Environmental law Books

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

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Book 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

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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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

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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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Book SynopsisThis important new text introduces conservation criminology as the interdisciplinary study of environmental exploitation and risks at the intersection of human and natural systems.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors xiii Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxiii 1 Global Risks, Conservation, and Criminology 1Meredith L. Gore 1.1 Conservation Crimes Are a Global Problem 1 1.2 Three Foundational Fields of Conservation Criminology 4 1.3 Foundation 1: Natural Resource Management and Policy 4 1.3.1 Different Values Underlie Natural Resource Management and Conservation 4 1.3.2 The Precautionary Principle and Prevention 6 1.3.3 Community–Based Conservation 6 1.3.4 Protected Areas 7 1.4 Foundation 2: Criminology, Crime Science, and Criminal Justice 8 1.4.1 Opportunity Structures of Crime 9 1.4.2 Crime Prevention 10 1.4.3 Criminological Typologies 11 1.5 Foundation 3: Risk and Decision Science 11 1.5.1 Risk Assessment and Perception 13 1.5.2 Risk Communication 14 1.5.3 Risk Governance 14 1.6 Combining the Three Foundations: Conservation Criminology 15 1.6.1 Strengths 16 1.6.2 Shortcomings 16 1.7 How to “Do” Conservation Criminology 17 1.8 Roadmap 18 References 20 Part I Conceptual Advancements in Conservation Criminology 2 Conservation Crime Science 27Jessica S. Kahler and Meredith L. Gore 2.1 Exploitation of Natural Resources in a Globalized World 27 2.2 The Limits of Criminology for Conservation Practice 28 2.3 Overcoming the Limits of Criminology with Crime Science 30 2.4 State of Knowledge: Conservation Criminology and Conservation Crime Science 31 2.4.1 Describing the Literature 32 2.5 Limitations 36 2.6 Utility of Using Conservation Crime Science 37 2.7 Setting Expectations for Conservation Crime Science 38 2.8 Conclusion 39 References 41 3 Deterrence, Legitimacy, and Wildlife Crime in Protected Areas 45William D. Moreto and Jacinta M. Gau 3.1 Wildlife Crime in Protected Areas 46 3.2 Criminological and Criminal Justice Perspectives on Deterrence 46 3.2.1 Theoretical Foundations 46 3.3 Empirical Findings 48 3.4 Limitations with Deterrence–based Approaches in Protected Areas 48 3.5 Legitimacy and Its Role in Establishing Normative and Instrumental Forms of Compliance in Conservation 51 3.6 Alternatives to Deterrence–Based Approaches 52 3.6.1 Enhancing Legitimacy 52 3.7 Future Considerations 53 References 54 Part II Case Studies and Examples 4 Governance for Conservation Risks and Crime 61Mark A. Axelrod, Austin Flowers, Katherine Groff, and Julia Novak Colwell 4.1 Defining Governance 61 4.2 General Concepts of Governance for Conservation Risks 62 4.3 Strict Enforcement by Official Authorities and Governments 63 4.4 International Movement of Electronic Waste 63 4.5 Regulatory Efforts to Limit E–waste Trade 65 4.6 People–Centered Approaches Focused Local Livelihoods 67 4.7 Limits to Enforcement Actions in Chiquibul National Park, Belize 68 4.8 Limits of Alternative Livelihood Strategies 68 4.9 Unintended Effects and Collateral Impacts of Conservation Governance 69 4.10 Conclusion 71 References 71 5 Gaining Compliance and Cooperation with Regulated Wildlife Harvest 77Brent A. Rudolph and Shawn J. Riley 5.1 Importance of Compliance and Cooperation 78 5.2 What Drives Violations of Natural Resource Regulations? 80 5.3 Unintentional Violations 81 5.4 Intentional Violations 81 5.5 Violations Motivated by Direct Personal Gains 82 5.6 Violations Motivated by Indirect Personal Gains 83 5.7 Violations and Instrumental Judgments of Government Policy and Regulators 84 5.8 Violations and Normative Influence 85 5.9 What Drives Cooperation? 86 5.10 Considerations for Increasing Compliance and Cooperation 87 5.10.1 Applying Regulations to Influence Compliance 88 5.10.2 Applying Economic Instruments to Influence Compliance and Cooperation 89 5.10.3 Applying Communication to Influence Compliance and Cooperation 90 5.10.4 Communication to Influence Instrumental Judgments 90 5.10.5 Communication to Influence Behavior Through Norms 91 5.10.6 Communication to Influence Procedural Justice 91 5.11 Conclusion 92 References 92 6 Corruption and Organized Crime in Conservation 97Aksel Sundström and Tanya Wyatt 6.1 Connecting Corruption and Organized Crime to Conservation 99 6.1.1 Defining Corruption and Organized Crime 99 6.1.2 The Role and Extent of Corruption and Organized Crime in Conservation Crime 100 6.1.3 Why do Environmental Black Markets Exist? 102 6.2 Case Study on Abalone Poaching 102 6.2.1 The Context of Bureaucratic Corruption and Presence of Criminal Groups 102 6.2.2 The Investigation 104 6.2.3 Non–Corrupt Inspectors are Threatened 104 6.3 Case Study on Illegal Trade in Russian Raptors 105 6.4 A Policy–Oriented Discussion of Solutions 107 6.4.1 Supporting Non–Corrupt Officials That Receive Threats 107 6.4.2 Complement Merit–Based Reforms with External Monitoring Mechanisms 107 6.4.3 Public Awareness Campaigns May Help Decrease Demand for Illicit Goods 108 6.4.4 A Cooperative Network Approach to Combating Organized Crime 109 6.5 Conclusion 109 References 110 7 Problem–Oriented Policing for Natural Resource Conservation 115Mark C. G. Gibson 7.1 What is Problem–Oriented Policing? 115 7.2 The Opportunity for POP in Natural Resource Management 119 7.3 A Case Study of Australian Commonwealth Fisheries Management 120 7.3.1 The Australian Fisheries Management Authority 120 7.3.2 Scanning 123 7.3.3 Analysis 124 7.3.4 Response 125 7.3.5 Assessment 126 7.4 Adapting POP for More Effective Conservation 127 7.5 Conclusion 129 References 129 8 Exploring the Sociology of Wildlife Tourism, Global Risks, and Crime 133Jessica Bell Rizzolo 8.1 Wildlife Tourism 134 8.1.1 Types of Wildlife Tourism 134 8.1.2 Benefits of Wildlife Tourism Link Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihood Preservation 134 8.1.3 Risks Associated with Wildlife Tourism 135 8.2 Conservation Criminology and Wildlife Tourism 136 8.2.1 Natural Resources Management and Conservation Biology 137 8.2.2 Risk and Decision Science 137 8.2.3 Criminology 138 8.3 Theoretical Insights on Wildlife Tourism from Sociology 139 8.3.1 Wildlife Tourism and Power 139 8.3.2 Authenticity as a Sociological Aspect of Tourism 141 8.4 Elephant Tourism and Crime in Thailand 144 8.4.1 Elephant Tourism in Thailand 144 8.4.2 Wild Live Elephant Trafficking 144 8.4.3 Illegal Ivory Trade 145 8.4.4 Animal Welfare 145 8.4.5 Elephant Tourism and Crime: Insights From Conservation Criminology and Sociological Theory 148 8.5 Conclusion 150 References 151 Part III Models and Innovations 9 Technological Innovations Supporting Wildlife Crime Detection, Deterrence, and Enforcement 157Heidi Kretser, Emma Stokes, Serge Wich, David Foran, and Alexa Montefiore 9.1 Challenges for Wildlife Crime Detection and Enforcement 158 9.2 Technological Advances in Conservation 160 9.3 Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) 161 9.3.1 Limitations of SMART Technology and Opportunities for Future Improvements 163 9.4 Conservation Drones 164 9.4.1 Limitations of Drone Technology and Opportunities for Future Improvements 166 9.5 Mobile Device Applications 167 9.5.1 Limitations of Mobile App Technology and Opportunities for Future Improvements 168 9.6 Conservation Forensics 171 9.6.1 Limitations of Forensic Technology and Opportunities for Future Improvements 173 9.7 Conclusion 174 References 175 10 PAWS: Game Theory Based Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security 179Fei Fang, Benjamin Ford, Rong Yang, Milind Tambe, and Andrew M. Lemieux 10.1 Applying Game Theoretic Analysis to Poaching 180 10.2 Modeling Human Behavior to Create Optimal Patrol Strategies 181 10.3 Domain Feature Modeling 181 10.4 The Genesis of PAWS from Synthesizing Conservation, Computer Science, and Criminology 182 10.4.1 Describing the Poaching Domain to Create Patrols that Prevent Poaching 184 10.5 The PAWS Model 185 10.5.1 The Basis of Game–Theoretic Analysis in PAWS 186 10.5.2 Modeling Human Behavior for PAWS 188 10.5.3 Incorporating Learning into the Behavioral Model 189 10.6 PAWS–Learn 189 10.6.1 Domain Feature Modeling 190 10.7 Discussion 192 References 193 11 Estimating Poaching Opportunity and Potential 197Adrian Treves, Christine Browne-Nuñez, Jamie Hogberg, Jens Karlsson Frank, Lisa Naughton-Treves, Nicole Rust, and Zachary Voyles 11.1 Understanding Attitudes and Behaviors of Realized and Potential Poachers 198 11.2 Social Psychological Approaches for Understanding the Potential to Poach 200 11.3 Case Study on Wolf Poaching 200 11.3.1 Theoretical Approach and Sampling 200 11.3.2 Methods 203 11.3.3 Study Site 203 11.3.4 Study Respondents 204 11.3.5 Survey Items 204 11.3.6 Inclination to Poach 205 11.3.7 Modeling Potential to Poach 205 11.4 Results 206 11.4.1 Potential to Poach 206 11.4.2 Effects on Wolf Population 207 11.4.3 Implications for Theory and Practice 207 11.4.4 Deer Hunters 208 11.4.5 Complainant Sample 209 11.5 Theoretical Considerations on the Causes of Poaching 210 References 212 Index 217

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Book SynopsisDespite bringing prosperity, industrialisation generally leads to increasing levels of pollution which has a detrimental impact on the environment. In response, legislation which seeks to control or prevent such impact has become common.Trade Review"The fact that this book is not simply aimed at legal experts in no way detracts from the value of its contents, since the authors are all profoundly knowledgeable about the topics in question. An added benefit is that, notwithstanding the complex topic of the study, it is easy to read and highly educational, especially to non-legal specialists, and provides a strong blend of depth and simplicity. This book accordingly merits praise not only for its design, aim and objectives, but also, and in equal measure, for its form and content." Montserrat Abad Castelos, University Carlos III of Madrid, Review of European Community & International Environmental Law, 25 (1) 2016 "By delivering an extensive volume with a convincing structure and an intelligent system of cross-referencing throughout every one of its parts, Environmental and Energy Law manages to remain in a comfortable middle-ground between the legal abstraction of general principles and the details of regulations on technical standards. And this middle ground is precisely what allows the volume to be an interesting option for engineers, economists and even entrepreneurs apart from being a comprehensive source of information for legal scholars and an enjoyable textbook for students (of law or broader environmental studies alike) with exercises and case studies.� �The introductory intention � that stressed that lawyers would be invited to learn about engineering and scientific developments, preparing themselves for regulatory challenges of the future, is well kept: I could say that as an international lawyer, this volume indeed helped me to have a more accurate glimpse as to the links between environmental law and engineering and science. Indeed, after reaching the last page of this volume, I can affirm that Karen E. Makuch and Ricardo Pereira�s Environmental and Energy Law manages to demonstrate, with immediate and actual examples, that policy and regulation can act as major innovation-driving forces, a conclusion that is so important for engineers and investors as it is for all lawyers and students of law.� Nelson F. Coelho, Utrecht University, European Energy and Environmental Law Review, October 2015Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors ix Preface xv List of Abbreviations xvii Part One Introduction 1 1 Introduction 3 Karen E. Makuch and Ricardo Pereira Questions and activities 32 Part Two Innovation, Sustainability and the Law 35 2 Sustainable Development and Best Available Techniques in International and European Law 37 Panos Merkouris 3 Environmental Regulation, Business Competitiveness and Corporate Responsibility 61 Ricardo Pereira 4 A Legal Framework for Clean Technology Transfer and Finance 75 Helena Wright and Ricardo Pereira 5 Technology Innovation and the Law – the Example of Climate Adaptation Technologies 92 Katrin Glatzel, Helena Wright, and Zen Makuch Questions and activities 115 Part Three Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Law 117 6 Sustainable Energy Law and Policy 119 Matthew Leach and Sandip Deshmukh 7 International and EU Climate Change Law 141 Ricardo Pereira and Charlotte Jourdain 8 UK Climate Change Law and Policy 172 Karen E. Makuch, Zen Makuch, Ricardo Pereira, and Charlotte Jourdain Questions and activities 193 Part Four Exploration and Exploitation Of Energy Resources 197 9 The Exploration and Exploitation of Energy Resources in International Law 199 Ricardo Pereira 10 Occupational Health and Safety Law: the Oil and Gas Industry 225 John Paterson 11 Energy Agreements – Force Majeure and Hardship Clauses 240 Isabelle Fellrath and Frank Spoorenberg Questions and activities 253 Part Five Clean Technologies And The Clean Development Mechanism 255 12 Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies – An Overview and Some Key Issues 257 Tim Cockerill 13 Carbon Capture and Storage Liability 270 Zen A. Makuch, Slavina Z. Georgieva and Behdeen Oraee-Mirzamani 14 The Clean Development Mechanism – Legal and Contractual Framework in CDM Renewable Energy Projects 288 Kenneth Aidelojie, Chuan Tze-Teo, Zen Makuch and Ricardo Pereira Questions and activities 311 Part Six Waste, Water, Air Quality Management And Pollution Control 313 15 Solid Waste Management and Regulation 315 Arturo Castillo-Castillo 16 Water Management and Regulation 347 Dieudonne-Guy Ohandja and Alexandra Collins 17 Integrated Pollution and Control – the Industrial Emissions Directive 368 Iain MacLean 18 The Law and Practice of Air Quality Management 393 Zen Makuch and Marilena Karyampa 19 Contaminated Land and Regulation 418 Owen Lewis Questions and activities 434 Part Seven The Regulation Of Chemicals And Laboratory Safety 437 20 The Regulation of Nanotechnologies 439 Sekai Ngarize, Karen E. Makuch and Ricardo Pereira 21 Environmental Law Standards and Principles of Good Laboratory Practice for Environmental Protection 465 Elizabeth Prichard and Karen E. Makuch Questions and activities 487 Part Eight Governance, Impact Assessment, Compliance And Enforcement in Environmental Law 489 22 Planning, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) 491 Martin Birt and Steven Smith 23 Regulating Environmental Information and Environmental Data 508 Karen E. Makuch 24 Corporate Disclosure and Environmental Sustainability in Comparative Law 534 Nikzad Oraee-Mirzamani and Zen Makuch 25 Compliance and Enforcement in International, European and National Environmental Law 561 Ricardo Pereira Questions and activities 577 Part Nine Case Studies On Environmental Law Implementation 579 26 Case Studies 581 Karen E. Makuch Questions and activities 590 Index 591

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Book SynopsisThe editors and contributors to Wildlife Crime examine topical issues from extinction to trafficking in order to understand the ecological, economic, political, and social costs and consequences of these crimes. Drawing from diverse theoretical perspectives, empirical and methodological developments, and on-the-ground experiences of practitioners, this comprehensive volume looks at how conservationists and law enforcement grapple with and combat environmental crimes and the profitable market for illegal trade.Chapters cover criminological perspectives on species poaching, unregulated fishing, the trading of ivory and rhino horns, the adoption of conservation technologies, and ranger workplaces and conditions. The book includes firsthand experiences and research from China, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States. The result is a significant book about the causes of and response to wildlife crime.Contributors include: Johan Berg

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Book SynopsisThe editors and contributors to Wildlife Crime examine topical issues from extinction to trafficking in order to understand the ecological, economic, political, and social costs and consequences of these crimes. Drawing from diverse theoretical perspectives, empirical and methodological developments, and on-the-ground experiences of practitioners, this comprehensive volume looks at how conservationists and law enforcement grapple with and combat environmental crimes and the profitable market for illegal trade.Chapters cover criminological perspectives on species poaching, unregulated fishing, the trading of ivory and rhino horns, the adoption of conservation technologies, and ranger workplaces and conditions. The book includes firsthand experiences and research from China, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States. The result is a significant book about the causes of and response to wildlife crime.Contributors include: Johan Berg

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Book SynopsisProviding new research and thinking about cities, their governance and planning reform, this book compares the UK with multiple international examples in order to examine cutting-edge experimentation and innovation in new models of governance and urban policy in response to today's increasing global social and environmental challenges.Trade Review“This book is a very helpful guide and resource to both the past and future devolution agenda.” Local Government StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Planning reform and state spatial rescaling Devolution: A patchwork quilt of planning reform Replacing the regions: The evolution of English subnational reform City regions and the cities within them: Connecting two overlapping scales Local authorities: Powerhouses or scapegoats? Community-led governance: Opportunities and constraints Conclusion: Rescaling urban governance

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Book SynopsisPerspectives from worldwide experts on how major cities across the globe are responding to the major environmental threats of our time, including global climate change Over half of the world's population now lives in cities, and this share is expected to increase in the coming decades. With growing urbanization, cities and their residents face substantial environmental challenges such as higher temperatures, droughts, wildfires, and increased flooding. In response to these pressing challenges, some cities have begun to develop local environmental regulations that supplement national and environmental laws. In so doing, cities have stepped into a role that has been historically dominated by higher levels of government. Global Sustainable Cities takes stock of the policies that have been implemented by cities around the world in recent years in several key areas: water, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation. It examines the advantagesand potential drawbacksof Trade Review"An impressive volume whose international focus allows for cutting-edge comparative assessment in regards to the role of cities in addressing today’s environmental challenges. Global Sustainable Cities will contribute significantly to the literature on the role of major cities as they work to advance sustainability through innovative transportation, infrastructure, and energy initiatives." -- Vanessa Casado Pérez, Texas A&M University"Global Sustainable Cities features a phenomenal lineup of contributors whose topics, narrative arc, and implications create a readable, highly compelling volume. Taken altogether, the revealing case studies highlighted in these essays convincingly make the case for the centrality of cities to environmental law." -- Nestor Davidson, Faculty Director, Urban Law Center, Fordham University"An important volume that fills a gap in the literature on cities and climate change. While many have argued that cities are and should be significant actors in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and averting the worst impacts of climate disasters, this book illustrates how different kinds of cities are doing so. The book is also important for its comparative examination of cities' environmental and climate actions across geographic regions and political systems. Any future assessment of cities' roles in maintaining environmental quality and addressing climate change should begin with this impressive volume." -- Sheila R. Foster, Georgetown University, author of Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities"This important, timely and interesting book explores the current landscape of environmental leadership - examining both their strengths and weaknesses. It provides ample support for the important idea that it is in cities that we can act rapidly to address climate change and its consequences - because we must." -- David Miller, former Mayor of Toronto and author of Solved: How the Great Cities of the World Are Fixing the Climate Crisis

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Book SynopsisPerspectives from worldwide experts on how major cities across the globe are responding to the major environmental threats of our time, including global climate change Over half of the world's population now lives in cities, and this share is expected to increase in the coming decades. With growing urbanization, cities and their residents face substantial environmental challenges such as higher temperatures, droughts, wildfires, and increased flooding. In response to these pressing challenges, some cities have begun to develop local environmental regulations that supplement national and environmental laws. In so doing, cities have stepped into a role that has been historically dominated by higher levels of government. Global Sustainable Cities takes stock of the policies that have been implemented by cities around the world in recent years in several key areas: water, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation. It examines the advantagesand potential drawbacksof Trade Review"An impressive volume whose international focus allows for cutting-edge comparative assessment in regards to the role of cities in addressing today’s environmental challenges. Global Sustainable Cities will contribute significantly to the literature on the role of major cities as they work to advance sustainability through innovative transportation, infrastructure, and energy initiatives." -- Vanessa Casado Pérez, Texas A&M University"Global Sustainable Cities features a phenomenal lineup of contributors whose topics, narrative arc, and implications create a readable, highly compelling volume. Taken altogether, the revealing case studies highlighted in these essays convincingly make the case for the centrality of cities to environmental law." -- Nestor Davidson, Faculty Director, Urban Law Center, Fordham University"An important volume that fills a gap in the literature on cities and climate change. While many have argued that cities are and should be significant actors in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and averting the worst impacts of climate disasters, this book illustrates how different kinds of cities are doing so. The book is also important for its comparative examination of cities' environmental and climate actions across geographic regions and political systems. Any future assessment of cities' roles in maintaining environmental quality and addressing climate change should begin with this impressive volume." -- Sheila R. Foster, Georgetown University, author of Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities"This important, timely and interesting book explores the current landscape of environmental leadership - examining both their strengths and weaknesses. It provides ample support for the important idea that it is in cities that we can act rapidly to address climate change and its consequences - because we must." -- David Miller, former Mayor of Toronto and author of Solved: How the Great Cities of the World Are Fixing the Climate Crisis

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Book SynopsisWinner, American Sociological Association Section on Environment and Technology Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication AwardThe world currently faces several severe social and environmental crises, including economic under-development, widespread poverty and hunger, lack of safe drinking water for one-sixth of the world's population, deforestation, rapidly increasing levels of pollution and waste, dramatic declines in soil fertility and biodiversity, and global warming. Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment sheds light on the structural causes of these and other social and environmental crises, highlighting in particular the key role that elite-controlled organizations, institutions, and networks play in creating these crises. Liam Downey focuses on four topicsglobalization, agriculture, mining, and U.S. energy and military policyto show how organizational and institutional inequality and elite-controlled organizational networks produce environmental degradation aTrade Review"Downey presents important perspectives about inequality, militarism, and democracy. This important addition to the environment sociology literature should promote serious consideration of the macrostructuralist approach to social problems in general." * CHOICE *"It is very well written. More importantly, it illuminates the centrality of elite-controlled mechanisms." * Political Science Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisA critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another. How do social justice and sustainability connect? What does sustainability mean and, most importantly, how can we achieve it with justice? This volume tackles these questions, placing social justice and interdisciplinary approaches at the center of efforts for a more sustainable world. Contributors present empirical case studies that illustrate how sustainability can take place without contributing to social inequality. From indigenous land rights, climate conflict, militarization and urban drought resilience, the book offers examples of ways in which sustainability and social justice strengthen one another. Through an understanding of history, diverse cultural traditions, and complexity in reTrade ReviewSzes concept of & situated sustainability draws on environmental justice and the environmental humanities to offer a new way of thinking about sustainability that is both more flexible and more rigorous than previous conceptions. Specifically, this book both argues for and demonstrates a far more comprehensive and unanticipated way of thinking about sustainability in an era of environmental crisis. -- Laura Pulido,author of Environmentalism and Economic Justice and Black, Brown, Yellow and Left

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Book SynopsisA critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another. How do social justice and sustainability connect? What does sustainability mean and, most importantly, how can we achieve it with justice? This volume tackles these questions, placing social justice and interdisciplinary approaches at the center of efforts for a more sustainable world. Contributors present empirical case studies that illustrate how sustainability can take place without contributing to social inequality. From indigenous land rights, climate conflict, militarization and urban drought resilience, the book offers examples of ways in which sustainability and social justice strengthen one another. Through an understanding of history, diverse cultural traditions, and complexity in reTrade ReviewSzes concept of & situated sustainability draws on environmental justice and the environmental humanities to offer a new way of thinking about sustainability that is both more flexible and more rigorous than previous conceptions. Specifically, this book both argues for and demonstrates a far more comprehensive and unanticipated way of thinking about sustainability in an era of environmental crisis. -- Laura Pulido,author of Environmentalism and Economic Justice and Black, Brown, Yellow and Left

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to overcome the disconnect between human and ecological concerns in political theory and political philosophy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Towards a Relational Ethics with Nature 1. Bound by Reasonableness 2. Vulnerability and the Need for Care 3. To Think and Act Ecologically: The Environment, Human Animality, Nature 4. What Vulnerability Entails: Sustainability and the Limits of Political Pluralism 5. Nature’s Relations: Ontology, Vulnerability, Agency 6. The Democracy of the Neglected: Mutual Understanding and Sustainability in a World of Many Worlds Conclusion: Retrieving Nature Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCanada has over-promised and under-delivered on climate change, setting weak goals and allowing carve-outs, exceptions, and exemptions to undermine its climate policies. Why, in an era when climate change is front of mind for so many people, have we failed to make progress? This question has been the source of heated debate across the political spectrum. In Picking Up the Slack, Andrew Green draws together different perspectives on the challenge facing Canada to offer an accessible account of the ideas and institutions that have impeded climate change action. Picking Up the Slack embraces the complexity of the problem, showing that its sources lie deep in Canada’s institutional arrangements pointing to the role played by federal-provincial power sharing arrangements, the heavy reliance on discretion in Canadian law, the role of the courts, and the impact of social norms. Working from a broad perspective that incorporates the insights of economics, law, pTable of ContentsPreface 1. Of Fear and Loathing in Canadian Climate Policy 2. Cows, Cod, and Coal: The Roots of Canada’s Climate Dilemma 3. Discretion I: Picking the Wrong Tools 4. Discretion II: Helping Everyone Helps No One 5. Diffusion: When Everyone’s Responsible, No One’s Responsible 6. Deference: Where Are the Guardians? 7. Focus on People 8. Strengthen the National Community 9. Cultivate Cooperation 10. Foster Trust 11. Set the Foundation 12. Breaking the Cycle

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Book SynopsisA Few Acres of Ice is an in-depth study of France''s complex relationship with the Antarctic, from the search for Terra Australis by French navigators in the sixteenth century to France''s role today as one of seven states laying claim to part of the white continent. Janet Martin-Nielsen focuses on environment, sovereignty, and science to reveal not only the political, commercial, and religious challenges of exploration but also the interaction between environmental concerns in polar regions and the geopolitical realities of the twenty-first century.Martin-Nielsen details how France has worked (and at times not worked) to perform sovereignty in Terre Adélie, from the territory''s integration into France''s colonial empire to France''s integral role in making the environment matter in Antarctic politics. As a result, A Few Acres of Ice sheds light on how Terre Adeìlie has altered human perceptions and been constructed by human agency since (and evenTable of ContentsIntroduction: The French Antarctic 1. "All That Is Required Is to Discover It" 2. An Unexpected Territory 3. Apathy and Neglect 4. Formalizing Sovereignty 5. Science and Presence 6. Growing Maturity 7. Crisis and Choices 8. Environmental Authority 9. An Uncertain Future Epilogue: An Antarctic Power Malgré Soi

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Book SynopsisHow extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires, and accelerating global climate change. Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences. Darian-Smith looks deeply into each of these three cases of catastrophic wildfires and finds key similarities in all of them. As political leaders and big business work together in the pursuit of profits and power, anti-environmentalism has become an essential political tool enabling the rise of extreme right governments and energizing their populist supporters. These are the governments that deny climate science, reject environmental protection laws, and foster exclusionary worldviews that exacerbate climate injustice. The fires in Australia, Brazil and the United States demand acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality that undergird them, connecting the political erosion of liberal democracy with the corrosion of the environment. Darian-Smith argues that these wildfires are closely linked through capitalism, colonialism, industrialization, and resource extraction. In thinking through wildfires as environmental and political phenomenon, Global Burning challenges readers to confront the interlocking powers that are ensuring our future ecological collapse.Trade Review"Global Burning is as powerful as it is succinct. Eve Darian-Smith writes with urgent clarity and conceptual richness as she grapples with some of the most pressing issues of our times. Global Burning is a very teachable book—truly interdisciplinary and international in reach."—Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor"In a daring move that combines the familiar and the unexpected, Eve Darian-Smith adds anti-environmentalism as a distinctive dimension to our understanding of the global rise of extreme far-right governments. Anti-environmentalism assumes a whole range of new meanings in this book –including willful denials of what we know will be disastrous effects."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University"Global Burning is a brilliant analysis of how a range of anti-democratic trends can be viewed through the lens of catastrophic wildfires across the globe. If you want to understand how to analyze and become involved in a politics of collective resistance aimed at saving both the planet and democracy itself, this is the book to read."—Henry Giroux, author of Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis"As this clearly-argued book makes evident: too much of our politics has aided the forces heating our atmosphere and drying out our forests. It's time to stop." —Bill McKibben, author Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?"This is a book I want my students to read, this is a book my friends and family will read. Simultaneously devastating and hopeful, it repositions the significance of Indigenous ecological knowledge as a key source for worldwide wellbeing." —Jane McMillan, former Canadian Research Chair of Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities"The threat of extinction is real and immediate, but Eve Darian-Smith rightfully warns that it cannot be effectively thwarted unless we link the fight for environmental survival with the struggles against global, class, racial, and gender inequalities. A persuasive, solidly documented work." —Walden Bello, co-founder of Focus on the Global South and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award"In Global Burning, Darian-Smith attempts to assemble a big-picture puzzle from a disparate set of pieces... [B]y the end of the book attentive readers may well have seen enough to have their political views altered. Things that didn't seem to be connected before will feel linked by more than daily news coincidences."—Michael Svoboda, Yale Climate Connections"In Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis, Eve Darian-Smithconnects wildfires to the broader economic, social and political issues underlying climate change, exploring how they have become important signifiers of an unfolding global calamity. This is a timely and thought-provoking book that shows that there will be no magic solution to our current predicament until we collectively embrace a fundamental rethinking of human-nature relations and life beyond capitalism." –Dr. Sibo Chen, LSE Review of Books"Global Burning is an accessible and deftly weaved portrayal of the dire situation humanity and all forms of life on earth are facing. It is also a book consumed without sugarcoating... Yet, Darian-Smith never resorts to fatalism. Rather, it is an urgent reality check and call to action." –Jeffrey Bachman, The Developing Economies"Darian-Smith invites the reader to consider wildfires as the catalyst for political disruption and as the end result of parallel political movements and themes that are occurring globally."—Derek Moscato, H-EnvironmentTable of Contents1. Fire as Omen: Introduction 2. Fire as Profit: Global Corporations Rule 3. Fire as Weapon: Rising Global Authoritarianism 4. Fire as Death: Violent Environmental Racism 5. Fire as Disruption: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In recent years, climate litigation has become an important subject of global scholarly and policy interest. However, developments within the Global South, particularly in Africa, have been largely neglected. This volume brings together an international team of contributors to provide a much-needed examination of climate litigation in Africa. The book outlines how climate litigation in Africa is distinct as well as pinpointing where it connects with the global conversation. Chapters engage with crucial themes such as human rights approaches to climate governance, corporate liability and the role of gender in climate litigation. Spanning a range of approaches and jurisdictions, the book challenges universal concepts around climate and the role of activism (including litigation) in seeking to advance climate governance.Table of Contents1. Africa, Climate Justice and the Role of the Courts – Kim Bouwer, Uzuazo Etemire, Tracy-Lynn Field and Ademola Oluborode Jegede Part 1: Legal Tools, Opportunities and Barriers 2. Towards a Risk-Thematic Approach for African Climate Litigation - Tracy-Lynn Field 3. State Duty to ‘Protect’ Rights and Legal Obstacles to Climate Litigation – Ademola Oluborode Jegede 4. Litigation against Coal-fired Power in South Africa: Lessons from and for global Climate Litigation to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions – Nicole Loser 5. Climate Change Litigation in Civil Law African Countries: An Assessment of Barriers and Potentialities in Cameroon - Daniel Armel Owona Mbarga Part 2: Rights-Based Approaches 6. The Prospects and Challenges of Litigating Climate Change Before the African Regional Human Rights Bodies - Elsabe Boshoff 7. Climate Change Displacement Litigation in Africa: A Human Rights and Refugee Law-Based Approach – Judge John Mativo 8. The Vulnerability of African Indigenous Peoples Meteorological Knowledge in the Climate Change Debate – Fiona Batt 9. Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation against Private Actors – Pia Rebelo 10. Different Roads to the Same Destination: Climate Change Litigation in South Africa and the Netherlands and the Role of Human Rights in the Mitigation of Climate Change – Sanita van Wyk Part 3: Justice, Equity and Activism 11. Climate Change and Multinationals in Nigeria: A Case for Climate Justice - Eghosa O. Ekhator 12. Law and Climate Change in North African Countries: Morocco as a Case Study - Riyad Fakhri and Youness Lazrak Hassouni 13. Climate Litigation in South Africa and Nigeria: Legal Opportunities and Gender Perspectives - Pedi Obani 14. Future citizens: Intergenerational Equity in Climate Activism - Bright Nkrumah

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative and unparalleled examination of the policy and legal battles that will shape the future of our nation'swater.

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Book SynopsisCourts, regulatory tribunals, and international bodies are often seen as a last line of defense for environmental protection. Governmental bodies at the national and provincial level enact and enforce environmental law, and their decisions and actions are the focus of public attention and debate. Court and tribunal decisions may have significant effects on environmental outcomes, corporate practices, and raise questions of how they may best be effectively and efficiently enforced on an ongoing basis.Environment in the Courtroom, Volume II examines major contemporary environmental issues from an environmental law and policy perspective. Expanding and building upon the concepts explored in Environment in the Courtroom, it focuses on issues that have, or potentially could be, the subject of judicial and regulatory tribunal processes and decisions. This comprehensive work brings together leading environmental law and policy specialists to address the protection of the marine environment, issues in Canadian wildlife protection, and the enforcement of greenhouse gas emissions regulation.Drawing on a wide range of viewpoints, Environment in the Courtroom, Volume II asks specific questions about and provides detailed examination of Canada's international climate obligations, carbon pricing, trading and emissions regulations in oil production, agriculture, and international shipping, the protection of marine mammals and the marine environment, Indigenous rights to protect and manage wildlife, and much more. This is an essential book for students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental law.

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