The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic, and Scientific Perspectives
ISBN: 9780521046923 / Angielski / Miękka / 712 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past three decades we have witnessed the environmental devastation caused by military conflict in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Kosovo conflict. This book brings together international lawyers, military officers, scientists, and economists to examine the legal, political, economic, and scientific implications of wartime damage to the natural environment and public health. This analysis of the existing legal framework includes lessons from peacetime environmental law, scientific assessment and economic valuation of ecological and public health damage, and proposals...
Over the past three decades we have witnessed the environmental devastation caused by military conflict in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Gulf War a...
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327,42 zł |
Environmental Law, the Economy and Sustainable Development: The United States, the European Union and the International Community
ISBN: 9780521049009 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comparative analysis of environmental regulation in multi-jurisdictional legal and political systems, focusing on the United States, the European Union, and the international community. Each of these systems must deal with environmental interdependencies that cross local borders, in some cases creating regional problems, such as acid deposition, ozone type smog, and pollution of shared water bodies. Some transjurisdictional environmental problems are global, including stratospheric ozone depletion, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity. Other environmental...
This book provides a comparative analysis of environmental regulation in multi-jurisdictional legal and political systems, focusing on the United Stat...
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296,23 zł |
Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: Volume I: International and Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9781904501084 / Angielski / Twarda / 473 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation provides valuable insights and analysis for legislators, policy makers and academics addressing the challenges of pursuing and achieving environmental goals through taxation policy. It contains pioneering and thought-provoking articles contributed by the world's leading environmental tax scholars representing various jurisdictions worldwide. Their aim is to ensure that by discussing and sharing environmental taxation issues that exist around the world, effective approaches used in one country may be considered and possibly implemented by governmental...
Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation provides valuable insights and analysis for legislators, policy makers and academics addressing the challeng...
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801,61 zł |
Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil
ISBN: 9780804758239 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although many developing countries have environmental statutes, regulations, and resolutions on the books, these laws are rarely enforced and often ignored. Making Law Matter presents the first book-length treatment of an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which refashioned itself in the 1980s into a powerful defender of citizen rights in environmental protection, as well as in other areas of public interest such as disability rights, consumer protection, and anticorruption. In Brazil, the offices of prosecutors and courts have become an important...
Although many developing countries have environmental statutes, regulations, and resolutions on the books, these laws are rarely enforced and often ig...
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283,33 zł |
Federal Wildlife Laws Handbook with Related Laws
ISBN: 9780865875579 / Angielski / Twarda / 679 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains summaries of some 280 federal statutes, treaties, and other federal documents that directly concern wildlife. Covers everything from laws enacted to preserve African elephants and anadromous fish to the 1973 Endangered Species Act and NAFTA. Three prefatory chapters provide introductions to
Contains summaries of some 280 federal statutes, treaties, and other federal documents that directly concern wildlife. Covers everything from laws ena...
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1162,08 zł |
NEPA Effectiveness: Mastering the Process
ISBN: 9780865876088 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guides NEPA practitioners through implementing the environmental quality and strategic planning goals of the National Environmental Policy Act. Presents an overview of the law, with specific suggestions on how it should be applied. Includes sections addressing the purposes of the Act, applicable doc
Guides NEPA practitioners through implementing the environmental quality and strategic planning goals of the National Environmental Policy Act. Presen...
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954,16 zł |
Sampling, Analysis, and Monitoring Methods: A Guide to EPA and OSHA Requirements, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780865876989 / Angielski / Miękka / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A valuable tool, this comprehensive reference simplifies the time-consuming process of searching through more than 14,000 pages of the Title 40 and 29 Code of Federal Regulations for sampling, analysis, and monitoring methods requirements, designated each year by EPA. Completely updated and greatly expanded from the previous edition, this edition features a new appendix containing the "EPA Index to Test Methods" and new sections on FIFRA, TSCA, noise control, and OSHA safety program. Within just one volume, you'll find all the tables and listings of measurement methods that you need from...
A valuable tool, this comprehensive reference simplifies the time-consuming process of searching through more than 14,000 pages of the Title 40 and 29...
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Seeking Environmental Justice
ISBN: 9789042023789 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 5th Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship conference was held at Oxford, UK in 2006. This decidedly trans-disciplinary, international event attracted participants from traditionally separate academic perspectives; each ambassadors for their disciplines and each seeking and making connections with other disciplines and other understandings. Some of the presentations from this conference have been further developed for inclusion in this book, yielding 14 chapters of paradigmatic richness covering issues ranging from environmental education and the nature of global multinational...
The 5th Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship conference was held at Oxford, UK in 2006. This decidedly trans-disciplinary, international event...
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384,48 zł |
Environmental Law for the Built Environment
ISBN: 9781859415979 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a concise exposition of the relevant law and techniques commonly used to meet the regulatory requirements concerning the built environment. It provides a much needed reference and learning text for the growing professional and student involved in the subject. Aspects of environmental law and technology covered include the administration and sources of law, town and country planning, water and air pollution, waste, integrated pollution control and the natural environment. It highlights the importance of cross-boundary control, describing in detail the European and... This book provides a concise exposition of the relevant law and techniques commonly used to meet the regulatory requirements concerning the built e... |
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209,82 zł |
A Guide to EC Environmental Law
ISBN: 9781853835858 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a simple and practical explanation of the most important aspects of EC environment law. It introduces the EC and its institutions, explains the main environmental laws - air and noise, chemicals and industrial risks, nature conservation, waste and water - how these laws can be used, how EC law is made and how to influence its development. It includes useful case studies and suggestions for further reading to those wishing to carry out further research in a particular area.
This volume provides a simple and practical explanation of the most important aspects of EC environment law. It introduces the EC and its institutions...
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220,31 zł |
Taking Responsibility : Personal Liability Under Environmental Law
ISBN: 9781853835971 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A report written by two environmental lawyers which explains the responsibilities of company directors under UK and European environmental law, and their potential personal liabilities. It sets out what steps to take to avert liabilities and what to do in
A report written by two environmental lawyers which explains the responsibilities of company directors under UK and European environmental law, and th...
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325,25 zł |
Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations: Law, Environmental Harm and the Right to Health
ISBN: 9781844075508 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the right of the unborn to health, this work provides coverage of the arguments over international legal instruments, legal cases and examples including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, industrial disasters, clean water provision, diet, HIV/AIDS, environmental racism and climate change.
Examining the right of the unborn to health, this work provides coverage of the arguments over international legal instruments, legal cases and exampl...
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251,80 zł |
The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: Legal and Policy Challenges of Climate Change
ISBN: 9789067042284 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I had the pleasure of participating at the two conferences which form the basis of this book: as a chairman at the 2007 The Hague Conference 'Tackling Climate Change - An appraisal of the Kyoto Protocol and options for the future' and as a speaker at the 2006 Siena Conference' The Kyoto Protocol and beyond: a legal perspective'. I would like to thank my colleagues Wybe Douma, Leonardo Massai and Massimiliano Montini for those opportunities, and although I was, unfortu nately, unable to contribute a paper to this book due to time constraints, I am glad to be able to say a few words on the...
I had the pleasure of participating at the two conferences which form the basis of this book: as a chairman at the 2007 The Hague Conference 'Tackling...
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195,26 zł |
Strategic Environmental Assessment in International and European Law: A Practitioner's Guide
ISBN: 9781844074891 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a regulatory requirement for development across Europe, North America, Australasia and elsewhere, yet understanding the legal aspects is challenging. This comprehensive guide provides that understanding in a clear and straightforward way. The introduction considers SEA and the law, explaining what SEA is, why it is needed, how it works and why it is required, as well as examining the role of the law. Part One provides an overview of international law, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and international law, including treaties, customary...
Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a regulatory requirement for development across Europe, North America, Australasia and elsewhere, yet unde...
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708,33 zł |
Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity : Science, Ethics, Economics and Law
ISBN: 9781844075652 / Angielski / Twarda / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecosystems have been compared to a house of cards: remove or damage a part and you risk destroying or fundamentally and irreversibly altering the whole. This book considers the extent to which human rights (such as the rights to food, energy, health, clean air or water) can be reconciled with the principles of ecological integrity.
Ecosystems have been compared to a house of cards: remove or damage a part and you risk destroying or fundamentally and irreversibly altering the whol...
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708,33 zł |
International Documents on Environmental Liability
ISBN: 9781402083662 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International Documents on Environmental Liability brings together 30 official full-text documents in the field of international environmental liability into an easily accessible, practical handbook; details the work of the International Law Commission on this topic; and provides the latest versions of international liability conventions and their statuses including the latest on: (1) 2003 UNECE Kyiv Liability Protocol; (2) 2004 EC Directive on Environmental Liability; (3) 2005 Antartica Liability Annex. The authors combined capacity as an academic, policy advisor, and... International Documents on Environmental Liability brings together 30 official full-text documents in the field of international environme... |
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586,33 zł |
Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: Volume IV: International and Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9780199231263 / Angielski / Twarda / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume IV: International and Comparative Perspectives in the Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation series is a peer-reviewed selection of papers on environmental taxation written by experts from around the world. Selected from papers delivered at the Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation, they cover the theory of environmental taxation, countries' experiences of specific environmental taxes, proposed environmental taxes, and evaluations of the role of taxation compared with other environmental instruments. The book sets forth an interdisciplinary approach to...
Volume IV: International and Comparative Perspectives in the Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation series is a peer-reviewed sel...
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1348,39 zł |
Implementing Adaptation Strategies by Legal, Economic and Planning Instruments on Climate Change
ISBN: 9783540776130 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The causes and effects of climate change are just as varied as the proposed solutions and approaches for dealing with the problem. Given the global character of climate change, comprehensive global cooperation is called for that leads to effective and appropriate international action in accordance with the respective responsibilities. These will inevitably differ depending on the capabilities and the social and economic situations of the respective actors. The causes and effects of climate change are just as varied as the proposed solutions and approaches for dealing with the problem. Given the global... |
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390,87 zł |
Environmental Law and Justice in Context
ISBN: 9780521879682 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays discusses the extent to which considerations of justice and fairness have permeated the legal debate on environmental protection. Written by a wide range of contributors who have approached the subject from fresh theoretical and practical perspectives, the essays examine how these permutations of justice have influenced policy choices relating to topics like climate change, protection of the stratospheric zone, trade and the conduct of warfare. The significance of participatory rights as a medium for the realisation of environmental justice is given extended...
This collection of essays discusses the extent to which considerations of justice and fairness have permeated the legal debate on environmental protec...
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627,64 zł |
Environmental Law for Engineers and Geoscientists
ISBN: 9781566705752 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today s engineering and geoscience student needs to know more than how to design a new or remedial project or facility. Questions of law and ambiguities of terms often occur in contracts for mining, landfills, site reclamation, waste depositories, clean up sites, land leases, operating agreements, joint ventures, and other projects. Work place situations arise where environmental compliance methods are challenged by enforcement agencies. Although the statutes, rules, and regulations may seem to be worded clearly and specifically, there are often questions in application and sometimes varied...
Today s engineering and geoscience student needs to know more than how to design a new or remedial project or facility. Questions of law and ambiguiti...
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629,62 zł |