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With more states paying heed to environmental principles as catalysts for improving their environmental law, this book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins to their embodiment in enforceable laws. This edition will integrate to a greater extent the relationship between environmental principles and human rights.
List of contents
- 1: General Introduction
- Part I: The Polluter-Pays, Prevention, and Precautionary Principles: Three Approaches To Environmental Risk
- 2: Introduction
- 3: The Polluter-Pays Principle
- 4: The Principle of Prevention
- 5: The Precautionary Principle
- 6: Part I Conclusions
- Part II: The Legal Status and Role of the Polluter-Pays, Preventive, and Precautionary Principles: A Shift From Modern to Post-modern Law
- 7: Introduction
- 8: Theoretical Presentation of Modern and Post-modern Principles
- 9: The Evolving Function of Environmental Directing Principles in the Transition From Modern to Post-modern Law
- 10: The Legal Status of the Directing Principles of Environmental Law: From Political Slogans to Normative Principles
- 11: Environmental Directing Principles Versus Free Trade
- 12: Part II Conclusions
- Final Conclusions
About the author
Nicolas de Sadeleer is professor and Jean Marie Chair at Saint-Louis University (Brussels). He is a specialist of EU law (institutions, internal market), environmental law (international and domestic) and comparative law. He is an active commentator on EU legal and political issues in the areas of trade, investment, and sustainable development. In addition to holding guest academic positions at over forty universities around the world, he has been the recipient of
five international university chairs.
He has worked as a lawyer and as consultant with national and international authorities on a wide range of environmental issues. His research has been published with leading scholarly publishing houses and journals around the globe.
Summary
With more states paying heed to environmental principles as catalysts for improving their environmental law, this book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins to their embodiment in enforceable laws. This edition will integrate to a greater extent the relationship between environmental principles and human rights.
Additional text
The book represents a step forward in the theory of the nature and functions of the environmental principles communicating rather complex concepts. The analyses are original, important and largerly convincing and deserve attention. The book can strongly be recommended to environmental academics.
