Environmental principles : from political slogans to legal rules / Nicolas de Sadeleer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadeleer, Nicolas de, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Environmental law, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (592 pages) : illustrations (colour).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

With more states paying heed to environmental principles as catalysts for improving their environmental law, this book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins to their embodiment in enforceable laws. This edition will integrate to a greater extent the relationship between environmental principles and human rights.

Contents:

Part I. The polluter-pays, prevention, and precautionary principles : three approaches to environmental risk

The polluter-pays principle

The principle of prevention

The precautionary principle

Part II. The legal status and role of the polluter-pays, preventive, and precautionary principles : a shift from modern to post-modern law

Theoretical presentation of modern and post-modern principles

The evolving function of environmental directing principles in the transition from modern to post-modern law

The legal status of the directing principles of environmental law : from political slogans to normative principles

Environmental directing principles versus free trade.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-187989-4

0-19-258266-6

0-19-258267-4