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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... become apparent through reduced rates of ecosystem degradation. Furthermore, at a time when traditional environmental pressures have far from abated, new challenges are constantly arising. According to many scientists, we are on course ...
... become apparent through reduced rates of ecosystem degradation. Furthermore, at a time when traditional environmental pressures have far from abated, new challenges are constantly arising. According to many scientists, we are on course ...
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... become more preventive and slightly more anticipatory. As regards the polluter- pays principle (PPP), environmental taxes and strict liability regimes are still in their infancy. Thirdly, since the first edition of this book ...
... become more preventive and slightly more anticipatory. As regards the polluter- pays principle (PPP), environmental taxes and strict liability regimes are still in their infancy. Thirdly, since the first edition of this book ...
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... become an established concept with normative status in international law, as is exemplified by codification works,47 its incorporation into treaty law, and its recognition within the ICJ's case law. 48 Disparaged or praised, the ...
... become an established concept with normative status in international law, as is exemplified by codification works,47 its incorporation into treaty law, and its recognition within the ICJ's case law. 48 Disparaged or praised, the ...
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... becoming increasingly common and legally relevant throughout international and domestic legal systems.54 As set out in substantive texts, they have become linked to sources of binding law. Accordingly, they are specifically intended to ...
... becoming increasingly common and legally relevant throughout international and domestic legal systems.54 As set out in substantive texts, they have become linked to sources of binding law. Accordingly, they are specifically intended to ...
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... become clear in the course of this book that the concept of risk has developed into the activating concept of modern environmental law. In addition to natural risks, humanity is today exposed to a growing number of risks arising from ...
... become clear in the course of this book that the concept of risk has developed into the activating concept of modern environmental law. In addition to natural risks, humanity is today exposed to a growing number of risks arising from ...
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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Environmental Principles: From Political Slogans to Legal Rules Nicolas de Sadeleer Limited preview - 2002 |
Environmental Principles: From Political Slogans to Legal Rules Nicolas de Sadeleer Limited preview - 2020 |
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