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Informationen zum Autor Suzanne Kingston is Professor of Law at University College Dublin and Barrister-at-Law practicing at the Irish Bar, appearing regularly before the Irish and European courts. She served as a référendaire (legal advisor) in the cabinet of Advocate General Geelhoed at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg from 2004 to 2006, and has been international visiting professor of law at Columbia Law School, New York. Veerle Heyvaert is Associate Professor of Law (Reader) at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she teaches and publishes on environmental law. Founding Editor-in-Chief of Transnational Environmental Law, she has worked as an attorney in Brussels and was Moragoda Professor of Public International Law (Sri Lanka, 2015), Sir Peter North Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Keble College, Oxford, and a UNITAR Special Fellow. Aleksandra Cavoški has over ten years of experience teaching in civil and common law jurisdictions, and currently lectures at the University of Birmingham. She was a key contributor to the development of EU legal studies in Serbia, in particular EU environmental studies, as the country began the EU accession process, and publishes on environmental law issues in both English and Serbian. Klappentext A critical and contextual overview of European environmental law examining today's key environmental challenges alongside traditional topics. Zusammenfassung EU Environmental Law provides a critical and comprehensive account of the key issues in European environmental law and adopts a contextual interdisciplinary approach. Written by leading scholars! it examines increasingly important fields such as climate change law and environmental human rights law! as well as traditional environmental law topics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The foundations of EU environmental law: history, aims and context; 2. Actors and instruments; 3. Principles in EU environmental law; 4. Techniques of regulating the environment; 5. Environmental rights in Europe; 6. Public enforcement of EU environmental law; 7. Private enforcement of EU environmental law; 8. Climate change; 9. Air pollution and industrial emissions; 10. EU water law; 11. Impact assessment; 12. Nature and biodiversity protection; 13. Technological risk regulation: chemicals, genetically modified organisms and nanotechnology; 14. Waste....