Environmental protection, law, and policy : text and materials / Jane Holder and Maria Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holder, Jane, author.

Lee, Maria, author.

Contributor:

Elworthy, Sue, 1943-

Series:

Law in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law--Great Britain.

Environmental law.

Great Britain.

Environmental policy--Great Britain.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlv, 772 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Environmental Protection, Law & Policy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This 2007 book examines environmental law from a range of perspectives, emphasising the policy world from which environmental law is drawn and nourished. Those working within the discipline of environmental law need to engage with concepts and methods employed by disciplines other than law. The authors analyse the ways in which legal activities are supported and legitimated by work in traditional scientific or technical domains, as well as by certain more obscure but also influential cultural or philosophical assumptions. A range of regulatory techniques is explored in this book, through a close examination of both pollution control and land use. The highly complex nature of current environmental problems, demanding sophisticated and responsive legal controls, is illustrated by several in-depth case studies, including legal and policy analysis of the highly contested issues of genetically modified organisms and renewable energy projects.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Related Work:

Elworthy, Sue, 1943- Environmental protection.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511805981

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.