Den svenska miljörätten introducerar läsaren i miljörätten som juridiskt ämne. Bland författningarna analyseras miljöbalken särskilt ingående. Plan- och bygglagen och skogsvårdslagen är exempel på annan mark- och miljölagstiftning som behandlas. Den…
Denna lärobok behandlar huvuddragen i nuvarande regler om planering, fastighetsbildning, expropriation, allemansrätt, miljöskydd, naturvård och annan markanvändning. Särskilt behandlas miljöbalken med dess genomgripande betydelse för fastighetsrätte…
An accessible and comprehensive resource, EU Environmental Law and Policy explains the structure and logic of EU environmental law and enables readers to quickly gain a thorough understanding of the different areas of EU secondary law pertaining to…
Vad ska en miljökonsekvensbeskrivning (MKB) innehålla? Varför behövs det alternativ i en miljöbedömning? Den här boken ger dig en introduktion till vad miljöbedömning är. Den beskriver hur de olika stegen i miljöbedömningsprocessen går till och vad…
MILJÖBALKEN trädde i kraft 1999 och är en samlad miljölagstiftning som är stefan rubenson sektorsövergripande. Ambitionen med miljöbalken är att utifrån ett modernt hållbarhetsbegrepp åstadkomma en sektorsövergripande miljölagstiftning som kan funge…
Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change provides a new perspective on how climate change matters in policy-making, business and everyday life. It argues that the work of low carbon transitions takes place through the creation of devices, the m…
WINNER OF THE 2015 IBPA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD IN POLITICS/CURRENT EVENTS The Ecology of Law Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei argue that at the root of many of the environmental, economic, and social crises we face today is a legal system based on an o…
Uncovers the systemic problems that expose poor communities to environmental hazards From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be haza…
Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the 35th ann…
I denna andra upplaga av Vattentjänstlagen beskrivs den nya instansordning som gäller från 2016, där Va-nämnden har avvecklats och ersatts av mark- och miljödomstolarna.Boken beskriver hur lagen om allmänna vattentjänster är kopplad till annan lagst…
Coined barely two decades ago, the Anthropocene has become one of the most influential and controversial terms in environmental policy. Yet it remains an ambivalent and contested formulation, giving rise to a multitude of unexpected, and often uncom…
The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutionsClimate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societie…
International Environmental Law offers a concise, conceptually clear, and legally rigorous introduction to contemporary international environmental law and practice. The book covers all major environmental agreements, paying particular attention to…
This book is open access under a CC-BY license.The multiple purposes of nature - livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists - have turned environmental governance in Latin Americ…
The idea of building an economy which supports sustainable development without degrading the environment has been widely debated and broadly embraced by politicians, civil servants, the media, academics and the public alike for several decades. This…
EU Environmental Law is a critical, comprehensive and engaging account of the essential and emerging issues in European environmental law and regulation today. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, the book delivers a themat…
A critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practic…
This wide-ranging and comprehensive Handbook examines recent developments in international environmental law (IEL) and the crossover effects of this expansion on other areas of international law, such as trade law and the law of the sea. The expert…
Environmental law has failed us all. As ecosystems collapse across the globe and the climate crisis intensifies, environmental agencies worldwide use their authority to permit the very harm that they are supposed to prevent. Growing numbers of citiz…
Vattenrätten har sedan gammalt ansetts vara en tekniskt komplicerad lagstiftning. Genom miljöbalken har de äldre vattenrättsliga bestämmelserna samordnats med de miljörättsliga bestämmelserna, men i många delar återstår det äldre regelverket oföränd…
The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in many of the factors that determine its fundamental properties and their in- ence on society. These changes include climate; the chemical c- position of the atmosphere; the demands of a growing human p…
Delegationen ser att regeringen med dessa förslag kan skapa goda förutsättningar att nå de mål som Sverige har förbundit sig till genom att anta agendan. I betänkandet föreslås bland annat att:riksdagen beslutar om ett nationellt mål för genomförand…
This bookreconciles competing and sometimes contradictory forms of land use, while also promoting sustainable land use options. It highlights land use planning, spatial planning, territorial (or regional) planning, and ecosystem-based or environment…
Den här boken är tillägnad Gabriel Michanek med anledning av att han blev professor emeritus i januari 2019. Medverkande författare: Helle Tegner Anker, Inge Lorange Backer, Ellen Margrethe Basse, Bertil Bengtsson, Sanja Bogojevic, Brita Bohman, Ano…
Uppsatserna i denna bok speglar miljörättens roll i en tid då samhället förändras på grund av ökad förorening, klimatförändring, överexploatering av naturresurser och utarmning av biologisk mångfald, m.m. Här diskuteras även hur miljörätten bör elle…
Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law provides the first comprehensive explication of the dynamic interactions between climate change, public health law, and environmental law, both in the United States and internationally. Responding to climat…
This important new monograph offers an innovative new analysis of the Aarhus Convention. Environmental law is dense with monolithic concepts, from environmental democracy to intergenerational justice, from sustainable development to stewardship. Eac…
Shannon O'Lear brings a geographer's perspective to environmental politics. The book considers issues of climate change, energy, food security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how political, economic, ideological and military power h…
Following the landmark Paris agreement, policy makers are under pressure to adopt policies that rapidly deliver deep, society-wide decarbonisation. Deep decarbonisation requires more durable policies, but not enough is known about if and how they ac…
Förslag på ändringar i plan- och bygglagen för att förtydliga genomförandet av MKB-direktivet, det vill säga Europaparlamentets och rådets direktiv 2011/92/EU av den 13 december 2011 om bedömning av inv…
Disputes in the energy and natural resources sector are at the heart of international arbitration. With more arbitrations arising in the international energy sector than in any other sector, it is not surprising that the highest valued awards in the…
How does culture interact with the way societies understand, live with, and act in relation to climate change? While the importance of the exchanges between culture, society and climate in the context of global environmental change is increasingly r…
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice is the much-needed complementary volume to Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction (CRC Press, May 2017). The first book laid out the international precursors for the Rights of Nat…
Public participation has become a recurring theme and a topical issue in the field of international environmental law, with many multilateral environmental instruments calling on states to guarantee effectively the concept in their laws and practice…
The crucial importance of biodiversity law to future human welfare is only now being fully appreciated. This wide-ranging Handbook presents a range of perspectives from leading international experts reflecting up-to-date research thinking on the vit…
Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions is about a specific 'promise' that participation holds for environmental decision-making. Many of the arguments for public participation in (inter)national environmental policy documents are fu…
This cutting-edge book invites readers to rethink environmental law and its critical role in ensuring a sustainable future for all. Featuring international narratives, it demonstrates how environmental law can be a potent tool to secure multi-actor…
Africa is endowed with commercially viable quantities of several minerals and metals, and, more than ever before, African countries wish to harness their mineral resources for their economic development. The African mining sector has witnessed a rev…
This new and fully updated edition of Principles of International Environmental Law offers a comprehensive and critical account of one of the fastest growing areas of international law: the principles and rules relating to environmental protection.…
Societal transformations are needed across the globe in light of pressing environmental issues. This need to transform is increasingly acknowledged in policy, planning, academic debate, and media, whether it is to achieve decarbonization, resilience…
A Winner of the Educational Award by the World Safety OrganizationContractor safety management is often seen as nothing more than a subset of general safety management in that no special consideration needs to be given to understanding the difficult…
This textbook provides a concise introduction for students with little or no legal background, to the role of law in environmental protection. It describes and explains law and legal systems, the concept of the environment, sources of environmental…
Environmental degradation in China has not only brought a wider range of diseases and other health consequences than previously understood, it has also taken a heavy toll on Chinese society, the economy, and the legitimacy of the party-state. In Tox…
With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. This book instructs on en…
This book analyses how global transactions have been progressively conducted and negotiated in the last 25 years. Achieving a new understanding of sustainability transition in the Anthropocene requires a deeper analysis on culture. The development o…
This book critically analyses the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO's latest and ground-breaking treaty in the area of cultural heritage protection. Intangible cultural heritage is broadly understood as…
Building on the previously established Millennium Development Goals, which ran from 2000-2015, the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide the UN with a roadmap for development until 2030. This topical book explores the associated legal an…
Håndtering og behandling av avfall har stor betydning for samfunnet både av miljø- og helsemessige årsaker, men også fordi avfall er en viktig ressurs og et råstoff for nye materialer og produkter. Avfall er i dag regulert gjennom internasjonale kon…
As planet Earth continues to absorb unprecedented levels of anthropogenically induced environmental and climatic change, two similar academic schools of thought have emerged in recent years, both making sustained efforts to explain how and why this…
This book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins as vague political slogans reflecting fears about environmental hazards to their embodiment in enforceable laws. Environmental law has always responded to risks posed by i…
