| Title |
Berkshire encyclopedia of sustainability. Volume 3, The law and politics of sustainability / editors, Klaus Bosselmann, Daniel S. Fogel, J.B. Ruhl. |
| OCLC |
GVRL4603 |
| ISBN |
9781933782560 (electronic book) |
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9781933782140 (print : alk. paper) |
| Publisher |
Great Barrington, Mass. : Berkshire Pub. Group, [2011] |
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©2011 |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 538 pages) : illustrations. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Environmental quality.
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Environmental protection.
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Sustainable development.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Armed conflict and the environment -- Bhopal disaster -- Biotechnology legislation -- Brent Spar -- Brundtland report -- Chemicals legislation and policy -- Chernobyl -- Civil disobedience, environmental -- Clean Air Act -- Clean Water Act -- Climate change disclosure : legal framework -- Climate change mitigation -- Cod Wars (United Kingdom v. Iceland) -- Common heritage of mankind principle -- Convention for the prevention of pollution from ships -- Convention for the Prohibition of Fishing with Long Drift Nets in the South Pacific -- Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea -- Convention on Biological Diversity Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution -- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species -- Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution -- Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants -- Convention on Wetlands -- Convention to Combat Desertification -- Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009 -- Customary international law -- |
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Dark Sky Initiatives -- Development, sustainable : overview of laws and commissions -- Ecolabeling -- Ecological modernization theory -- Ecosystem management -- Eco-terrorism -- Education, environmental law -- Endangered Species Act -- Energy conservation incentives -- Energy subsidies -- Enforcement -- Environmental dispute resolution -- Environmental law : Africa, Saharan -- Environmental law : Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Environmental law : Antarctica -- Environmental law : Arab Region -- Environmental law : Arctic -- Environmental law : Australia and New Zealand -- Environmental law : Central America and the Caribbean -- Environmental law : China -- Environmental law : East Asia -- Environmental law : Europe -- Environmental law : India and Pakistan -- Environmental law : Israel -- Environmental law : Pacific Island Region -- Environmental law : Russia and Central Asia -- Environmental law : South America -- Environmental law : Southeast Asia -- Environmental law : United States and Canada -- |
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Environmental law, soft vs. hard -- European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme -- Exxon Valdez -- Fair trade -- Fishing and whaling legislation -- Forest Reserve Act -- Free trade -- Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Dam case (Hungary v. Slovakia) -- Genetically modified organisms legislation -- Grassroots environmental movements -- Green taxes -- Intergenerational equity -- International Court of Justice -- International Green Construction Code -- International Law -- Investment law, energy -- Investment law, foreign -- Justice, Environmental -- Kyoto protocol -- Lacey Act -- Land use : regulation and zoning -- Law of the sea -- Love Canal -- Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency -- Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer -- MOX Plant case (Ireland v. United Kingdom) -- Nanotechnology legislation -- National Environmental Policy Act -- Natural resources law -- New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act -- Nuisance law -- Ocean zoning -- Polluter pays principle -- Precautionary principle -- |
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Principle-based regulation -- Real property law -- Refugees, Environmental -- Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals -- Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive -- Silent Spring -- Soil conservation legislation -- Tort law -- Trail Smelter arbitration (United States v. Canada) -- Transboundary water law -- United Nations : overview of conventions and agreements -- Utilities regulation -- Waste shipment law -- Water Act (France) -- Water security -- Weak vs. strong sustainability debate -- Wilderness Act -- World constitutionalism. |
| Summary |
Explores efforts made to address pressing environmental concerns through legislation, conventions, directives, treaties, and protocols. |
| General note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Restrictions |
Unlimited user license access |
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