Research Handbook on Plastics Regulation: Law, Policy and the Environment (Research Handbooks in Environmental Law series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1802201513 ISBN 13: 9781802201512

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

This insightful Research Handbook addresses whether international, national and regional laws are able to address the challenges plastics pose. Expert contributors demonstrate that many laws on this topic are fragmented, and advocate for the development of systemic approaches which engage a broad range of actors to ensure effective regulation moving forward.

Bringing together leading academics and practitioners, the Research Handbook on Plastics Regulation addresses key topics such as the interference of plastics in the human right to health and wellbeing, food security, biodiversity, ocean pollution, trade, and the use of petroleum. It proposes potential routes for the development of future plastics regulation through earth systems law, the circular economy, and intellectual property and life-cycle based approaches to product design. Fundamentally, the Research Handbook emphasises the crucial need for societal and equitable justice with regards to plastics use and the reform of regulatory practices.

Providing legal insight on a pressing global topic, this Research Handbook is invaluable for law students and academics specialising in human rights, intellectual property, law of the sea/ocean governance and environmental law at a national, international or global level. It will also be beneficial to policymakers working in environmental regulation and governance.

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About the Author

Edited by Elizabeth A. Kirk, Professor Emerita, School of Law, University of Lincoln, UK, Naporn Popattanachai, School of Law, University of Galway, Ireland, Richard Barnes, School of Law, University of Lincoln, UK and Faculty of Law, Norwegian Centre for the Law of Sea, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Eva R. van der Marel, Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1802201513
• ISBN 13: 9781802201512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 452
• Editor: Kirk Elizabeth A., Popattanachai Naporn, Barnes Richard A., Van Der Marel Eva R.