Comparative Environmental Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yang, Tseming.

Contributor:

Telesetsky, Anastasia.

Phillips, Sara K.

Series:

Research Handbooks in Comparative Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2025.

Summary:

Discussing the law in theory and in practice, Comparative Environmental Law identifies the ways in which regulatory systems converge or diverge, examining key developments in international legal frameworks from every continent.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part I: Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction to Comparative Environmental Law

Chapter 2: A comparative environmental law primer

Part II: Planning and sustainability

Chapter 3: Project-based environmental impact assessment: comparative study and projected trends

Chapter 4: Strategic environmental assessment in environmental law: a comparative perspective

Chapter 5: Information disclosure as a pollution management tool: pollution release and transfer registries

Chapter 6: Comparative urban sustainable development law and governance and the urban commons

Part III: Rights-based frameworks

Chapter 7: Environmental human rights: a critical comparative view

Chapter 8: Access to environmental information under international law

Chapter 9: Environmental law and policy and Indigenous peoples

Chapter 10: Rights of nature: time for a next generation normative paradigm shift?

Part IV: Accountability

Chapter 11: Compliance and enforcement

Chapter 12: Comparative environmental criminal law

Chapter 13: Specialist environmental courts and tribunals

Chapter 14: A comparative study of environmental public interest litigation

Part V: Sectors

Chapter 15: Contaminated land

Chapter 16: Energy transition and renewable energy law

Chapter 17: Comparing approaches to water quality regulation

Chapter 18: Comparative Latin American and United States water law

Chapter 19: Mining law and governance: structures and challenges

Chapter 20: Comparative food waste law and policy

Chapter 21: Biodiversity laws of the US and EU

Chapter 22: Uniform and locally tailored emission standards in American and European air pollution law: the impact of historical regulatory traditions

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-78897-120-5

1-03-536943-5

OCLC:

1528858078