates the prominence of law and its key role in the development of environmental management and protection in China. At the same time, interest in Chinese environmental law is growing as China begins to play an increasingly important role in economic and environmental affairs globally. This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and precise introduction to the environmental law of China and is an accessible and useful guide.' --Wang Xi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China'This Research Handbook contains a profound systematic analysis of the amazing development of contemporary Chinese environmental law and its contribution to tackling the many environmental problems China is confronting. It provides foreign readers with unique access to the various branches of Chinese environmental law including the relevant law-making, administrative and judicial institutions, identifying still-existing gaps, regulatory deficiencies, implementation problems and reform needs. The Research Handbook reflects the high academic quality of the younger generation of Chinese environmental lawyers.' --Eckard Rehbinder, Goethe University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Qin Tianbao and Zhou Chen 2. The Chinese Legal System Wang Huanhuan 3. Air Pollution Prevention Law Yu Wenxuan and Chen Shiyin 4. Water and Ocean Law Liu Nengye 5. Soil Protection Law Tou Xiaodong 6. Law on Prevention of Toxic and Harmful Substances Pollution Hou Jiaru 7. Law on Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes Hou Jiaru 8. Climate Change and Energy Law Jiang Xiaoyi 9. Land Management Law Tou Xiaodong 10. Ocean and Freshwater Resources Conservation Law Chang Hong 11. Biodiversity Conservation Law Yu Wenxuan 12. Forest Resources Law Zhang Shijun 13. Mineral Resources Law Zhang Shijun 14. Protected Areas Law Ren Shidan 15. Environmental Liability Zhao Xiaobo and Zhang Jianwei 16. Environmental Dispute Settlement in China Zhao Xiaobo and Zhang Jianwei 17. China’s Position on International Environmental Issues Liu Nengye 18. China’s Participation into Major International Environmental Agreements Jiang Xiaoyi 19. Conclusion Zhou Chen Index
£175.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd European Emissions Trading in Practice An
Book SynopsisThis unique and up-to-date book analyses the functioning of the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and assesses the extent to which relevant legislation has affected its capacity to promote cost-effective reduction of European carbon emissions.Trade Review'Emission markets are crucial both to provide the right incentives to reduce GHG emissions and to fund investments necessary for a transition to a low carbon world. Emission markets however cannot achieve these objectives if inappropriately designed. This book is a novel and fresh attempt to look at the real functioning of the EU Emission Trading Scheme and to assess its effectiveness and inconsistencies, its positive and negative impacts on industrial and financial markets. With the overall objective to improve its design and performance.' - Carlo Carraro, University of Venice, Italy 'This important book has the great achievement of addressing a complicated and socially highly debated issue of how society could be given optimal incentives for emission reductions from a legal and economic perspective. Moreover, it not only addresses the various issues from a theoretical perspective, but provides important empirical evidence on the working of emissions trading as well. The book will undoubtedly have important lessons not only at the theoretical level, but also for policy makers interested in improving the effectiveness of emission trading schemes.' --- From the foreword by Michael FaureTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: An Overview 3. Toward a Cap and Trade Scheme Solution: Economic and Legal Instruments to Address the Problem of Externality 4. Legal and Economic Aspects of the European Emissions Trading Scheme 5. Analysis of the Effectiveness of the EU ETS: Assessing the Stringency of the ETS Cap 6. Analysis of the Allocation Rules: Do Polluters Pay under Grandfathering? 7. ETS Reform and Carbon Leakage: Assessing the Inconsistencies of the New ETS Directive 8. Summary and Conclusions References Index
£92.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Governing Disasters
Book SynopsisFor teaching purposes it is ideal for courses on risk regulation, disaster law and policy, and crisis management or as a supplement in courses on environmental law, transport law, space law or land use.Trade ReviewCatastrophes present us with a paradox. Many people don't think they will happen, so before a catastrophe, regulations are typically viewed as unnecessarily invasive. But in the aftermath of a disaster everybody suddenly blames the government for not having been strict enough. Overregulation often follows. In light of the unprecedented series of catastrophes in recent years, more than ever, top leaders in government and business must understand and overcome this regulatory challenge. Alberto Alemanno's innovative book tells you how. --Erwann Michel-Kerjan, The Wharton School's Center for Risk Management[I]t is a valuable source of references to the literature for those who wish to learn more about this specific sub-field of risk research. Each of the chapters, from a different disciplinary perspective, ends with a bibliography and identifies a number of themes about the nature of emergency risk regulation. The book should be a valuable source of information and references for regulators, the regulated, and scholars in a wide range of disciplines such as law, economics, risk analysis, management, political science and sociology as it provides an original perspective on emergency risk regulation. --Tatjana Jovanic, European Journal of Risk RegulationThe challenges posed by risky decisions are well documented. These decisions become even more daunting when they must be made in a midst of a crisis. Using the European volcanic risk crisis as the principal case study, Alberto Alemanno and the other contributors to this thought provoking volume derive valuable lessons for how policy makers can cope with the attendant time pressures, uncertainties, coordination issues, and risk communication problems. Once the next emergency risk situation occurs, it may be too late to learn about how to respond. Governing Disasters should be required reading for all policy makers and risk analysts in advance of the next international risk crisis. --W. Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University and Editor, Journal of Risk and UncertaintyTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction PART I: THE VOLCANIC ASH CRISIS: WHAT HAPPENED AND LESSONS LEARNED 1. What Happened and Lessons Learned: A European and International Perspective Alberto Alemanno 2. Which Risk and Who Decides When There Are So Many Players? Donald Macrae 3. The Financial Impact of the Volcanic Ash Crisis on the European Airline Industry Maddalena Ragona, Francesca Hansstein and Mario Mazzocchi PART II: REVISITING THE VOLCANIC ASH CRISIS: IDEOLOGIES, NARRATIVES AND COMMUNICATION OF EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION 4. Risk and the Role of Scientific Input for Contingency Planning: A Response to the April 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Volcano Eruption Chris Johnson and Alain Jeunemaitre 5. Representing Emergency Risks: Media, Risks and ‘Acts of God’ in the Volcanic Ash Cloud Adam Burgess 6. The Challenge of Emergency Risk Communication: Lessons Learned in Trust and Risk Communication from the Volcanic Ash Crisis Sweta Chakraborty PART III: BEYOND THE ASH CRISIS: THE MANY FACETS OF EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION 7. Paradigms Lost: Emergency Safety Regulation under Scientific and Technical Uncertainty Vincent Brannigan 8. If and When: Towards Standard-based Regulation in the Reduction of Catastrophic Risks Alfredo Fioritto and Marta Simoncini 9. Normative Uncertainty and Ethics in Emergency Risk Regulation A.M. Viens PART IV: THE ORGANIZATIONAL MECHANISMS OF EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION 10. Effective Regulatory Processes for Crisis Management: An Analysis of Codified Crisis Management in Europe Lorenza Jachia and Valentin Nikonov 11. Abrupt Environmental Changes: Scenario Planning for Catastrophic Security Risks Chad Michael Briggs 12. Systemic Risks and the Reformation of the European Union Law Concerning Network Industries Francisco B. López-Jurado PART V: AN EXAMPLE OF CODIFIED EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION: THE EU PASSENGERS’ RIGHTS REGULATION 13. Unexpected Turbulence: On the Application of the Denied Boarding Regulation to Exceptional Situations Morten Broberg 14. The Volcanic Ash Crisis and EU Air Passenger Rights Nick Bernard PART VI: NEW IDEAS FOR EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION 15. The Fallout from the Fallout: Hazards, Risks and Organizational Learning Christopher Lawless 16. Rising from the Ashes: A Governance Perspective on Emerging Systemic Risks Giuliano G. Castellano Epilogue Alberto Alemanno Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Dictionary of Environmental and Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis state-of-the-art Dictionary defines terms employed in international agreements, national legislation and scholarly legal studies related to comparative and international environmental law and the emerging law of climate change.Trade ReviewThis dictionary's unique aspect is that the terms (but not he definitions) are translated into both Chinese characters and Mandarin Pinyin formats... The editors perform a valuable service by helping to diminish the confusion that inevitably arises when representatives of very different legal cultures must work together... Recommended. --T.H. Koenig, ChoiceThere seems to me to be a need for a reference source giving clear and accurate definitions for students of international law who need to know about climate change and the environment. This book can be recommended as a useful step in the right direction. --Martin Guba, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction and User’s Guide Dictionary of Environmental and Climate Change Law References
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Compliance and Enforcement in Environmental Law
Book SynopsisCompliance and enforcement are critical elements of assuring that international environmental treaties and domestic environmental laws actually produce desired environmental outcomes. This timely work provides a comprehensive worldwide perspective on how to assure compliance with and enforcement of environmental laws more effectively.Trade Review’This is a remarkable collection of essays all focussing on compliance and enforcement in environmental law from different angles. The contributions provide important suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of environmental law and policy and the book will therefore undoubtedly be of great interest to anyone interested in increasing the effectiveness of environmental law.’ -- Michael G. Faure, Maastricht University, The Netherlands’The nations of the world are building the legal rules to stop pollution, protect biodiversity and promote sustainable development. But there is a gap between the rules and their compliance that must be closed if we are to protect the environmental foundation of our prosperity. This important collaboration between IUCN and INECE provides evidence and insights that will help judges, prosecutors, investigators and all who care about the planet, close the compliance gap.’ -- Antonio Herman Benjamin, Justice, High Court of Brazil (STJ), Catholic University of Brasilia Law School, INECE and IUCN Commission on Environmental Law’This volume presents a comprehensive coverage of the challenges in ensuring effective compliance and enforcement in environmental law from the international to the local level. It will make a significant contribution to the growing body of literature in this area and be of interest to practitioners, scholars and administrators alike. The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law is proud to join with Edward Elgar in the publication of this seminal work as the first in a new series based on the annual Colloquia of the Academy.’ -- Rob Fowler, University of South AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Sheila Abed PART I: COMPLIANCE WITH MULTI-LATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS 1. Interlinkages between Multi-Lateral Environmental Agreements: International Compliance Cooperation Gregory Rose 2. Compliance and Enforcement of International Environmental Conventions in Australia Zada Lipman 3. The Environmental Jurisprudence of International Tribunals: Does Sustainability Make a Difference? Klaus Bosselmann 4. Giving the Public a Voice in MEA Compliance Mechanisms Svitlana Kravchenko 5. Enforcing International Environmental Law through Domestic Law Mechanisms in the United States: Civil Society Initiatives Against Global Warming Linda A. Malone PART II: COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT STRATEGY 6. Doing What’s Important: Setting Priorities for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Programs Michael M. Stahl PART III: COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT TOOLS 7. Organizational Liability for Environmental Crimes in Civil and Common Law Systems Jeffrey G. Miller and Caroline Justice 8. Federal Civil Environmental Enforcement in the United States: Process, Players, and Priorities John C. Cruden and Bruce S. Gelber 9. Does Self-Policing Improve Environmental Compliance? Paul B. Stretesky and Michael J. Lynch 10. Solution to Compensation for Transboundary Pollution Damage: A Case Study on the Songhua River Pollution Accident Wang Xi, Yang Huaguo and Fu Lu 11. Driving Compliance to and Enforcement of South African Legislation by Means of a Hybrid of ‘New’ Environmental Governance Instruments Willemien du Plessis and Johan Nel PART IV: ROLE OF THE COURTS 12. Lowering Barriers to Judicial Enforcement: Civil Procedure and Environmental Ethics Heather McLeod-Kilmurray 13. Principled Sentencing for Environmental Offences Brian J. Preston PART V: ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT 14. Improving Environmental Protection in China: The Role of Green GDP in Encouraging Local Government Heads to Implement Environmental Law Na Li 15. Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Measures: Opportunities and Challenges of Local Authorities in South Africa Anél du Plessis PART VI: ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS 16. The Enforcement of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading in Europe: Reliability Ensured? Marjan Peeters 17. Globalization and the Evolution of Environmental Governance in China’s Socialist Market Economy Kishan Khoday PART VII: RESOURCE PROTECTION 18. Enforcement Against Illegal Logging in the Brazilian Amazon Brenda Brito and Paulo Barreto 19. Judicial Enforcement of Liabilities and Responsibilities for Pollution Prevention and Remediation: No more ‘Business as Usual’ for South African Mines Louis J. Kotzé 20. Legislation for Sustainable Forest Management in the Central African Sub-Region: What Prospects for Effective Implementation? Christopher F. Tamasang 21. An Assessment of Marine Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in the Pacific Islands Region Pio E. Manoa and Yoli Tomtavala 22. The Recognition and Enforcement of Indigenous Customary Law in Environmental Regimes and Natural Resource Management Donna Craig and Michael I. Jeffery PART VIII: CITIZEN SUITS AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT 23. Public Interest Litigation as a Mechanism for Enforcing Environmental Rights and Duties in Uganda Emmanuel Kasimbazi 22. Legislation, Citizens’ Rights, and the Self-Determination of a Developing Country: A Papua New Guinean Case Study Mary A. Kaidonis and Natalie P. Stoianoff 23. Environmental Public Participation in China: A New Force for Environmental Law Compliance and Enforcement? Qun Du 24. The Role of Local Communities in Environmental and Natural Resources Management: The Case of Kenya Albert Mumma PART IX: CORPORATE REPORTING 25. Compliance and Enforcement Related to Mandatory Corporate Reporting Requirements: Is There a Future? Karen Bubna-Litic Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Challenge of Food Security
Book SynopsisThis timely study addresses the pressing issue of food security through a range of interdisciplinary contributions, providing both scholarly and policy-making perspectives.Trade ReviewThe Challenge of Food Security addresses one of the key development challenges of our time. It examines issues related to food security in a comprehensive manner that covers both theoretical perspectives and policy challenges. It will be a key reference book for anyone interested in issues related to food security. --Philippe Cullet, University of London, UKEdward Elgar's brave book, The Challenge of Food Security is a timely book and raises awareness of the seriousness of the matter of food security. --Sally Ramage, The Criminal LawyerThis is a timely book which addresses one of the greatest challenges for international regulation: food security. The book is a comprehensive treatment of various aspects of food security from its origins to the relationship between food security and other values, the role that commodity trading plays in exacerbating food insecurity, the importance of adequate food governance, together with specific food security problems like fish, water and genetic resources. The editors should be congratulated on a stimulating collection of essays that brings together a diverse range of scholars and which sheds real light on the complex dimensions of the food security debate. --Fiona Smith, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. The International Policy and Regulatory Challenges of Food Security: An Overview Rosemary Rayfuse and Nicole Weisfelt PART II: ACCESS TO FOOD 2. A Fresh Look at the Roots of Food Insecurity Craig Pearson 3. Food Security in the Great Lakes Region: Reconciling Trade Liberalisation with Human Security Goals Anagha Joshi 4. Right to Food, Sustainable Development and Trade: All Faces of the Same Cube? Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi PART III: SUSTAINABILITY AND FOOD SECURITY 5. Crop Disease, Management and Food Security Rebecca Ford 6. The Contribution of Plant Genetic Resources to Food Security Bert Visser and Niels Louwaars 7. Water and Food Security Colin Chartres PART IV: FOOD, TRADE AND INVESTMENT 8. The WTO and Food Security: What’s Wrong with the Rules? Christian Häberli 9. The Financialisation of Agricultural Commodity Futures Trading: The 2006–08 Global Food Crisis Nicola Colbran 10. Food Security, Sustainability and Trade Distortions: Fisheries Subsidies and the WTO Margaret Young 11. ‘Land Grabbing’ in the Shadow of the Law: Legal Frameworks Regulating the Global Land Rush Lorenzo Cotula PART V: FOOD GOVERNANCE 12. Global Food Security Governance: The Committee on World Food Security, Comprehensive Framework for Action and the G8/G20 Matias Margulis 13. Regional Initiatives on Food Security Md Saidul Islam and Iris Carla De Jesus 14. Food Security in the Era of Retail Governance Doris Fuchs, Katharina Glaab, Agni Kalfagianni and Richard Meyer-Eppler Index
£115.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Polar Law
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£260.82
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Climate and Energy Law and Policy in the EU and
Book SynopsisGreenhouse gas concentrations are rapidly increasing and as a result, fundamental economic transitions are needed to limit global warming. This essential book examines the climate and energy policies of selected jurisdictions in Europe and East Asia that have vowed to become carbon neutral.Trade Review‘No matter whether from the perspective of emissions and from that of carbon neutrality, the climate and energy law and policy in the EU and East Asia is vital for global climate governance. The book examines comprehensively and insightfully climate law, energy law, and transition and cooperation respectively in EU and East Asia, which provides a solid foundation and important conclusions for comparing laws and practices in different jurisdictions.’ -- Tianbao Qin, Wuhan University, China‘Prof. Stefan Weishaar and colleagues made a superb analysis of multiple aspects of climate and energy law and policy in the EU and East Asia, including the challenges of transition and the possibilities of cooperation! A must read!’ -- Kurt Deketelaere, KU Leuven, Belgium and University of Helsinki, FinlandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Climate and energy law and policy in the EU and East Asia 1 Stefan E. Weishaar and Eunjung Kim PART I CLIMATE CHANGE PERSPECTIVES 2 South Korean green growth and climate change policies 13 Eiji Sawada 3 China’s climate change governance: a perspective from the development of carbon emission trading systems 31 Bingyu Liu 4 Three decades of learning-by-doing: the evolving climate change mitigation policy of the European Union 47 Kati Kulovesi and Harro van Asselt PART II ENERGY PERSPECTIVES 5 China’s energy policy: towards energy transition 70 Xiaoping Zhang 6 A decade of EU energy policy 103 Claudia Kettner and Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig 7 The Dutch and German coal exit: an impact analysis of policymaking 131 Sami Madani PART III TRANSITION AND COOPERATION 8 Green deal transition and cooperation 154 Stefan E. Weishaar 9 Linking ETS in China, Japan and South Korea: process, alignments and future management 181 Joseph Dellatte and Sven Rudolph Index
£85.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Multilateral Compliance Mechanisms in EU
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This book is situated at the fascinating and insufficiently explored interface between EU and international environmental law. More specifically, in light of the EU’s legal framework, it considers how the EU may or may not use compliance mechanisms established by international agreements to further its environmental objectives. Rich in examples, context and doctrinal analysis, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between EU and public international law.’ -- Joanne Scott, European University Institute‘Through the lens of compliance mechanisms, this topical book thoroughly analyses the tension between the EU’s brief to internationalise its environmental action and the boundaries set by EU law itself. It offers an original perspective on how the EU needs to find ways to square international environmental action and its claim to autonomy.’ -- Ramses A. Wessel, University of Groningen, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Setting the scene: rising tensions in the EU’s external environmental action 2. Global environmental pressures, the EU and effective environmental treaties 3. Compliance mechanisms and their contribution to effective environmental treaties 4. Establishing compliance mechanisms and working with EU law boundaries 5. Participating in compliance mechanisms and relying on EU law principles 6. Deciding under compliance mechanisms and making it matter for EU law 7. Final reflections and conclusions: multilateral compliance mechanisms as part of EU environmental law Annex: The EU’s environmental treaties with compliance mechanisms Bibliography Index
£122.40
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Law Governance and Planetary
Book SynopsisTrade Review'The planetary boundaries concept provides an ideal framework for connecting science with law at the global level. This book explores this connection in great detail, from our undeniable need for limits and the fundamental concepts of ethics, justice and governance to the comprehensive assessment of the legal implications of each of the individual boundaries.' -- - Will Steffen, The Australian National University'Co-edited by Duncan French and Louis Kotz - two of the foremost scholars in the field of environmental law in the era of the Anthropocene - this Research Handbook is the first comprehensive attempt to investigate, from a legal perspective, the human dimensions of scientific concepts of planetary boundaries. The book brings together a fascinating series of contributions from some of the leading legal thinkers in the field. At a time when raging fires and other ''unprecedented'' environmental disasters are providing increasing evidence of the consequences of failing to respect planetary limits, this book is a timely and important reminder of the contribution that can be made by law in ensuring that humanity and our environment remain within the planet's ''safe operating space''.' -- -- Jacqueline Peel, University of Melbourne, Australia'If international environmental law is to stay relevant in the face of overwhelming evidence of its inability to address the galloping environmental harms humanity is witnessing, it needs to embrace a fundamental reset of its premises, conceptual pillars, and governance models. Such a reset requires imagination -- imagination that is outrageous in its ambition and fuelled by outrage. This Research Handbook, edited by two of the finest international environmental law scholars of our time, Duncan French and Louis Kotz, is a work of such outrageous imagination. It challenges legal boundaries in its quest to protect planetary ones, and in so doing takes us closer to law and governance fit for environmental purpose.' -- - Lavanya Rajamani, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xi Preface xii 1 Staying within the planet’s ‘safe operating space’? Law and the planetary boundaries 1 Louis J. Kotzé and Duncan French PART I LEGAL, ETHICAL AND GOVERNANCE DIMENSIONS OF THE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES 2 Exploring the planetary boundaries and environmental law: historical development, interactions and synergies 21 Alice Bleby, Cameron Holley and Ben Milligan 3 Governing the complexity of planetary boundaries: a state-of-the-art analysis of social science scholarship 45 Rakhyun E. Kim and Louis J. Kotzé 4 Planetary boundaries, planetary ethics and climate justice in the Anthropocene 65 Sam Adelman 5 Science, law and planetary uncertainty 84 Lynda Collins 6 Planetary boundaries intra muros : cities and the Anthropocene 103 Helmut Philipp Aust and Janne E. Nijman PART II INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES 7 Planetary boundaries and regime interaction in international law 125 Dario Piselli and Harro van Asselt 8 Changing role of law-making in responding to planetary boundaries? 147 Giovanna M. Frisso and Elizabeth A. Kirk 9 International law, planetary boundaries and teleconnections 167 Ellen Hey 10 Compliance with planetary boundaries in international law 183 Jonas Ebbesson 11 Exploring the planetary boundaries’ wasteland: international law and the advent of the Molysmocene 203 Michael Hennessy Picard and Olivier Barsalou PART III PLANETARY BOUNDARIES AND THE LAW 12 Loss of biosphere integrity (biodiversity loss and extinctions) 221 Han Somsen and Arie Trouwborst 13 Climate change 245 Jonathan Verschuuren 14 Stratospheric ozone depletion 260 Louise du Toit 15 Atmospheric aerosol loading 277 Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli and Emily Webster 16 Ocean acidification 294 Tim Stephens 17 Nitrogen and phosphorus flows to the biosphere and oceans 309 Daniela Diz 18 Freshwater consumption and the global hydrological cycle 324 Nathan John Cooper 19 Land system change 342 Karen Morrow 20 Chemical pollution (and the release of novel entities) 363 Tiina Paloniitty, Chukwukpee Nzegwu and Duncan French Index
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