Law : Environmental

The precautionary principle, the polluters pay principle and similar principles have become embedded in the language of contemporary environment policy. In this important new study, leading European experts in environmental law consider the legal significance of such environmental principles, both in jurisprudential theory and in practice before the courts. The development of the principles within the European Treaty is considered as well as the approach of the European Court of Justice to their interpretation. But it is the interpretation of environmental principles in front of national courts within Europe that forms the heart of the study, with chapters covering a number of the key Europe jurisdictions. Are such principles raised in cases? How do judges apply them? Do they determine the outcome of legal disputes?. The study, the first of its kind, presents a dynamic picture of environmental case law across Europe, and will be of importance to practitioners, advanced students, and those concerned with the future development of environmental law and policy. more...

Price: $68.00

By giving further effect to the European Convention on Human Rights, the Human Rights Act 1998 has had a significant effect on property law. Article 1 of the First Protocol to the Convention is particularly important, as it protects against the interference with the enjoyment of possessions. Compulsory acquisition, insolvency, planning, taxation, environmental regulation, and landlord and tenant laws are just some of the fields where the British and European courts have already had to assess the impact of the Protocol on private property. The Human Rights Act 1998 also restricts the scope of property rights, as some Convention rights conflict with rights of private property. For example, the Article 8 right to respect for the home has been used to protect against environmental harm, in some cases at the expense of property and economic rights. This book seeks to provide a structured approach to the extensive case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the UK courts on these issues, and to provide guidance on the direction the law is likely to take in future. Chapters cover the history and drafting of the relevant Convention rights, the scope and structure of the rights (especially Article 1 of the First Protocol), and how, through the Human Rights Act 1998, the Convention rights have already affected and are likely to affect developments in selected areas of English law. more...

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A work about a specific 'promise' that participation holds for environmental decision-making. It seeks answer to the question: What restricts and what enables information to hold the 'promise' that public participation lead to better environmental decision-making and better outcomes? more...

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Long-range models that include product and resource detail are essential to meaningful analysis of both industry and resource sustainability. Taking this as its central argument, this book provides essential reading to anyone interested in projecting the future of either the forest products market and/or the forest resource conditions. It is aimed at policy makers, model builders, researchers and graduate students who are building or using forest sector models, as well as at forest industry managers and analysts. While focusing on a specific modeling system ??? the US Timber Assessment models ??? the authors highlight the general elements that might comprise a forest-sector market model of any country or region. Approaches to policy analysis are also general and equally applicable to both national and multi-national forest policy development outside the US ??? particularly in relation to on-going efforts to formulate national programs of sustainable forestry. The text provides literature surveys on relevant modeling issues and policy concerns, and demonstrates the application of the modeling system using a ???base case??? 50 year projection and a small set of scenarios to illustrate, for example, the effects of changes in public harvest policies, global change, variations in investments in silviculture, and globalization. Darius Adams and Richard Haynes are widely recognized as leading experts in the forest sector modeling field. more...

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Das Buch behandelt rechtliche und naturschutzfachliche Fragen des Artenschutzes, denen sich die Praxis in Verfahren der Fachplanung, der kommunalen Bauleitplanung sowie bei der Zulassung von Eingriffsvorhaben zunehmend konfrontiert sieht. Vor dem Hintergrund einer Darstellung des einschlgigen internationalen und europischen Naturschutzrechts werden die normativen Anforderungen des nationalen Artenschutzrechts, des gesetzlichen Biotopschutzes sowie der naturschutzrechtlichen Eingriffsregelung unter stetem Einbezug fachwissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse erlutert. Praktisch besonders relevante Einzelfragen (z.B. Artenspektrum, Untersuchungsaufwand, CEF-Manahmen) erfahren eine Vertiefung aus fachwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Eine exemplarische Darstellung der Problembewltigung anhand typischer Fallkonstellationen und ein umfangreicher Anhang mit Informationen ber smtliche besonders und streng geschtzten Tier- und Pflanzenarten runden die Darstellung ab. more...

Price: $119.00