Taking Stock of Environmental Assessment - Law, Policy and Practice

Zusatztext "...this collection can be warmly welcomed as an important contribution to the ongoing analysis of the EA process. It is refreshing in that it includes but also departs from a narrow legal analysis of legal framework and draws considerably on the reflections of those experienced in the daily business of policy development." - Sharon Turner, Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 20 no. 2 (June 2008) Informationen zum Autor Dr Jane Holder, Reader in Environmental Law, Faculty of Laws, University College London, is a member of the Centre for Law and the Environment, UCL and co-editor of Current Legal Problems. Donald McGillivray, Senior Lecturer, Kent Law School, University of Kent, lectures in environmental law and is case analysis editor for the Journal of Environmental Law. Klappentext Examining the relationship between law, environmental governance and the regulation of decision-making, this volume, both reflective and contextual in approach, uses a wide range of theories to explore the key features of modern environmental assessment. Zusammenfassung Examining the relationship between law, environmental governance and the regulation of decision-making, this volume, both reflective and contextual in approach, uses a wide range of theories to explore the key features of modern environmental assessment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Taking Stock2. Environmental Assessment: Dominant or Dormant? 3. NEPA and the Curious Evolution of Environmental Impact Assessment in the United States 4. Better Regulation in Europe5. The Development of Environmental Assessment at the Level of the European Union 6. Substance and Procedure under the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive and the Water Framework Directive 7. Access to Justice and the EIA Directive: The Implications of the Aarhus Convention 8. Bringing Environmental Assessment into the Digital Age 9. The Prospects for Ecological Impact Assessment

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• Authors: Jane (University College London Holder, Jane Campbell-Holt Holder, Jane Mcgillivray Holder
• Assisted by: Jane Holder (Editor), Jane (University College London Holder (Editor), Holder Jane (Editor), Donald McGillivray (Editor), Donald (University of Kent McGillivray (Editor), McGillivray Donald (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2007
• EAN: 9781844721016
• ISBN: 978-1-84472-101-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Umweltschützer: Denkansätze und Ideologien, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, LAW / Environmental, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental law, Environment law, Environmentalist thought and ideology