Law in Environmental Decision-Making - National, European, and International Perspectives

Zusatztext a book which! for some time to come! will be required reading for anu academic lawyer wishing to make sense of the environment. Informationen zum Autor Tim Jewell and Jenny Steele are both lecturers in law at the University of Southampton. Both have published widely in the area of international law. Tim Jewell is also Managing Editor of the Journal Environmental Law and Management Klappentext This collection draws together a range of approaches to environmental legal issues, covering a broad spectrum from domestic to international law. The contributors investigate aspects of law's influence in environmental decision-making and consider whether legal institutions and theory can respond adequately to the challenge of environmental change. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays exploring environmental legal issues. They regard environmental problems as posing challenges to common patterns of legal thought, investigate the law's influence in environmental decision-making, and consider whether legal institutions can respond to environmental change. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Jenny Steele and Tim Jewell: Law in Environmental Decision-Making 2: David Robinson: Regulatory Evolution in Pollution Control 3: Tim Jewell: Public Law and the Environment: The Prospects for Decision-Making 4: Jenny Steele: Assessing the Past: Tort Law and Environmental Risk 5: Cliona Kimber: Understanding Access to Environmental Information: The European Experience 6: Han Somsen: Dynamics, Process, and Instruments of Environmental Decision-Making in the European Union 7: Tony Evans: International Environmental Law and the Challenge of Globalisation 8: Christine Chinkin: International Environmental Law in Evolution Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Tim Jewell, Tim (Lecturer in Law) Steele Jewell, Tim Steele Jewell
• Assisted by: Tim Jewell (Editor), Jewell Tim (Editor), Jenny Steele (Editor), Steele Jenny (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1998
• EAN: 9780198260776
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826077-6
• No. of pages: 326
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, Wales, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Environmental, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, LAW / Property, LAW / Land Use, The environment, Political science & theory, Science / Environmental Science, Political science and theory, Environment law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Property law: general, Planning law, property law, Wales / Cymru