ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & REGULATION

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-1-84174-114-7
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 222 mm

A systematic explanation of standards in environmental law, together with appropriate case studies covering all the main areas of the environment. It takes account of developments such as the 21st Report of the Royal Commission on Setting Environmental Standards.
Specific environmental standards are analyzed across all the main areas of the environment - water, land and air. The future of environmental standard setting is explained in context of the development of European environmental law. This includes the question of how a regional approach to the environment that is consistent with the principle of subsidiarity, may be pursued. Also included are issues relating to the freedom of information and the interrelationship between human rights and the
environment. Case examples include Genetically Modified Organisms and the BSE crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McEldowney, John F.

McEldowney, Sharron

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Regulatory standards and environmental law; the history of environmental standards; setting standards - how and why?; the regulators and standard setting; scientific techniques in assessing the environmental impacts of pollutants; science, risk assessment and the concept of safety; philosophies underlying risk assessment and standard setting; the legal forms of standard setting; environmental standards and water; environmental standards and land; evaluating the
future of environmental standards and sustainable development.

Über Autor(innen)

John McEldowney is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick. He has written widely in the field of public law and regulation. He is co-author (with Sharron McEldowney) of Law and the Environment. Sharron McEldowney is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology at the University of Westminster. She is the co-editor of the International Journal of Biosciences and the Law and has written widely in the field of science and the
law.