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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815651303321

Titolo

Environmental and energy law / / edited by Karen E. Makuch, Ricardo Pereira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, Massachusetts : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2012

ISBN

1-118-25736-7

1-78539-353-7

1-283-54240-4

9786613854858

1-118-25734-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (677 pages)

Collana

New York Academy of Sciences

Classificazione

519.12

344.04/6

Disciplina

344.04/6

Soggetti

Energy industries - Environmental aspects

Energy industries - Law and legislation

Power resources - Law and legislation

Environmental policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Innovation, sustainability and the law -- pt. 3. Sustainable energy and climate change law -- pt. 4. Exploration and exploitation of energy resources -- pt. 5. Clean technologies and the clean development mechanism -- pt. 6. Waste, water, air quality management and pollution control -- pt. 7. The regulation of chemicals and laboratory safety -- pt. 8. Governance, impact assessment, compliance and enforcement in environmental law -- pt. 9. Case studies on environmental law implementation.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite bringing prosperity, industrialisation generally leads to increasing levels of pollution which has a detrimental impact on the environment. In response, legislation which seeks to control or prevent such impact has become common.  Similarly, climate change and energy security have become major drivers for the regulatory regimes that have emerged in the energy field. Given the global or regional



scope of many environmental problems, international cooperation is often necessary to ensure such legislation is effective. The EU and the UK have contributed to the development of  the environm