1st Edition

Taking Stock of Environmental Assessment Law, Policy and Practice

Edited By Jane Holder, Donald McGillivray Copyright 2008
304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

This edited collection analyzes the appropriate balance between conservation and development and the place for participation and popular protest in environmental assessment. Examining the relationship between law, environmental governance and the regulation of decision-making, this volume takes a reflective and contextual approach, using wide range of theories, to explore the key features of... Read more

1. Taking Stock Jane Holder and Donald McGillivray  2. Environmental Assessment: Dominant or Dormant? Carys Jones, Stephen Jay, Paul Slinn and Christopher Wood  3. NEPA and the Curious Evolution of Environmental Impact Assessment in the United States Bradley C. Karkkainen  4. Better Regulation in Europe Jonathan B. Wiener  5. The Development of Environmental Assessment at the Level of the European Union Ludwig Kramer  6. Substance and Procedure under the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive and the Water Framework Directive William Howarth  7. Access to Justice and the EIA Directive: The Implications of the Aarhus Convention Aine Ryall  8. Bringing Environmental Assessment into the Digital Age Daniel A. Farber  9. The Prospects for Ecological Impact Assessment Jane Holder

 

Biography

Dr Jane Holder, Reader in Environmental Law, Faculty of Laws, University College London, is a member of the Centre for Law and the Environment, UCL and co-editor of Current Legal Problems.

Donald McGillivray, Senior Lecturer, Kent Law School, University of Kent, lectures in environmental law and is case analysis editor for the Journal of Environmental Law.

"...this collection can be warmly welcomed as an important contribution to the ongoing analysis of the EA process. It is refreshing in that it includes but also departs from a narrow legal analysis of legal framework and draws considerably on the reflections of those experienced in the daily business of policy development." - Sharon Turner, Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 20 no. 2 (June 2008)