Legal Aspects of Soil Pollution and Decontamination in the European Union and the United States

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-5095-109-8
Verlag: Intersentia Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 447 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

This book intends to give a general insight into the legal aspects of soil pollution and the decontamination of polluted soil. This topic is dealt with in separate chapters for each EU Member State and the United States. Its intention is to be a stepping stone for further, and deeper, discussions and studies in this area of environmental law. Although being an introduction, this book can be of great importance for practice and educational purposes. It can play a major role in the development of (comparative) environmental law in and outside the European Union and the United States.

The 5 main items of each contribution are:

1.A general introduction, indicating the legal framework of general and specific legislation concerning soil protection, soil pollution and soil decontamination. This general introduction also refers to some actual data about the scope of the problem of soil pollution;
2.The adminstrative law aspects of soil decontamination, with a special focus on the following items: concepts (soil, pollution, historical-new-mixed soil pollution), identification of polluted soil, registration of polluted soil, decontamination of polluted soil (pollution criteria, decontamination goals, persons responsible for decontamination, etc.), soil decontamination procedure, including the possibility of judicial review, and administrative control and enforcement instruments;
3.An elaboration on the civil law liability aspects of soil pollution and decontamination. Here, at least the following themes are highlighted: property law (limitations of use, precautionary measures, expropriation, cession of ownership rights, etc.), tort law (in the case of historical, new or mixed soil pollution cases), and contract law (dealing with conditions regarding the conveyance of polluted sites);
4.An indication of penal law aspects of soil pollution and decontamination, summing up the sanctions against non-compliance with legislative provisions.
5.A summary and conclusion, pointing out some recent and future developments.

In the last chapter the editors make comparative remarks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seerden, René J.G.H.

Deketelaere, Kurt

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Über Autor(innen)

Seerden, René J.G.H.
René (J.G.H.) Seerden is parttime associate professor in (Comparative) Administrative and Environmental Law at Maastricht University. Since 2003, he is Judge in the District Court of Limburg (administrative law, environmental law, asylum and migration law).

René Seerden obtained his law degree (Constitutional and Administrative Law; and Social Security Law) at the University of Utrecht. In 1989-1990 he did a traineeship at the Asser Institute in The Haque and was a fellow at the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh. In 1993 he finished his doctoral thesis on the legal aspects of trans-frontier co-operation between decentralised authorities. He was for a long time responsible for the Master-courses Dutch Environmental Law and International, European and Comparative Environmental Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. In 2002 he was a visiting professor for the course European and Comparative Environmental Law at Capital University Law School (Columbus Ohio).

Deketelaere, Kurt
Kurt Deketelaere is gewoon hoogleraar (deeltijds) milieu-, energie- en bouwrecht aan de KU Leuven, en Visiting Professor of Law aan de University of Helsinki. Hij is tevens secretaris-generaal van deLeague of European Research Universities (LERU) en voorzitter van Sustainability College Bruges (SCB). Bij diverse vennootschappen (VITO, Guberna, enz.) is hij bestuurder.