Environmental Assessment: The Regulation of Decision Making

ISBN-13: 9780199207589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 400 str.

Jane Holder

Opis

Environmental assessment has long been a key legal instrument of environmental law. It now governs decision making in many areas relating to environmental protection: pollution control, land use, conservation, and policy making. This volume analyses the development and current state of this mechanism, drawing together the related disciplines of law, governance, and the regulation of decision making. The practice of environmental decision making is elucidated through the use of case studies of contemporary development and policy projects.

Recenzje

'Holder does not shirk [these] difficult questions; through an immpressively close examination of environmental assessment, Holder opens up some of the key dilemmas facing those concerned with the means by which we seek to protect the environment. This book is the type of wide ranging and imaginative legal scholarship that deserves the widest readership.'

O autorze

Dr. Jane Holder is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Laws at University College London (UCL), where she has worked since 1992. She is Co-director of the centr of Law and the Environment and the Centre of Law and the European Union at the Faculty of Laws at UCL, and is a member of the board of the journal Social Legal Studies.