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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Page vi
... fact and stimulates the debate on innovative modes of legal regulation. The author's method effectively incorporates aspects and approaches emanating from all spheres pertaining to the principles of environmental law, be they legal ...
... fact and stimulates the debate on innovative modes of legal regulation. The author's method effectively incorporates aspects and approaches emanating from all spheres pertaining to the principles of environmental law, be they legal ...
Page vii
... fact that the meaning of general principles is dependent upon the regulatory context within which they operate does not deprive them of their general scope and, consequently, of their legal effects. International law provides for a ...
... fact that the meaning of general principles is dependent upon the regulatory context within which they operate does not deprive them of their general scope and, consequently, of their legal effects. International law provides for a ...
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... fact that different legal systems have recognized almost identical principles in varying ways. What is more, while the principles I discuss in this book are widely enshrined in MEAs and applied by international courts and tribunals, a ...
... fact that different legal systems have recognized almost identical principles in varying ways. What is more, while the principles I discuss in this book are widely enshrined in MEAs and applied by international courts and tribunals, a ...
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... fact, nowadays scholars embrace a swath of environmental principles because law- makers have enshrined them within their statutes and agreements, and courts have been applying them in order to adjudicate hard cases. Both legislation and ...
... fact, nowadays scholars embrace a swath of environmental principles because law- makers have enshrined them within their statutes and agreements, and courts have been applying them in order to adjudicate hard cases. Both legislation and ...
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... fact that they are linked to models of thought that complement one other. This analysis can be extrapolated in order to understand the legal status and function of other environmental principles that are not considered in any depth in ...
... fact that they are linked to models of thought that complement one other. This analysis can be extrapolated in order to understand the legal status and function of other environmental principles that are not considered in any depth in ...
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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