Environmental Protection: Text and MaterialsCambridge University Press, 1997 - 489 pages This book provides a stimulating introduction to an area of law which is rapidly developing and is becoming more important within the UK legal system and EC and international law. It adopts a broad perspective in describing the present legal framework and in examining the evolution of the distinctive legal techniques of this subject. |
Contents
Environmental law in context | 3 |
Nature and the environment | 25 |
Spacial scales | 34 |
How we live | 40 |
industrial activities and early | 47 |
Scope and limitations of the common law | 54 |
Legislation and control of industrial activities | 61 |
Cambridge Water Company v Eastern | 67 |
Buying the green lifestyle | 338 |
postmaterialism | 346 |
Legal radicalism | 353 |
farming for environmental protection | 361 |
proactive law | 373 |
Conclusion | 384 |
Environmental assessment in law and practice | 394 |
Environmental assessment in the UK | 400 |
early land use | 82 |
Countryside protection | 100 |
Conclusions | 113 |
International initiatives | 123 |
Evolution of the concept of sustainable development | 132 |
The contradictions of sustainable development | 142 |
Linkage between sustainable development and the precautionary | 154 |
The development of environmental law in | 165 |
Policy making | 173 |
Legal and policy framework | 179 |
A case of selective implementation | 189 |
Lappel Bank | 204 |
the development of pollution controls | 215 |
Control of smoke | 221 |
Public participation | 234 |
Conclusion | 240 |
Planning for environmental protection | 266 |
Control of land use in the countryside | 285 |
Conclusion | 296 |
Economic instruments | 306 |
Oblique regulation | 322 |
So what is going on here? | 418 |
conservation and designation 1 Introduction | 422 |
Loch Druidibeg | 425 |
Nature conservation | 427 |
Designation | 430 |
The post war conservation project | 431 |
National Nature Reserves in Scotland | 434 |
The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 | 436 |
Establishment of the reserve | 439 |
International law | 440 |
b Designation as a Biosphere Reserve | 449 |
c Designation as a Geological Conservation Review Site | 450 |
European Community Law | 452 |
b Designation as a Special Area of Conservation | 454 |
Agricultural designations | 457 |
Crofting and rare species | 461 |
Epilogue Environmental justice | 465 |
Bibliography | 467 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Environmental Protection: Text and Materials Law in Context |
| Authors | Sue Elworthy, Jane Holder |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0406037701, 9780406037701 |
| Length | 489 pages |
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