This book is concerned with enforcement of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) directive in Ireland, and by extension, in the EU. As a case study, it delves into the complex situation pertaining to Ireland, but at a more general level it offers an up-to-date, theoretically rich and critically incisive examination of the enforcement of the EIA directive in Europe, with the main focus being on the role of the national courts in overseeing the correct application of the directive by the competent authorities via the judicial review process. The procedural requirements set down in the EIA...