Regulating a thousand cuts : global law and policy solutions to cumulative environmental problems / Rebecca Nelson, University of Melbourne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Rebecca (Law teacher), Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental impact analysis--Law and legislation.

Environmental impact analysis.

Environmental law, International.

Environmental protection.

environmental protection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Cumulative environmental problems are complex, insidious, slow-motion tragedies that are all too common, from biodiversity loss, to urban air pollution, to environmental injustice. Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative and applied approach, this book offers a new framework for designing solutions using four integrated regulatory functions: Conceptualization, Information, Regulatory intervention and Coordination (the CIRCle Framework). Rules that deliver these functions can help us to clarify what we care about, reveal the cumulative threats to it and do something about those threats - together. Examples from around the world illustrate diverse legal approaches to each function and three major case studies from California, Australia and Italy provide deeper insights. Regulating a Thousand Cuts offers an optimistic, solution-oriented resource and a step-by-step guide to analysis for researchers, policymakers, regulators, law reformers and advocates. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introducing Cumulative Environmental Impacts as a Central Problem for Law

Why Cumulative Environmental Problems Are Difficult and Implications for Law : Introducing the CIRCle Framework

Law and Cumulative Environmental Problems : A Landscape for Analysis

Conceptualization : Laws for Defining What Matters, Who Matters, and What Unacceptable Harm Means

Information : Laws for Producing, Sharing, Aggregating and Analyzing Information

Regulatory Intervention : Laws for Influencing Cumulative Harm

Coordination : Laws for Making Links

Not a drop to drink : Conceptualizing Environmental Justice in California Groundwater

Coral, Coal and Cattle : Cumulative Impacts and the Great Barrier Reef

Between Nature and Culture : Regulating Cumulative Impacts on alpine Grasslands

Design for Regulating a Thousand Cuts : Summary Guidance and Concluding Reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Nelson, Rebecca Regulating a thousand cuts

ISBN:

9781009091930

100909193X

OCLC:

1501802186

Publisher Number:

CIPO000254588

Access Restriction:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access