Decision Making In Environmental Law

Author : Tim Jewell,Jenny Steele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198260776

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Law in Environmental Decision-making by Tim Jewell,Jenny Steele Pdf

This collection of essays adopts a distinctive approach to environmental legal issues. The contributors represent a variety of specialisations, ranging from public law to international law and international relations. Some essays are written from within a UK domestic law perspective, butothers adopt a broadly comparative, supra-national or international approach.The contributors do not assume that problems and solutions in 'environmental law' should be perceived as wholly distinct from the preoccupations of existing legal specialisms. New and proposed legal responses inevitably build on or employ established legal techniques, rather than startingcompletely afresh. The contributors do however, regard environmental problems as posing or at least illuminating significant challenges to received patterns of legal thought. In the light of this, the contributors therefore investigate aspects of law's influnce in environmental decision-making, andconsider whether legal institutions and forms of thought can respond adequately to the challenge of environmental change.

Author : LeRoy Paddock,Robert L. Glicksman,Nicholas S. Bryner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 178347839X

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Decision Making in Environmental Law by LeRoy Paddock,Robert L. Glicksman,Nicholas S. Bryner Pdf

Environmental issues are at the heart of some of the most complex and consequential decisions that society must face in pursuit of a more sustainable future. They encompass the international, national, and local levels and engage all branches of government. Decision Making in Environmental Law, one of the constituent volumes in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, brings together some of the leading experts in the field and provides a structured overview of the various dimensions of decision making from an environmental law perspective. Topics include: the use of treaties, common law tools, rulemaking, access to information, regulatory structures, market-based and trading mechanisms, monitoring and reporting, voluntary programs and private regulation, environmental impact analysis, public engagement and environmental justice, administrative and judicial review, and the role of environmental courts and tribunals.

Author : Virginia H. Dale,Mary R. English
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461214182

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Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making by Virginia H. Dale,Mary R. English Pdf

This book is unique in identifying and presenting tools to environmental decision-makers to help them improve the quality and clarity of their work. These tools range from software to policy approaches, and from environmental databases to focus groups. Equally of value to environmental managers, and students in environmental risk, policy, economics and law.

Author : Jacqueline Peel
Publisher : Federation Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 1862875197

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The Precautionary Principle in Practice by Jacqueline Peel Pdf

The precautionary principle puts forward the 'commonsense' notion that decision-makers should be cautious when assessing potential health or environmental harms in the absence of the full scientific facts. It is now a well-established tenet of environmental law. The debate has turned to its legal implementation, especially its application 'in practice'. The Precautionary Principle in Practice - Environmental decision-making and scientific uncertainty focuses on these issues. It considers how decision-makers can assess threats to health or the environment when the available scientific evidence is sparse and discusses the types of 'uncertainties' that bring the precautionary principle into play.Peel uses detailed case studies which examine the implementation of the precautionary principle in actual decision-making scenarios: fisheries management; risk assessment for genetically modified organisms; and environmental impact assessment for development applications. She demonstrates an approach that takes account of variable uncertainty issues and can be adapted to different circumstances to ensure a comprehensive assessment of the potential threats to health or the environment. Jackie Peel has a background in both science and law. She took a BSC/LLB with 1st class honours at the University of Queensland and holds an LLM from New York University where she studied in 1999-2000 as a Fulbright Scholar. She is now is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne.

Author : Chad J. McGuire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351568081

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Environmental Decision-Making in Context by Chad J. McGuire Pdf

Because of the complexity involved in understanding the environment, the choices made about environmental issues are often incomplete. In a perfect world, those who make environmental decisions would be armed with a foundation about the broad range of issues at stake when making such decisions. Offering a simple but comprehensive understanding of the critical roles science, economics, and values play in making informed environmental decisions, Environmental Decision-Making in Context: A Toolbox provides that foundation. The author highlights a primary set of intellectual tools from different disciplines and places them into an environmental context through the use of case study examples. The case studies are designed to stimulate the analytical reasoning required to employ environmental decision-making and ultimately, help in establishing a framework for pursuing and solving environmental questions, issues, and problems. They create a framework individuals from various backgrounds can use to both identify and analyze environmental issues in the context of everyday environmental problems. The book strikes a balance between being a tightly bound academic text and a loosely defined set of principles. It takes you beyond the traditional pillars of academic discipline to supply an understanding of the fundamental aspects of what is actually involved in making environmental decisions and building a set of skills for making those decisions.

Author : Elizabeth D. Mullin
Publisher : Environmental Law Institute
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 158576017X

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The Art of Commenting by Elizabeth D. Mullin Pdf

The Art of Commenting takes the reader through a logical, step-by-step approach to reviewing environmental documents and preparing comments.

Author : Maria Lee
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 1841134104

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EU Environmental Law by Maria Lee Pdf

Contemporary environmental regulation is having to adapt to significant challenges. These challenges come from all directions, including the quest for economic efficiency, popular mistrust of experts and frequent observation of poor practical results. At EU level, criticisms of regulatory activity are accentuated by the significant questions that surround the legitimacy of certain EU institutions and processes. EU Environmental Law examines a range of substantive EU environmental laws and policies and considers far-reaching endeavors to improve environmental regulation.

Author : John Martin Gillroy,Joe Bowersox
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822383468

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The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making by John Martin Gillroy,Joe Bowersox Pdf

In The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making a group of prominent environmental ethicists, policy analysts, political theorists, and legal experts challenges the dominating influence of market principles and assumptions on the formulation of environmental policy. Emphasizing the concept of sustainability and the centrality of moral deliberation to democracy, they examine the possibilities for a wider variety of moral principles to play an active role in defining “good” environmental decisions. If environmental policy is to be responsible to humanity and to nature in the twenty-first century, they argue, it is imperative that the discourse acknowledge and integrate additional normative assumptions and principles other than those endorsed by the market paradigm. The contributors search for these assumptions and principles in short arguments and debates over the role of science, social justice, instrumental value, and intrinsic value in contemporary environmental policy. In their discussion of moral alternatives to enrich environmental decision making and in their search for a less austere and more robust role for normative discourse in practical policy making, they analyze a series of original case studies that deal with environmental sustainability and natural resources policy including pollution, land use, environmental law, globalism, and public lands. The unique structure of the book—which features the core contributors responding in a discourse format to the central chapters’ essays and debates—helps to highlight the role personal and public values play in democratic decision making generally and in the field of environmental politics specifically. Contributors. Joe Bowersox, David Brower, Susan Buck, Celia Campbell-Mohn, John Martin Gillroy, Joel Kassiola, Jan Laitos, William Lowry, Bryan Norton, Robert Paehlke, Barry G. Rabe, Mark Sagoff, Anna K. Schwab, Bob Pepperman Taylor, Jonathan Wiener

Author : Maria Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782254089

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EU Environmental Law, Governance and Decision-Making by Maria Lee Pdf

A vast and diverse body of EU law addresses an enormous range of environmental matters. This book examines a number of areas of substantive EU environmental law, focusing on the striking preoccupation of EU environmental law with the structure of decision-making. It highlights the observation that environmental protection and environmental decision-making depend intimately on both detailed, specialised information about the physical state of the world, and on political judgments about values and priorities. It also explores the elaborate mechanisms that attempt to bring these distinctive decision-making resources into EU environmental law in areas including industrial pollution, chemicals regulation, environmental assessment and climate change.

Author : PAUL. MULDOON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177255572X

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INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY IN CANADA. by PAUL. MULDOON Pdf

Author : Jane Holder,Maria Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521690269

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Environmental Protection, Law and Policy by Jane Holder,Maria Lee Pdf

This 2007 book examines environmental law from a range of perspectives, emphasising the policy world from which environmental law is drawn and nourished. Those working within the discipline of environmental law need to engage with concepts and methods employed by disciplines other than law. The authors analyse the ways in which legal activities are supported and legitimated by work in traditional scientific or technical domains, as well as by certain more obscure but also influential cultural or philosophical assumptions. A range of regulatory techniques is explored in this book, through a close examination of both pollution control and land use. The highly complex nature of current environmental problems, demanding sophisticated and responsive legal controls, is illustrated by several in-depth case studies, including legal and policy analysis of the highly contested issues of genetically modified organisms and renewable energy projects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Environmental impact analysis
ISBN : OCLC:896073638

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Environmental Assessment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Euston Quah,Renate Schubert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811592861

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Sustainability and Environmental Decision Making by Euston Quah,Renate Schubert Pdf

The primary aim of this reference volume is to provide an accessible and comprehensive review of current methods used to address resource evaluation and environmental as well as climate issues, and in a manner easily understood by decision-makers and the non-economists interested in environmental policy matters. Theoretical insight and empirical observations from various countries will be presented and recommendations on sustainable environmental decision-making will be given. Natural resource managers, environmental and climate decision-makers, government policy makers, and economics scholars will all find this volume to be an essential reference.

Author : Richard J. Lazarus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226695594

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The Making of Environmental Law by Richard J. Lazarus Pdf

An updated and passionate second edition of a foundational book. How did environmental law first emerge in the United States? Why has it evolved in the ways that it has? And what are the unique challenges inherent to environmental lawmaking in general and in the United States in particular? Since its first edition, The Making of Environmental Law has been foundational to our understanding of these questions. For the second edition, Richard J. Lazarus returns to his landmark book and takes stock of developments over the last two decades. Drawing on many years of experience on the frontlines of legal and policy battles, Lazarus provides a theoretical overview of the challenges that environmental protection poses for lawmaking, related to both the distinctive features of US lawmaking institutions and the spatial and temporal dimensions of ecological change. The book explains why environmental law emerged in the manner and form that it did in the 1970s and traces how it developed over sequent decades through key laws and controversies. New chapters, composing more than half of the second edition, examine a host of recent developments. These include how Congress dropped out of environmental lawmaking in the early twenty-first century; the shifting role of the judiciary; long-overdue efforts to provide environmental justice to disadvantaged communities; and the destabilization of environmental law that has resulted from the election of Presidents with dramatically clashing environmental policies. As the nation’s partisan divide has grown deeper and the challenge of climate change has dramatically raised the perceived stakes for opposing interests, environmental law is facing its greatest challenges yet. This book is essential reading for understanding where we have been and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead.

Author : Mary O'Brien,Environmental Research Foundation (Annapolis, Md.)
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262650533

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Making Better Environmental Decisions by Mary O'Brien,Environmental Research Foundation (Annapolis, Md.) Pdf

This work recommends a simple yet profound shift to another decision-making technique: alternatives assessment. Instead of asking how much of a hazardous activity is safe, alternatives assessment asks how we can avoid or minimize damage.