All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials provides students with a deep understanding of environmental law while also encouraging critical reflection of legal reasoning and pointing out areas of controversy and debate. The authors present a wide range of extracts from UK, EU, and international cases, legislation, and articles to help support learning and demonstrate both how the law works in practice and how it should or could work, clearly guiding students through key areas while providing insightful explanations and analysis. Topics have been carefully selected to support a wide range of environmental law courses, within law school and beyond. These include pollution control, nature conservation, climate change regulation, town planning, and water regulation, all incorporating aspects of law from local, UK, EU and international legal cultures. With its unique combination of extracts and author discussion, this new edition provides a wide-ranging, stimulating, and fresh approach to environmental law, which can be relied upon throughout your course and career. This book is also accompanied by an Online Resource Centre that features updates to the law, further reading suggestions, and useful weblinks.
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Elizabeth Fisher, Bettina Lange, and Eloise Scotford
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Stuart Bell, Donald McGillivray, Ole Pedersen, Emma Lees, and Elen Stokes
Trusted by generations of students and academics alike, Environmental Law continues to provide, in its ninth edition, broad and comprehensive coverage of the key topics taught on most environmental law courses, explaining the subject in its social and political context, and considering both UK, EU, and international perspectives. Known for its clear structure and systematic approach, the book considers topics by theme and by sector, allowing more experienced readers to explore the intricacies of the subject while also providing a logical introduction for those new to environmental law or without a legal background. A clear and easy-to-understand writing style helps ensure readers are informed yet not overwhelmed, while useful diagrams and tables help to explain complex points. The new edition also features case studies, information boxes, and self-test questions to help draw out key points and consolidate your learning in preparation for assessments and further research. New to this edition are: discussions of the potential impact of Brexit on UK environmental law; an additional chapter discussing the regulation of new technologies, such as ‘fracking’; coverage of important cases such as Coventry v. Lawrence on nuisance, Walton, Champion, and the HS2 decision on environmental assessment, the ClientEarth air pollution litigation and the ICJ’s decision in Costa Rica v. Nicaragua; analysis of the Paris Agreement and other recent climate change developments; analysis of the new EIA Directive; discussion on the new sentencing guidelines; and enhanced coverage of the latest developments in respect to costs of litigation and the role of courts, the Aarhus Convention, and environmental rights.
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Stuart Bell, Donald McGillivray, Ole Pedersen, Emma Lees, and Elen Stokes
Trusted by generations of students and academics alike, Environmental Law continues to provide, in its tenth edition, broad and comprehensive coverage of the key topics taught on most environmental law courses, explaining the subject in its wider context, and considering both UK and international perspectives and the continuing relevance of EU environmental law. Known for its clear structure and systematic approach, the book considers topics by theme and by sector, allowing more experienced readers to explore the intricacies of the subject while also providing a logical introduction for those new to environmental law or without a legal background. A clear and easy-to-understand writing style helps ensure readers are informed yet not overwhelmed, while useful diagrams and tables help to explain complex points. The new edition also features case studies, information boxes, and self-test questions to help draw out key points and consolidate your learning in preparation for assessments and further research. New to this edition are, amongst other things: discussions of the impact of Brexit on UK environmental law, including the Environment Act 2021 and the creation of the Office for Environmental Protection, as well as the increasing scope for divergence of environmental law across the UK administrations; major revisions to coverage of waste law to consider the role of law in a circular economy; coverage of important cases such as Fearn v Tate Gallery on nuisance, Finch on environmental assessment and indirect climate effects, further ClientEarth air pollution litigation; Coöperatie Mobilisation (the EU Habitats Directive and nutrient neutrality); and analysis of the new ‘net zero’ duty under the Climate Change Act 2008, legal challenges to how this is being implemented, and other recent climate change developments such as the effect of the effect of the Paris Climate Agreement in national decision-making (Friends of the Earth v Heathrow Airport).
