Environmental Protection: Text and Materials

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Cambridge 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.

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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
Oblique regulation
322
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

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
200
the development of pollution controls
215
the expansion of
223
Public participation
234
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240
Town planning
247
Planning for environmental protection
266
a Countryside designation
286
b European designations
293
Alternative environmental protection
299
Economic instruments
320
Environmental assessment in the UK
400
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
285
477
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