Environmental Law - Environmental Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by Jon Unruh, Rhodri Williams

   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Discourses of Environmental Law and the Conceptualisation of Climate Change

   By Jo-Ann Goodie

   The complex phenomenon known as ‘the natural environment’ is a product of a variety of discourses. This book explores the emergence of different discourses of the environment – scientific, economic, political, aesthetic, moral and legal discourses – analyzing the simultaneous separateness and...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure

   The Case of PROPER in Indonesia

   By Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, Thomas Sterner

   Series: Environment for Development

   This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution...

   Published March 26th 2013 by RFF Press
4. Adapting to Sea Level Rise in the Coastal Zone

   Law and Policy Considerations

   By Chad J. McGuire

   Comprehensive, but not overly technical, this book provides a legal-policy framework to the discussion of how coastal managers can best approach the problem of sea level rise. It identifies legal barriers and offers proposed solutions to mitigate the impact of those barriers. The book introduces...

   Published March 25th 2013 by CRC Press
5. Transferable Groundwater Rights

   Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics

   By Andreas N. Charalambous

   Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

   The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently. Groundwater would achieve its economic value, by switching from the high volume-low value irrigation, which is...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
6. Emissions, Pollutants and Environmental Policy in China

   Designing a National Emissions Trading System

   By Bo Miao

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   As the world's biggest polluter, the environmental challenges that China faces in controlling its airborne emissions are crucial, not only to its own population in terms of tackling the severe domestic air pollution, but also to the planet as it faces calls from the international community to...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. Balancing between Trade and Risk

   Integrating Legal and Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Marjolein B. A. van Asselt, Esther Versluis, Ellen Vos

   The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation. This book brings together legal and social science research on risk...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Marine Environmental Governance

   From International Law to Local Practice

   By Erika Techera

   Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas. Focusing on small island states, in which indigenous populations have to a large extent continued to maintain...

   Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. International Watercourses Law in the Nile River Basin

   Three States at a Crossroads

   By Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik

   The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.2 million people. The Nile is an essential source of water for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses throughout...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
10. Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology

    Edited by Nigel South, Avi Brisman

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is the most in-depth and comprehensive volume on these issues to date....

    Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge