Environmental liability and ecological damage in European law / edited by Monika Hinteregger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hinteregger, Monika, editor.

Series:

Common core of European private law.

The common core of European private law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liability for environmental damages--Europe.

Liability for environmental damages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxvi, 697 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Environmental Liability & Ecological Damage In European Law

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Providing a comprehensive analysis of environmental liability law in Europe, this book offers a general introduction to the status of environmental liability in Europe. It describes the relevant international treaties and the EC-Environmental Liability Directive and discusses the conflict of laws issues regarding transfrontier environmental damage. It also contains the results of a comparative project covering 14 jurisdictions in 13 European countries (Austria, Belgium, England and Wales, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden) on the private law aspects of environmental liability. It addresses the main problems of the application of tort law in environmental law, such as the availability of non-fault liability, the establishment of causation, the scope of available remedies and the issue of legal standing. Due to the very limited harmonizing effect of the EC-Environmental Liability Directive national tort law will keep its importance in the field of environmental liability.

Contents:

Environmental liability in Europe. International and supranational systems of environmental liability in Europe / Monika Hinteregger

Some observations on the law applicable to transfrontier environmental damage / Willibald Posch. The case studies

The questionnaire : Scope of liable persons : Comparative remarks. Cases : Industrial plant

Sudden incident

Dangerous substances

Genetically modified organisms

Micro-organisms

Waste disposal site

Producer of waste

Nuclear power plant

The harmless substance

Historic pollution. Causation and multiple tortfeasors. Cancer from pollution

Increase in leukaemia rate

The dying forest

Fish kill. Remedies and legal standing. Contaminated land

The polluted river

The oil spill

Contaminated drinking water.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 649-672) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18767-2

1-281-75146-4

9786611751463

0-511-41481-1

0-511-49497-1

0-511-41549-4

0-511-41322-X

0-511-41229-0

0-511-41416-1

OCLC:

437219434