Environmental Law: Text, Cases, and Materials

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Elizabeth Fisher, Bettina Lange and Eloise Scotford 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. Special Features 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. About the Author Elizabeth Fisher is a Reader in Environmental Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford and is General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law. She has written widely on environmental law and related topics and was shortlisted for the OUP Law Teacher of the Year Award in 2011 and winner of the SLS Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2008. Bettina Lange is a Lecturer in Law and Regulation at the University of Oxford. Bettina has written widely on socio-legal aspects of environmental regulation. She teaches courses on environmental law, socio-legal research methods, and regulation. Eloise Scotford is a Lecturer in Law at King's College London. She teaches and convenes environmental law and tort law modules, and also teaches public law. Particular topics of research interest include EU and comparative national approaches to environmental law, the legal roles of environmental principles and the integration (doctrinal and otherwise) of UK environmental law.

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Part 1: The Basics 1. What is Environmental Law? 2. Understanding Environmental Problems Part 2: Charting the Environmental Law Landscape 1 - Legal Cultures 3. Environmental Law in the Legal Culture of the United Kingdom 4. European Union Environmental Law 5. International Environmental Law Part 3: Charting the Environmental Law Landscape 2 - Basic Legal Concepts 6. Private Law 7. Public Law 8. Criminal Liability 9. Statutory Liabilities and Remedies 10. The Role of the Courts 11. Principle and Policy 12. Regulatory Strategy 13. Governance Part 4: Pollution Control 14. Water Pollution 15. Air Pollution and Climate Change 16. Waste Regulation 17. Integrated Pollution Control Part 5: Environmental Law, Environmental Problems, and Land 18. Planning Law 19. Environmental Impact Assessment 20. Nature Conservation 21. The Law Relating to Land Contamination 22. Genetically Modified Organisms