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Environmental Law: Text, Cases, and Materials has been designed to provide students with everything they need to approach the subject with confidence. Experts in the area, the authors combine clear and insightful commentary with carefully chosen extracts from UK and international sources to offer students a well-rounded view of the subject area.
Covering a broad range of topics, the authors introduce discussion on controversies and debates and encourage readers to engage in critical reflection by posing regular discussion questions throughout the text. Further reading suggestions point students towards useful resources, guiding their independent research.
Online Resources
This book is also accompanied by online updates collated by the authors, helping students to stay well-informed.
List of contents
- Part I: The Basics
- 1: What is environmental law?
- 2: Understanding environmental problems
- Part II: Legal Themes and Concepts
- 3: Private law
- 4: Public law
- 5: Criminal liability
- 6: Statutory liabilities and remedies
- 7: Courts
- 8: Principle and policy
- 9: Regulatory strategy
- Part III: Legal Cultures
- 10: Environmental law in the legal culture of the United Kingdom
- 11: European Union environmental law
- 12: International environmental law
- Part IV: Pollution Control
- 13: Pollution control permitting
- 14: Integrated pollution control
- 15: Water pollution
- 16: Waste regulation
- 17: Air quality law
- 18: Climate change law
- Part V: Environmental Law and Environmental Protection
- 19: Planning law
- 20: Environmental impact assessment
- 21: Nature conservation
About the author
Elizabeth Fisher is a Professor of Environmental Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford and is General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law. She has written widely on environmental law and was shortlisted for the OUP Law Teacher of the Year Award in 2011 and won the SLS Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2008.
Bettina Lange is an Associate Professor of Law and Regulation at the University of Oxford. Bettina has written widely on socio-legal aspects of environmental regulation. She teaches courses on environmental law, socio-legal research methods, and regulation.
Eloise Scotford is a Professor of Environmental Law at UCL and member of UCL's Centre of Law and the Environment. She is Analysis Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law and Associate Member of Landmark Chambers. She writes widely on environmental law and actively researches the legal treatment of environmental principles, air quality law, climate change governance, waste law, and legislative and adjudicative processes as they relate to the environment.
Summary
Environmental Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers a comprehensive, critical, and case-focused approach to the subject, combining insightful author commentary with carefully selected extracts to fully support students.
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This book is a great resource drawing on an excellent breadth of source material. Prof Karen Morrow, Professor of Environmental Law, Swansea University
