Subjects:

Environmental Law

Contents:

PART I: THE OVERALL STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

1. Environmental Law - The Past, Present and Future

2. The Ethical Basis of Environmental Law and its Principles

3. The Players: Bodies Responsible for the Formulation and Implementation of Environmental Policy and Regulation

4. Environmental Law: The International and European Dimension

5. Human Rights and the Environment

6. Civil Liability for Environmental Damage

7. Access to Environmental Information and Environmental Justice

PART II: PROTECTION OF THE LAND

8. The Basic Structure of Planning Control

9. The Use of Land in Rural Areas and Powers to Deal with Derelict Land

10. Access to the Countryside and Public Rights of Way

11. Controversial Uses of Land

12. Genetic Modification Technology and the Environment

13. Mineral Extraction

14. Waste Management

15. Contaminated Land

PART III: LEGAL PROTECTION FOR THE ATMOSPHERE AND INTEGRITED CONTROLS OVER MAJOR POLLUTING ACTIVITIES

16. IPC and IPPC

17. Atmospheric Pollution

18. Noise

PART IV: PROTECTION OF THE AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT

19. Marine Pollution

20. Riverine Pollution

INDEX

Hughes: Environmental Law provides wide-ranging coverage of environmental issues, placing them in their social, political and economic context. It has become well established as a clear account of this rapidly developing area of the law.

This new edition refers to much current environmental legal thinking, setting it in the context of rapidly developing EC and international systems of environmental regulation, as well as updating the reader on other relevant legislation and administrative guidelines.