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List of contents
- Framing comparative environmental law
- 1: Jorge E. Viñuales: Comparative environmental law: Structuring a field
- 2: Emma Lees: Value in comparative law - 3D Cartography and analytical description
- Part I: Country studies
- 3: Douglas Fisher: Australia
- 4: Antonio Benjamin and Nicholas Bryner: Brazil
- 5: Stepan Wood: Canada
- 6: Wang Xi: People's Republic of China
- 7: Markus Gehring, Freedom-Kai Phillips, Emma Lees: The European Union
- 8: Laurent Neyret: France
- 9: Olaf Dilling and Wolfgang Köck: Germany
- 10: Bharat Desai and Balraj K. Sidhu: India
- 11: Simon Butt and Prayekti Murharjanti: Indonesia
- 12: Julius Weitzdörfer and Lucy Lu Reimers: Japan
- 13: Marisol Anglés Hernández and Monserrat Rovalo: Mexico
- 14: Lye Lin-Heng: Singapore
- 15: Jan Glazewski: South Africa
- 16: Hong Sik Cho and Gina J. Choi: South Korea
- 17: Stuart Bell: United Kingdom
- 18: James Salzman: United States of America
- Part II: Problems
- 19: Massimiliano Montini: Atmospheric pollution
- 20: Dan Tarlock: Environmental regulation of freshwater
- 21: Ben Boer and Ian Hannam: Land degradation
- 22: Agustin Garcia Ureta: Nature conservation
- 23: Till Markus: Regulation of marine-capture fisheries
- 24: Anne Saab: Genetically modified organisms
- 25: Justin Gundlach and Michael Gerrard: Climate change and energy transition policies
- 26: Lucas Bergkamp and Adam Abelkop: Regulation of chemicals
- 27: Natalie Jones and Geert van Calster: Waste regulation
- 28: Emma Lees: Contaminated sites
- Part III: Systems
- A. Infrastructure
- 29: Eloise Scotford: Environmental principles across jurisdictions: Legal connectors and catalysts
- 30: Moritz Reese: Distribution of powers
- 31: Christopher P. Rodgers: Property systems and environmental regulation
- 32: Brian Preston: Regulatory organisation
- 33: Elizabeth Fisher: Sciences, environmental laws, and legal cultures: Fostering collective epistemic responsibilities
- 34: Veerle Heyvaert: Transnational networks
- 35: Emma Lees: Adjudication systems
- B. Policy instruments
- Command and control regulation
- 36: Wang Jin: Environmental planning
- 37: Colin Reid: Protection of sites
- 38: Bettina Lange: Command and control standards and cross-jurisdictional harmonization
- 39: Neil Craik: The assessment of environmental impact
- Market mechanisms
- 40: Janet Milne: Environmental taxation
- 41: Sanja Bogojevic: Trading schemes
- Informational techniques
- 42: Amy Cutter-McKenzie, Marianne Logan, Ferdousi Khatun, Karen Malone: A cartography of environmental education
- 43: Karen Morrow: Informational requirements and environmental protection
- 44: Jason Czarnezki, Margot Pollans, Sarah Main: Eco-labelling
- Ex post injury-based mechanisms
- 45: Monika Hinteregger: Environmental liability
- 46: Louis Kotze and Erin Daly: A cartography of environmental human rights
- Part IV: Legal context
- 47: Ole Pedersen: Environmental law and constitutional and public law
- 48: David Howarth: Environmental law and private law
- 49: Emma Lees: Environmental law and criminal law
- 50: Geert van Calster: Environmental law in private international law
- 51: Leslie-Anne Duvic Paoli: Environmental law and public international law
About the author
Emma Lees is University Lecturer in Environmental and Property Law at University of Cambridge and is the Deputy-Director of the Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EERNG), and a fellow of the Centre for Property Law. She is also a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Jorge E. Viñuales holds the Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge and is the founder and former Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). He is also the Chairman of the Compliance Committee of the UN-ECE/WHO-Europe Protocol on Water and Health, a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre, the Director-General of the Latin American Society of International Law, and an Of Counsel with Lalive. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was the Pictet Chair of International Environmental Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, where he keeps a limited affiliation. Professor Viñuales is also a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.
Summary
This Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law. It examines in detail the methodological foundations of the discipline as well as the substance of environmental law across countries from four vantage points: country studies from all continents, responses to common problems (including air pollution, water management, nature conservation, genetically modified organisms, climate change and energy, chemicals, waste), foundational components of environmental law systems (including principles, property rights, administrative and judicial organisation, command-and-control regulation, market mechanisms, informational techniques and liability mechanisms), and common interactions of environmental protection with the broader public, private, and criminal law contexts.
The volume brings together the foremost authorities in this field from around the world to provide a concise, self-contained, and technically rigorous account of environmental law as a single overall system.
