EU Environmental Principles and Scientific Uncertainty before National Courts: The Case of the Habitats Directive - Hardcover

Emma Lees; Mariolina Eliantonio; Tiina Paloniitty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509948198 ISBN 13: 9781509948192

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

This comparative book explores the dynamics driving how courts across Europe and beyond understand and analyse scientific information in nature conservation. The Habitats and the Birds Directive―the core of EU nature conservation law―are usually seen as the most ‘uniform’ parts of EU environmental law. This book analyses the case law from 11 current and former EU Member States’ courts and explores the dynamics of how, and crucially why, their understandings of scientific uncertainty on the one hand, and EU environmental principles on the other, vary.

The courts’ scope and depth of review, access to scientific knowledge, and scientific literacy all influence such decisions―as does their interpretation of norms and principles. How have the courts evaluated scientific evidence, encompassing its essential uncertainties? This book answers this and many more questions pertinent to EU environmental law, comparative environmental law, administrative law, and STS studies.

Co-edited by experienced leaders in the field, and with outstanding contributors, this book is an essential guide to the dynamics of nature conservation law.

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About the Author

Mariolina Eliantonio is Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Emma Lees is Full-time Professor at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Italy.
Tiina Paloniitty is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509948198
• ISBN 13: 9781509948192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Emma Lees, Mariolina Eliantonio, Tiina Paloniitty