Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials, 2nd Edition

• Brand new up-to-date text from three experienced academics which provides a modern approach to this fast-paced area
• Combines carefully selected extracts with insightful author commentary and analysis, providing thought-provoking context for this area of the law and its development
• Takes a thorough and detailed approach to the subject, providing a comprehensive and reliable guide which will support you throughout your course
• Covers the key topics taught on most environmental law programmes and includes comparative chapters on both EU and international environmental law
• Includes further reading suggestions and topical questions to help you to engage critically with the materials and to support independent research ahead of essay and assessment preparation

This new title in the popular Text, Cases, and Materials series provides students with a thorough understanding of environmental law while also encouraging critical reflection and pointing out areas of controversy and debate. The authors present an impressive range of extracts from UK and international cases, legislation, and articles, to help support learning and demonstrate how the law works in practice, clearly guiding students through key areas while providing insightful explanations and analysis. 

Topics have been carefully selected to support a wide range of environmental law courses and include pollution, conservation, town planning, and water regulation as well as considering environmental law in relation to the EU and from an international perspective. 

With its unique combination of extracts and author discussion, this new text provides a comprehensive and convenient guide to environmental law which can be relied upon throughout your course and career. 

This book is also accompanied by an Online Resource Centre which features updates to the law, further reading suggestions and useful weblinks.

Readership: Students studying environmental law as part of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree programme and academics and practitioners working in this sector. This book may also be of use to those studying or working in areas relating to environmental studies.