Environmental Principles: From Political Slogans to Legal RulesOxford University Press, 2020 M10 30 - 640 pages 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 industrial society but the new generation of risks have required a new set of environmental principles, emerging from a combination of public fears, science, ethics, and established legal practice. This book shows how three of the most important principles of modern environmental law grew out of this new age of ecological risk: the polluter pays principle, the preventive principle, and the precautionary principle. Since the first edition was published, the principles of polluter-pays, prevention, and precaution have been encapsulated in a swathe of legislation at domestic and international level. Courts have been invoking environmental law principles in a broad range of cases, on issues including GMOs, conservation, investment, waste, and climate change. As a result, more States are paying heed to these principles as catalysts for improving their environmental laws and regulations. This edition will integrate to a greater extent the relationship between environmental principles and human rights. The book analyses new developments including the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, which has continuously carved out environmental duties from a number of rights enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights, and the implementation of the UNECE Convention on Access to Information. |
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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93–94n.52, 100n.108. EUROPEAN UNION COURTS Court of Justice of the European Union 1973 Case 9/73, Schlüter [1973] C:1972:45. 1976 . . . Case 59/75, Manghera [1976] C:1976:14 ...
... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93–94n.52, 100n.108. EUROPEAN UNION COURTS Court of Justice of the European Union 1973 Case 9/73, Schlüter [1973] C:1972:45. 1976 . . . Case 59/75, Manghera [1976] C:1976:14 ...
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... Court of Justice CJEU, Opinion 2/00 of 6 December 2001 on the legal basis of the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol [2001] ... Court 1995 Case T- 585/ 93, Stichting Greenpeace International v Commission [1995] T:1995:147 ...
... Court of Justice CJEU, Opinion 2/00 of 6 December 2001 on the legal basis of the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol [2001] ... Court 1995 Case T- 585/ 93, Stichting Greenpeace International v Commission [1995] T:1995:147 ...
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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208n.400 NATIONAL COURTS Australia High Court of Australia The Commonwealth of Australia v State of Tasmania [1983] HCA 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1n.4 Federal court AJKA v AFMA [2001] ATAA 258 ...
... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208n.400 NATIONAL COURTS Australia High Court of Australia The Commonwealth of Australia v State of Tasmania [1983] HCA 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1n.4 Federal court AJKA v AFMA [2001] ATAA 258 ...
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... Court (Cour constitutionnelle) CCt, 12 March 1992, no. 16/1992. . CCt, 3 June 1993, no. 41/1993. . . . . CCt, 3 June 1993, no. 41/93. . . . . . . CCt, 25 April 1995, no. 35/1995. . . . CCt, 14 July 1997, no. 42/1997. . . . . CCt, 15 ...
... Court (Cour constitutionnelle) CCt, 12 March 1992, no. 16/1992. . CCt, 3 June 1993, no. 41/1993. . . . . CCt, 3 June 1993, no. 41/93. . . . . . . CCt, 25 April 1995, no. 35/1995. . . . CCt, 14 July 1997, no. 42/1997. . . . . CCt, 15 ...
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... Court of cassation (Cour de cassation) Cass. fr., 19 March 1947 ... Court (Cour d'appel) CA, Paris, 19 March 1979. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76n.184 CA, Toulouse, 22 ...
... Court of cassation (Cour de cassation) Cass. fr., 19 March 1947 ... Court (Cour d'appel) CA, Paris, 19 March 1979. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76n.184 CA, Toulouse, 22 ...
Contents
14 | |
PART I | 21 |
Part I Conclusions | 363 |
PART II | 365 |
Part II Conclusions | 519 |
Final Conclusions | 523 |
Index | 529 |
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