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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 systematically explores the emerging legal discipline of Earth System Law (ESL), challenging the closed system of law and marking a new era in law and society scholarship.Law has historically provided stability, certainty, and predictability in the ordering of social relations (predominantly between humans). However, in recent decades the Earth's relationship in law has changed with increasing recognition of the standing of Mother Earth, inherent rights of the environment (such as flora and fauna, rivers), and now recognition of the multiple relations of the Anthropocene. This book questions the fundamental assumption that the law' only applies to humans, and that the earth, as a system, has intrinsic rights and responsibilities. In the last ten years the planet has experienced its hottest period since human evolution, and by the year 2100, unless substantive action is taken, many species will be lost, and planetary conditions will be intolerable for human civilisatTrade Review"The unprecedented challenges we are facing in the Anthropocene require radically new governance approaches that recognize the entanglement between human activities and Earth system processes. This volume provides a cutting-edge contribution to the emerging field of Earth system law by exploring and proposing novel legal developments for governing planetary transformations created by humans."Agni Kalfagianni, Co-chair of the Earth System Governance Project"Earth System Law: Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene is a ground-breaking work in the climate governance literature. The book reassesses the status quo for legal process. To do so, it uses years of expert insight into how to meet the challenges environmental change presents to governance as its measure of assessment. Its conclusion is that the status quo for legal process has become dangerously antiquated at this critical moment in Earth’s history. Much of the book explores what types of legal reform are needed from various disciplinary positions. The result is an outline of a new theory of law, which draws its direction from pragmatic solutions to the governance problems created by climate change.Undoubtably, this theory will appear strange and unfamiliar to many, straining their legal imagination. But this strain is a testament to the book’s importance. Many of us cling — with good reason — to our confidence in how society ought to be ordered. Our legal status quo, which supports the modern order, was hard-won in the trenches of Verdun and on the beaches of Normandy. Since then, it has served as the midwife for the birth of the modern nation-state, establishing a common ground for the negotiation of conflict in multiple contexts. Undermining this status quo may invite many risks to social stability. On the other hand, law inevitably must adapt to change and, as this book suggests, pragmatism must trump convention at this time when we stand on the precipice of environmental catastrophe.For these reasons, Earth System Law: Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene is a provocative book, which ought to be read widely."Fenner Stewart, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Calgary, Canada; Dentons Canada LLP Research Fellow in Energy Law & Policy; Research Fellow in Energy and Environment at The School of Public Policy; Climate Governance Expert at the Canada Climate Law InitiativeTable of ContentsForeword Preface 1. Introduction: Origins and Evolution of Earth System Law PART I: Mapping the Contours of Earth System Law 2. Dimensions and Definitions, Signposts and Silos in Earth System Law PART II: The Analytical Dimensions of Earth System Law 3. Earth System Law in the Age of Humanity 4. International Relations and the Analytical Foundations of Earth System Law 5. An Earth System Science-based Perspective: A Foundational Feature of Earth System Law 6. The ESL Framework: Re-visioning in the Age of Transformation and the Anthropocene PART III: The Normative Dimensions of Earth System 7. Rights of Nature as an Expression of Earth System Law 8. The Ethical Place of the Non-human World in Earth System Law: Pathways of Transformation 9. Legitimacy and the Role of Law for Social and Ecological Resilience 10. Climate (Im)mobilities in Migration Governance and Law: Integrating an Earth Systems Perspective PART IV: The Transformative Dimensions of Earth System Law 11. The Earth System, the Orbit, and International Law: The Cosmolegal Proposal 12. Integrating the Mexican Water Law into the Earth System Law Perspective 13. A Framework of Earth System Justice in the Earth System’s Legal Context 14. Common Interest, Concern or Heritage? The Commons as a Structural Support for an Earth System Law PART V: Plotting the Course of Earth System Law 15. Conclusion: Plotting the Course of Earth System Law on the Precipice of the Anthropocene

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

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to offshore oil and gas floating production. It deals with all legal and commercial risk management issues from initial concept through design, construction, modification, installation, acceptance, production and offloading, including ancillary legal topics; JV/consortiums, financing, insurance, decommissioning and intellectual property. Floating production projects are a popular method of achieving offshore oil and gas production, utilising vessels sitting over the offshore reservoir, receiving well fluids which are then processed, stored and offloaded to tankers. They operate in deep water, harsh conditions and marginal fields, and may be redeployed once the reservoir is depleted. There are numerous legal issues which arise in the context of floating production due to its specific characteristics, presenting a unique combination of challenges with the attendant risks and potential liabilities. This book analysTable of ContentsTABLE OF CASES, TABLE OF LEGISLATION, ABOUT THE AUTHORS, LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS, CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO FLOATING PRODUCTION, CHAPTER 2 FPSO DESIGN, CHAPTER 3 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS, CHAPTER 4 CONVERSIONS, REFURBISHMENT AND MODIFICATION, CHAPTER 5 THE CHARTER PERIOD, CHAPTER 6 CONTRACTOR REMUNERATION, CHAPTER 7 FPSO OFFLOADING, CHAPTER 8 INDEMNITY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY CLAUSES, CHAPTER 9 INSURANCE, CHAPTER 10 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, CHAPTER 11 TERMINATION, CHAPTER 12 DECOMMISSIONING, CHAPTER 13 DISPUTE RESOLUTION, APPENDIX A - FLOATING PRODUCTION UNITS – HISTORY, DESIGN, INSTALLATION AND OPERATION, APPENDIX B – FPSO case study, APPENDIX C – Legal glossary

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Book SynopsisAgrobiodiversity and agroecology go hand-in-hand in promoting environmental resilience in international food systems as well as climate change resilient food policy. This book contextualizes how various legal frameworks address agrobiodiversity and agroecology around the globe and makes it accessible for audiences of students, practitioners, educators, and scholars. Some chapters focus on the legal regulation of agroecology from a food law perspective. Others are geared toward providing regulators, lawmakers and attorneys with the scientific and policy background of those concepts, so that they are equipped in the field of food law in everyday practice and policy. Climate change dimensions of the issues are woven throughout the book. Table of Contents1 Local Agricultural Knowledge and Climate Change. 2 Agrobiodiversity, Agroecology and Private Law. 3 Rights-Based International Agroecological Law. 4 Regulatory Options for Food Waste Minimization. 5 Indigenous Peoples and Agrobiodiversity in Africa. 6 Inclusive Participation of Persons with Disabilities in Aspects of Agroecology and Agrobiodiversity. 7 The Special Case of Olives. 8 South Asian Perspectives of Food and Law in Agroecology and Agrobiodiversity. 9 Agrobiodiversity Loss and the Construction of Regulatory Frameworks for Crop Germplasm.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a socio-legal analysis of the public participation of children in climate change matters, whilst developing a range of tools through which their participation can be increased. Climate change affects young people in many ways: causing severe threats to child survival, health and wellbeing, food security and nutrition, and access to education. But this book maintains that children and youth are not to be identified solely with their vulnerability to climate change. They are also key stakeholders in the sustainable implementation of long-term climate change policies, and their inclusion in decision-making processes is a measure of intergenerational equity. Children's rights law is vague about the right to public participation or the environmental rights of children as such. In response, this book examines the often-informal network of pathways through which the public participation of children takes place: from high level conferences and governance structuresTable of Contents1. Climate Citizenship of Children - A Sociolegal Model 2. 'In All Matters That Affect Them': Children as Primary Stakeholders in Climate Change Governance 3. Empowered Spaces of Public Participation in the United Nations Climate Change Governance System: But Where Are The Children? 4. Citizenship in Action: Demanding Climate Justice Through Social Movement Activism 5. 'Bold and Courageous': Climate Change Litigation with Children

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Book SynopsisProducing enough food is a basic human priority and a critical challenge in the face of a growing population and the deteriorating ecological health of the planet. Modern agricultural practices promise to maximise the productive efficiency of available land but are one of the main drivers of agro- and biodiversity loss. Agroecology, which places ecological sustainability and diversity at the heart of agriculture, is one response to these challenges. It presents agriculture not only as the process through which food is produced but as a dynamic socioecological phenomenon that exists through networks comprising natural and human stakeholders at global, national and subnational levels. Drawing on a combination of agroecological and legal literature, this book explores where there is space in international law to pursue agroecology. Using a range of case studies, it demonstrates how concepts, mechanisms and regulatory approaches in the law advance, and can be reformed to further advance, an agroecological legal framework that allows humanity to meet its agricultural needs in a way that protects the natural and cultural diversity that is fundamental to the ecological integrity of the planet.

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Book SynopsisThis landmark book focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and on their role in struggles for the right to the city.Graffiti, pristine walls, advertising posters, and municipal signage all compete on city surfaces to establish and imprint their values on our environments. It is the first time that the surfacescapes of our cities are granted the entire attention of a book as material, visual, and legal territories. The book includes a critical history of graffiti and street art as contested surface discourses and argues for surfaces as sites of resistance against private property, neoliberal creativity, and the imposition of urban order. It also proposes a seven-point manual for a semiotics of urban surfaces, laying the ground for a new discipline: surface studies.Page after page and layer after layer, surfaces become porous and political and emerge as key spatial conditions for rethinking and re-practicing urban dwelling and spatial jusTrade Review“Sabina Andron invites us to surface – to come up for air or for light – in the ways that we think about cities. Andron’s beautifully nuanced account shows us that every surface is an archive bearing the history of its making, use, re-use, subversion or adaptation. In flipping our attention away from isolated signs, texts and images, Andron shows how spatial justice in the public city is a matter of surfaces.”Alison Young, The University of Melbourne, Australia“Andron not only provides a unique and revealing account of graffiti and street art, but instigates a whole new way of thinking about architecture and cities. By ‘interviewing’ walls as paint, signs and scripts, she reveals hidden depths of politics, justice, legislation, contestation and transgression. Anyone interested in the experience of the contemporary city should read this provocative and original book.”Iain Borden, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK“In this innovative study, Sabina Andron makes a persuasive case for the fundamental importance of what walls display to senses of publicness in cities. She beautifully evokes the visual richness and diversity of what vertical surfaces carry, as well as offering a distinctive semiotic methodology for interpreting the entangled images and texts visible on urban walls.”Gillian Rose, University of Oxford, UK“This is the book that most comprehensively engages our urban surfaces, their materials and inscriptions, drawing us as a public in motion nearer to a pluriversal we cannot do without, enabling us to experience cities in entirely new ways, beyond property and category. Surfacing a vital way for urban scholars from all disciplines to think together.”AbdouMaliq Simone, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: the city of surfaces 11 Surface semiotics: a manual for knowing surfaces 91. The places of discourse are fundamental to the production of meaning 102. Signification takes place in localised aggregates 143. Surfaces are thick and alive 204. Dirt is a crime 245. Order is white 296. Visibility generates value 337. Text makes space, and the city makes us literate 388. Surface betrayals and restitutions 429. Conclusion, or six proposals for the significance of signs and surfaces 4510. Wall interview 482 Beyond art and crime: a critical history of graffiti and street art 581. Wall writing is a time portal 592. Graffiti is only a name 633. Every tag is collectively authored 654. The writing is not on the wall 695. Fear is a self-fulfilling prophecy 726. Gallery walls redeem urban walls 787. Street art is a different name 828. The image is not on the wall 859. Authoritarianism comes in beautiful colours 9010. Urban creativity is a well-oiled machine 9611. Street art sold my city 101Conclusion, or six proposals against institutional appropriations 1053 Law and graffiti: property, crime, and the surface commons 1161. Law is everywhere; everywhere is law 1172. Surfaces complicate property regimes 1223. The right to the city is the right to the surface 1264. Writing on walls has a long history of regulation 1305. Graffiti offends against property and order 1336. Offence is an ambiguous affair 1387. The majority decides what is proper 1418. The argument against art 147Conclusion, or five proposals for a surface commons 1494 Leake Street London: legal walls and deep surfaces 1591. Ownership is tedious 1612. Street art is just the beginning 1633. Not all legal walls are created equal 1664. Graffiti knows no boundaries 1685. 100 Days of Leake Street is not enough 1726. Tagging is pro-social 1747. Eat drink shop graffiti 180Conclusion, or five proposals for learning from Leake Street 186Conclusion: cultural heritage and the right to the surface city 190The right to the city is the right to the surface: a manifesto 197Acknowledgements 199Index 201

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Book SynopsisThis title highlights the pertinent issue of climate change and its management using sustainable sources of finance. The book provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable development and its management using green finance, green energy, green transport, and green infrastructure, as well as the policies and innovations that can be implemented at both the micro and macro levels.Features: Covers theories, concepts, practices, regulations, case studies, and real-world applications related to sustainable finance. Introduces the concept of sustainable finance and climate risk management. Explains green finance, green infrastructure, green transport, and others to mitigate the climate risk. Provides a comprehensive view of various policies and innovations that can be done at micro and macro level to reduce carbon footprints. Reviews contemporary concept of climate-related disclosures and reporting by financial institutions. This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers and professionals in environmental sciences, sustainable finance, climate change and circular economy including policymakers.

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This book conducts an examination of the international legal regime of the continental shelf through the lens of international relations (IR), with a primary focus on global governance theory.Presenting a new perspective within the field of IR and international law, the book offers new insights into the rules, principles, practices, and actors that establish and govern social interactions and the management of common affairs at the transnational level. The governance framework within the continental shelf can encompass a wider scope than legal laws alone, incorporating informal rules or potentially disregarding formal âœblack letterâ rules that may not be effectively applied in practice. To exemplify how governance theory and other IR theories contribute to the analysis of the legal regime concerning the continental shelf, the book conducts an in-depth examination of three significant issues: (i) the demarcation and delimitation of the continental shelf, (ii) the rights and o

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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

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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

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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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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘In what may serve as a capstone to his distinguished career, Joan Martínez-Alier gives us both a monument to environmental justice scholarship and a practical guide to roughly 500 environmental justice campaigns over the last two centuries. Land, Water, Air and Freedom makes a strong case that one of the characteristics of our age is a worldwide environmental justice movement. It is gathering pace, but often in the shadows and out of plain sight, because it is most vigorous on the remote commodity frontiers of the industrial economy – where oil drilling, copper mining, or timber felling take place. This book makes clear both the most fundamental feature of the industrial economy – entropy – and the determination of grandmothers, sharecroppers, housewives, fisherfolk, mineworkers, and many others, to resist. It belongs on the shelf of everyone concerned with environmental justice, environmental politics, environmental sociology, environmental history, or the state of their planet.’ -- J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University, US‘With Land, Water, Air and Freedom Joan Martínez-Alier, one of the pioneers of ecological economics and political ecology, emerges with his team as the premier cartographer of environmental conflicts worldwide. This highly accomplished book is many things at once: a vivid account of a lifetime’s intellectual and political journey, a monumental compendium of ecological struggles, and an inspiring ontological reframing of the economy beyond growth, based on the pluriverse of modes of life and languages of valuation embodied in the incredible global ferment of popular praxes against industrial extraction. Other worlds and futures are possible – indeed, they are underway. This book is bound to become an indispensable resource for those committed to the profound socioecological transitions demanded from our troubling time.’ -- Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, US‘This book is the last door of a trilogy, as the author states, that opens a passage from the nearest to the remotest ecologies of the world transformed into commodity frontiers. It forcefully proves that environmental justice movements are at the same time movements for life and freedom. Joan Martínez-Alier's activism and solidarity-based work in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is to a large extent comparable to what Marx achieved in the second half of the 19th century. Both trace the transformations unfolded by the commodity form: Marx's trilogy built a socio-historical critique of political economy, revealed class conflict as a social distribution and valuation conflict, and recognized the class struggle for social justice. Martínez-Alier's trilogy has built an ecological critique of economics, revealed ecological distribution and valuation conflicts, and recognized the world-movements for environmental justice.’ -- Zehra Tasdemir Yasin, University of Ankara, Turkey‘Twenty years after the publication of the now classic The Environmentalism of the Poor, Joan Martínez-Alier, the most outstanding environmental justice scholar of our time has gifted humanity with a new book: Land, Water, Air and Freedom - The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice. With emphasis on the political force that aspires to bring social justice through environmental struggles, this tour de force is a product of many decades of Joan's deep commitment to environmental justice through the scholar-activist method of work.’ -- Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands‘Land, Water, Air and Freedom is a tour de force, deftly weaving together insights from decades of research on ecological distribution conflicts and the global environmental justice movement. Spanning an impressive range of regions and issues, Professor Martínez-Alier's inspiring research sheds light on the complex power relations and socio-ecological processes surrounding environmental justice struggles. This vital book challenges dominant economic paradigms, identifies alternative pathways toward wellbeing, sustainability, and justice, and offers important tools for activism.’ -- Alice Mah, University of Glasgow, UK‘Drawing on a treasure trove of cases from the acclaimed EJ Atlas, renowned ecological economist Joan Marti´nez-Alier has produced a breathtaking study of ecological distribution conflicts around the world. This book will fundamentally transform our thinking and actions concerning environmental justice in the 21st century.’ -- David N. Pellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction: comparative political ecology – the EJAtlas, geographical and thematic perspectives 2 Japan: toxic archipelago 3 The Philippines: extractivism and violence 4 Women environmental defenders killed around the world 5 Taiwan’s environmental movement 6 China: political ecology with Chinese characteristics – limits to eco-compensation (with Dr Juan Liu) 7 The Arctic, a growing commodity extraction frontier, with Ksenija Hanaček 8 India: Odisha, one of the states which are victims of “extractivism” 9 India: Kerala and Tamil Nadu 10 The world anti-nuclear movement since the 1970s 11 Biodiversity conservation: “militarized conservation” vs “convivial conservation” 12 East Africa: Kenya and Tanzania, wildlife and human livelihoods 13 South East Africa: Madagascar and Mozambique; transnationals and BINGOs 14 Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea: “we thought it was oil but it was blood” 15 Sand mining for metallic minerals: a new commodity frontier, with Arpita Bisht 16 Blockadia and climate justice: LFFU movements 17 The Andean countries and Southern Cone 18 Mesoamerica and the Caribbean: from Zacatecas to Neo Zapatismo 19 Brazil and the Guianas: iron ores, tailings dams and land conflicts 20 Working-class environmentalism 21 Agrarian justice and human ecology 22 Religious groups as environmental activists 23 The Iberian Peninsula: transboundary conflicts 24 The United States: the cradle of environmental justice against environmental racism 25 Indigenous revival and resistance around the world 26 Preciosities vs bulk commodities in ecologically unequal trade 27 Corporate social irresponsibility and systematic lack of environmental liability 28 Environmental activism, uncertain risks and post-normal science 29 Population and resources: feminism and neo-Malthusianism, with Eduard Masjuan 30 Conclusion: is there a global environmental justice movement? 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Book SynopsisTrade Review'Teaching and Learning in Environmental Law is a landmark contribution to environmental law scholarship as the first book to be devoted entirely to different teaching methodologies for environmental law. The editors and authors are leading names and recognized professors of environmental law. This book will quickly become an essential resource for environmental law scholars in all parts of the world and from all legal systems engaged in the teaching of environmental law.' -- Nilüfer Oral, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Member of the UN International Law Commission'This book represents a real breakthrough. It is the first to explore in depth how to overcome the daunting challenges of teaching environmental law. The field's rapid growth during the last half century has made it more important than ever, but also more difficult, to understand how law seeks to combat environmental problems. The book examines a rich variety of approaches to teaching environmental law through the experienced eyes of a multinational group of outstanding teachers and scholars. It offers fresh insights that will be of great value no matter how long one has been teaching in this field.' -- Robert Percival, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, US'Teaching and Learning in Environmental Law is a highly recommended book for all teachers of environmental law around the world. This edited collection contains carefully curated articles showing a wide range of teaching methodologies that could be applied in differing contexts. Considering the many challenges that frequently arise in teaching environmental law, this book reveals fresh perspectives and inspiring accounts which were gained from experience by the different contributors in the book. The book provides a compilation of narratives and lessons from tried-and-tested learning approaches that takes one inside and beyond the four walls of the classroom.For most teachers, competence in teaching is often honed by experience. This book, therefore, allows one to embark on a journey of self-reflection as one sifts through the information shared by each contributor. In the end, one emerges hopeful, inspired and ready to take on the challenges of teaching environmental law in a complex, fast-changing world. Indeed, many teachers of environmental law will greatly benefit from the treasure trove of teaching materials found in this book.Environmental law has become a widely recognized discipline in legal education today. It is, thus, vital for teachers of environmental law to teach and learn how to be effective teachers in environmental law. The Teaching and Learning in Environmental Law book can be an essential part of the teaching arsenal of every teacher of environmental law.' -- Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, University of Cebu School of Law, Philippines'In all modern societies, the protection of the environment lies mainly in the hands of public authorities, which grant permits, plan and realise infrastructure projects, fight - or do not fight - pollution, and deal with resource issues. This means that a great number of those who study environmental law will later occupy posts in transport, energy, local administrations or in economy. It is vital that they understand ecological concerns, environmental impairment and the need to integrate environmental issues into their day-to-day decisions.This book offers a wealth of new ideas for how to teach environmental law in a way that reaches the mind and at the same time the heart of students. The examples stem mainly from Anglo-Saxon countries, but offer enough flexible ways of teaching that they are of use to environmental teachers all over the world. And the examples are not limited to environmental law teaching and learning: indeed, as the protection of our planet is of general vital interest, any teacher may usefully adapt his teaching methods to examples that are given in the book, whether he teaches at a high school, a primary school, a university or in vocational courses. The whole book centers around the question of how to bring the message of the necessity to conserve this planet into the minds and hearts of the students.A very welcome and necessary book, which deserves - and needs! - many readers and is indispensable for any teacher of environmental policy, law, economy, or science.' -- Ludwig Krämer, Derecho y Medio Ambiente S.L., Spain

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘What is the future of environmental law? You might find answers, and at least insightful hints, from this wonderful literature. This book examines, based on analysis of previous experiences of environmental law, the possible challenges and innovative development of environmental law at international, regional and national levels. I believe the book could provide valuable insights to decision-makers and academia.’ -- Tianbao Qin, Wuhan University, China‘This important collection shows how environmental law has made many advances over the past decades, but that it does not adequately protect the planet yet. A wide range of excellent contributions covering many topics show a way forward towards more effective environmental law.’ -- Jonathan Verschuuren, Tilburg Law School, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to The Future of Environmental Law 1 Kars J. de Graaf and Stefan E. Weishaar PART I THE PROFOUND ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 2 Governing the ocean in the Anthropocene era: area-based management as a tool to promote the socialisation of the law of the sea 14 Vonintsoa Rafaly 3 An insufficient tool for sustainable development: limitations of systemic integration under Article 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 30 Kazuki Hagiwara 4 The role of principles of international environmental law in greening the interpretation of human rights: the case of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 49 Megan Donald PART II LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY 5 The legal dimension of sustainability 66 José Juan González Márquez 6 Sustainable management: political slogan or legal norm? 85 Trevor Daya-Winterbottom 7 In doubt when in favour of nature? Taking science seriously in the Anthropocene epoch 104 Mariana Coelho and Patryck Ayala 8 The principle of reparation: why the polluter-pays principle does not suffice and how to rebuild the law on environmental damage 121 Heloísa Oliveira PART III ENERGY 9 Renewables under the scrutiny of international investment law: the feed-in tariff 141 Monika Feigerlová 10 The proliferation of offshore renewable energy in European seas: the regulatory challenges of emerging technologies for EU environmental law 158 Nikolaos Giannopoulos 11 Environmental litigation before regional economic courts in Africa and Latin America 178 Sonja Kahl 12 The national green tribunal model to ensure environmental justice through collaboration 196 Masrur Salekin 13 People v Arctic Oil: Context, Judgment and Takeaways for Future Climate Litigation 215 Suryapratim Roy and Alexandru Gociu PART IV CASE STUDIES 14 A major future challenge for environmental law: salinization 236 Annalies Outhuijse, Tatia Brunings, and Ida Helene Groninga 15 Bringing nature back to agricultural land: bridging ambition and reality in agri-environmental governance 252 Edwin Alblas 16 Groundwater relevance for Brazilian semiarid development in the northeast: the need for protective environmental laws 271 Jose Irivaldo Alves Oliveira Silva Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘In their introduction, the authors state that “[h]elping individuals [ ... ] to develop climate change law literacy is the raison d'être of this book,” a goal they accomplish admirably. This relatively slim reader opens doors to deeper discovery and inquiry by providing a solid foundation and understanding of the extremely complex sets of legal, political, and economic dynamics involved in any effort to address the transnational and existential problems associated with an anthropogenically warming planet. Climate Change Law: An Introduction would make a great choice for a textbook for a climate change or environmental law seminar, and would also serve as a compact but highly informative resource for practitioners, policymakers, students, and others who wish to obtain a thorough grounding in the current state of climate change laws and policies.’BR> -- Jennifer E. Sekula, International Journal of Legal Information‘It is a challenge to write a textbook on climate change law because the field changes so rapidly. These authors have masterfully pulled together principles that serve as the backbone of the field while integrating recent case law and international agreements. The authors present foundational elements of mitigation, adaptation, energy, and human rights, and then help us recall the importance of private actors and the ethical challenges lawyers must face in this changing world.’ -- Jessica Owley, University of Miami School of Law, US‘This book could not be more timely – it is a comprehensive yet concise and accessible analysis of the multifaceted and complex area of climate change law. It is a rare combination of an analysis of international and U.S. law, mitigation and adaptation, state and non-state responsibilities, climate litigation, human rights, as well as individual, ethical considerations, demonstrating, in all of these areas, where the law stands today, as well as providing a glimpse as to where it is likely to evolve. A fantastic resource on climate change law!’ -- Lisa Benjamin, Lewis & Clark Law School, US‘Both lawyers and non-lawyers often ask me what to read for a concise introduction to the U.S. and international laws that are relevant to climate change. Now I have something to enthusiastically recommend. This book is a terrific primer on a complex and rapidly evolving area of law. It shows how courts, legislatures, and executives are addressing (or not) one of humanity's greatest challenges. Even experts will find it a useful refresher.’ -- Michael B. Gerrard, Columbia Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Climate Change Law 1. International Climate Change Treaty Regime 2. Climate Law Primer: Mitigation Approaches 3. Introduction to Energy Law 4. Adaption to Climate Change at the Subnational Level 5. Litigating Government (In)Action on Climate Change 6. Human Rights and Climate Change 7. Legal and Policy Levers to Prompt Action by Private Climate Change Actors 8. Introduction: Why the Individual Ethics of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Matters to Climate Law Index

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Book SynopsisTaxation and the Green Growth Challenge addresses the pressing issue of how economic growth can be compatible with the fight against climate change, while protecting the environment as much as possible. The book shows how decision-makers must account for the legal value of the environment as being of benefit to future generations.Trade Review‘Prof. Alberto Comelli and his team have produced an outstanding volume – covering taxation for the global challenge of green growth. Chapters written by a distinguished group of international scholars range from carbon pricing and carbon border adjustments, to green hydrogen, energy taxation reform, and controlling waste. Focusing on green growth, the chapters provide a thorough analysis of the challenges, existing and emerging solutions, and detailed recommendations for future work.’ -- Roberta Mann, University of Oregon School of Law, US‘The Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation is a yearly state of the art publication that reflects on the key issues currently occupying the minds of academics, government officials and policy makers in the field of environmental taxation. I would highly recommend it to any tax professional suffering from fear of missing out in relation to this rapidly developing but ever-so-relevant subject.’ -- Tatiana Falcao, Coordinator, Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action (CFMCA), World Bank‘This publication includes a range of interesting analyses giving valuable insights to the green growth topic. There are different ways to make the green train gain speed and the articles can give policy-makers well-reasoned input on suitable tools to apply in their national tool-boxes.’ -- Susanne Åkerfeldt, Senior Adviser, Swedish Ministry of Finance and Co-coordinator of the UN Subcommittee on Environmental Tax IssuesTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: Taxation and green growth – the role of carbon pricing xiii Alberto Majocchi PART I GREEN GROWTH CHALLENGE GENERAL ISSUES 1 Taxation for green growth: a mission-oriented approach 2 Rafaela Cristina Oliari and Carlos Araújo Leonetti 2 Multilevel inconsistencies in environmental taxation: some evidence from the Italian case 15 Andrea Zatti 3 The role of taxation in the ecological transition: the social and solidarity economy (SSE) perspective 35 Giulia Boletto PART II GREEN GROWTH, CARBON PRICING AND CBAM 4 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: potential and critical aspects 54 Olimpia Fontana 5 The Achilles heel of border carbon adjustments: unintended effects on developing countries 69 María Amparo Grau Ruiz PART III GREEN GROWTH, TAX INCENTIVES AND SUBSIDIES 6 Green hydrogen mitigates the EU’s energy dependence and leads to climate neutrality in 2050 85 María de los Angeles Diez Moreno 7 Climate-counterproductive subsidies in Austria – an economic and legal assessment of the status quo and reform options 100 Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig, Angela Köppl, Franz Sinabell, Reinhard Schanda, Martino Heher, Alexander Rimböck, Stella Müller, Thomas Voit and Sabine Kirchmayr PART IV GREEN GROWTH AND ENERGY TAXATION 8 Time for a windfall profit tax? Electricity market design in times of crises 114 Claudia Kettner, Michael Böheim and Margit Schratzenstaller 9 Impact of an energy taxation reform on Italian corporations: simulation results using the Istat-Matis.b model 131 Cristina Brandimarte and Antonella Caiumi 10 Negative externalities in the transport sector: European efforts to align transport prices with external costs through market-based instruments 145 Marina Bisogno PART V GREEN GROWTH, CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND TAX REFORMS 11 The new Spanish tax on waste within the framework of the European Union goals on the circular economy 160 Rodolfo Salassa Boix 12 Green tax reform in China: from pollution discharge fee system to environmental protection tax 171 Yanmin He and Jingfei Che PART VI GREEN GROWTH, TAXATION AND CASE STUDIES 13 The role of EU taxation for a more sustainable fashion industry 184 Cristina Trenta 14 The definition of waste for the purposes of its possible taxation: the Italian experience between European profiles and possible comparisons 199 Alessia Marano 15 Environmental taxation on oil and gas extraction in Senegal in the context of fiscal stabilization in oil and gas contracts 214 Jacqueline Cottrell and Marie Wettingfeldt Index 231

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents: Preface xi PART I THEORIES, CONCEPTS AND ACTORS OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND GOVERNANCE 1 Actors and law-making in international environmental law 2 Mark A. Drumbl and Kateřina Uhlířová 2 Participation of non-State actors and global civil society in international environmental law-making and governance 46 Otto Spijkers 3 Corporate responsibility for environmental harm 63 Markos Karavias 4 International framework for environmental decision-making 84 Geir Ulfstein 5 An introduction to ethical considerations in international environmental law 107 Alexander Gillespie PART II PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 6 Sustainable development 131 Duncan French 7 The principles of prevention and precaution in international law: two heads of the same coin? 152 Nicolas de Sadeleer 8 Environmental impact assessment 189 Olufemi Elias and Meagan Wong 9 Common but differentiated responsibilities 210 Philippe Cullet PART III DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AND COMPLIANCE 10 Settlement of international environmental law disputes 231 Natalie Klein and Danielle Kroon 11 Environmental disputes in the WTO 260 Joanna Gomula 12 Compliance procedures and mechanisms 294 Gerhard Loibl PART IV HUMAN RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE 13 International climate law 322 Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial 14 Human rights and the environment: substantive rights 345 Karen Morrow 15 Domestic climate litigation’s turn to human rights and international climate law 368 Marlies Hesselman 16 Environmental protection in armed conflict 394 Karen Hulme and Doug Weir PART V SELECTED ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGIMES 17 The relationship between the law of international watercourses and sustainable development 415 Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Virginie Barral 18 International chemicals and waste management 443 Katharina Kummer Peiry 19 Environmental protection in the Antarctic and the Arctic: the role of international law 461 Kees Bastmeijer and Rachael Lorna Johnstone Index

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