Environmental law

About: Environmental law is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9487 publications have been published within this topic receiving 92224 citations. The topic is also known as: Environmental Law & Environmental law.

International Law and the Environment

Abstract: 1. International Law and the Environment 2. International Governance and the Formulation of Environmental Law and Policy 3. The Structure of International Environmental Law I: Rights and Obligations of States 4. The Structure of International Environmental Law II: Regulation, Compliance, Enforcement and Dispute Settlement 5. The Structure of International Environmental Law III: Environmental Rights and Crimes 6. Environmental Protection and Sustainable Use of International Watercourses 7. The Law of the Sea and the Protection of the Marine Environment 8. The International Control of Hazardous Waste 9. Nuclear Energy and the Environment 10. Protecting the Atmosphere and Outer Space 11. Conservation of Nature, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity: Principles and Problems 12. Conservation of Migratory and Land-based Species and Biodiversity 13. Conservation of Marine Living Resources and Biodiversity 14. International Trade and Environmental Protection

World without End: Economics, Environment, and Sustainable Development

Abstract: If world poverty is to be reduced, businesses and governments must continue to pursue economic growth. But growth cannot continue without attention to the environment. This book explores how growth can become environmentally sustainable. It shows that a balance between economic growth and care of the environment is needed in all nations -- especially poor ones -- to prevent environmental degradation, which results in lost economic output and endangers people's health. For example, erosion of soil depletes resources for fuel and fodder and causes food output to decline. The authors address a wide variety of subjects ranging from how to measure sustainable development, to the relation between population and environment, to market paradigms and pollution, to terms of trade and the environment. They use a great deal of material, such as background papers and research conducted for the World Bank, that has not been readily available to the public. And they present a more complete synthesis of the literature relevant for policymaking than has been given in any other book.

Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future

Abstract: Climate change may soon have its “lawmaking moment” in the United States. The inherent problem with such lawmaking moments, however, is just that: they are moments. What Congress and the President do with much fanfare can quickly and quietly slip away in the ensuing years. This is famously so for environmental law. Subsequent legislative amendments, limited budgets, appropriations riders, interpretive agency rulings, massive delays in rulemaking, and simple nonenforcement are more than capable of converting a seemingly uncompromising legal mandate into nothing more than a symbolic aspirational statement. Climate change legislation is especially vulnerable to being unraveled over time for a variety of reasons, but especially because of the extent to which it imposes costs on the short term for the realization of benefits many decades and sometimes centuries later. To be successful over the long term, climate change legislation will need to include institutional design features that insulate programmatic implementation to a