Environmental Law: The Law and Policy Relating to the Protection of the Environment - Softcover

Ball, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185431887X ISBN 13: 9781854318879

Publisher: Blackstone Press Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

The fifth edition of this work includes material on environmentalism and environmentalism law, international environmental law, access to environmental justice, controls over industrial processes, noise control and contaminated land. It also covers legislation on pollution prevention and control.

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From the Back Cover

Since at least the latter part of the twentieth century there has been a crescendo of concern for the environment, and environmental law is increasingly recognized as an important component of any meaningful collective response to the harmful consequences—both actual and threatened—of environmental degradation.

Research about and around environmental law flourishes as never before. Moreover, the theoretical framework within which the subject sits has become increasingly sophisticated as the principles and concepts which have emerged especially over the last thirty years or so (such as the ‘precautionary’ and the ‘polluter pays’ principle and the goal of sustainable development) are refined and clarified. This new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Law, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. As well as bringing together the finest work of legal scholarship, this four-volume collection places environmental regulation in a multidisciplinary context and includes vital work from economists, political scientists, philosophers, ethicists, historians and natural scientists to illuminate the many different perspectives which inform and influence law’s response to environmental problems.

The first volume (‘Environmental Law in Context’) assembles work on the difficulties of drawing the borders of the subject to examine and explore the past, present and future of environmental law. The second volume (‘Perspectives on Environmental Problems’) collects the key research from different perspectives on environmental challenges, ranging from economic justifications for regulatory intervention to ethical considerations and modern forms of environmental governance. Volume 3 (‘Law and Environmental Problems’) gathers the most important work on the development and role of law in solving environmental problems. The scholarship assembled in the final volume (‘Regulating Environmental Problems’) covers the different modes of regulating environmental problems. It addresses contentious issues such as the most appropriate level at which to regulate, and the best institutional arrangements in which to implement regulation.

The material contained in the four volumes of Environmental Law covers global themes, crosses jurisdictional borders, captures different theoretical perspectives and elucidates numerous substantive areas of the subject both to provide an intellectual justification of the foundations of environmental law and to stake out the boundaries of this once amorphous topic. It is destined to be valued by scholars and students of environmental law—as well as those working in allied areas—as a vital one-stop research resource.

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185431887X
• ISBN 13: 9781854318879
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 767