-Environmental Law

Environmental law is one of the most rapidly expanding areas of law. It is also one of the fastest changing. This new edition, with its clear and up-to-date description of the law, will prove invaluable to students, practitioners and others concerned with the protection of the environment. Well established and highly regarded, Environmental Law addresses the general principles of the law surrounding this growing area. It explains the UK's approach to environmental regulation, as well as the domestic implications of European and international laws. It also deals with the law relating to specific environmental problems. The emphasis throughout is placed on how the law works in practice and the various remedies which are available. This fifth edition contains new chapters on contaminated land; environmental values and environmental law. It has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the law including: The Climate Change Treaty The Landfill Directive The Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 The Town and Country Planning Regulations 1999.

Environmental law addresses the broad question of how to reconcile human activity with the need to protect the life-support system of humans and other species on a planet of limited resources. This question cannot be fully understood or explored without acknowledging that environmental issues do not respect political boundaries. Once introduced to the challenges of effectively addressing environmental problems, students can easily appreciate the value of concerted international efforts to address those challenges, and lessons that can be learned from efforts in other countries. Global Issues in Environmental Law is designed to facilitate the introduction of international and comparative legal issues into the basic Environmental Law course, but could also be used in a seminar on the subject. The book covers: constitutional protection of the environment; the precautionary principle; intergenerational equity; international and comparative approaches to the regulation of air, water and toxic substance pollution; global climate change; wildlife and biodiversity preservation; the Law of the Sea; and management of oceans and coastal areas.

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Adopting an interdisciplinary framework, the book succinctly, yet accurately, traverses the full gamut of issues challenging the world today. This new edition deals more fully than the third edition with climate change, energy, and sustainable development. It also traverses a host of new challenges, such as drafting a new Kyoto Protocol, the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan. It then clearly analyzes the legal responses, whether in the form of treaties, customary law, or soft law instruments.

This wide-ranging and comprehensive Handbook examines recent developments in international environmental law (IEL) and the crossover effects of this expansion on other areas of international law, such as trade law and the law of the sea.

The expert contributors offer analyses of foundational issues in IEL, such as responsibility for environmental damage, sustainable development and the precautionary principle, alongside studies in topical subject areas including marine protection and the law of international watercourses. This Research Handbook offers an in-depth analysis of IEL, both as a field of law in its own right, and as part of the wider system of international law. It gives a comprehensive view of IEL in all its forms and complexity.

With thorough examination of specific environmental regimes and compliance mechanisms, this handbook will be an indispensable resource for legal scholars, students and practitioners alike.

Contributors: R. Barnes, M. Bowman, E. Brown Weiss, A.C. Brusendorff, P. Cullet, L.A. de La Fayette, N. de Sadeleer, M.A. Drumbl, O. Elias, M. Fitzmaurice, D. Freestone, D. French, P. Galizzi, A. Gillespie, J. Gomula, A. Herklotz, K. Hulme, N. Klein, K. Kummer Peiry, F. Lesniewska, G. Loibl, P. Merkouris, P. Okowa, D.M. Ong, H. Paulomaki, A. Perry-Kessaris, M. Pyhala, J. Razzaque, P. Schwartz, K.N. Scott, D. Shelton, G. Ulfstein