Burnett-Hall on Environmental Law, 2nd Edition

Environmental / Energy Law

Burnett-Hall on Environmental Law, 2nd Edition

Edited by Richard Burnett-Hall · Brian Jones
Sweet & Maxwell U.K. December 2008

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780421748101
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
Publication
December 2008
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

An acclaimed work that has been substantially revised in this new edition, Environmental Law:

  • Provides detailed and authoritative coverage of all the principle areas of environmental law in a single volume
  • Includes reference to all relevant EU legislation and its implications in the UK as well as providing increased coverage of Scotland and Northern Ireland
  • Reflects the rapid development of this area of law
  • Discusses the functions and powers of the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
  • Includes new chapters on economic instruments, climate change, human rights and the contaminated land regime
  • Covers recent developments in the areas of environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment, integrated pollution prevention and control, waste, access to information, genetically modified organisms and pesticides legislation

Table of Contents

  • Sources of environmental law
  • Environmental regulators and their enforcement powers
  • Criminal prosecutions and sentencing
  • Civil liabilities in the context of environmental damage
  • The environmental liability directive
  • Public accountability: public law, public participation and access to information
  • Climate change
  • The planning system and environmental protection
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Nature conservation
  • The water framework directive and water pollution
  • Water abstraction
  • Land drainage, flood defence and coast protection
  • Environmental permitting: the new regime - IPPC and air
  • Waste
  • Contaminated land
  • Statutory nuisance and noise
  • Chemicals and pesticides
  • GMOs
  • Nuclear
  • Environmental issues in transactions
  • Insurance

Reviews

"Overall this is a most impressive feat of scholarship... Well-written and well-referenced, this is a book which specialist practitioners will find of great value." - New Law Journal

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