Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law.

Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law.

Environmental principles are elusive concepts in environmental law - their meanings and legal functions are ambiguous, and they have varying histories in different jurisdictions. This book explores the legal understanding of environmental principles.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scotford, Eloise
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
Subjects:
Environmental law.
Environmental policy.
Environmental law > European Union countries.
Environmental law > Australia > New South Wales.
Sustainable development > Law and legislation > Australia > New South Wales.
environmental policy.
Environmental law
Environmental policy
Sustainable development > Law and legislation
European Union countries
New South Wales
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; 1; Principles Principles Everywhere: Making Sense of Environmental Principles as Legal Concepts; I. Introduction; II. Environmental Principles and Their High Profile in Environmental Law; III. Methodology and Scope; IV. Conclusion; 2; Environmental Principles and Environmental Law; I. Introduction; II. Why So Much Principle?; III. Limitations in Appraising Environmental Principles Legally; IV. Conclusion; 3; Legal Contours of Environmental Principles Across Jurisdictions; I. Introduction.
  • II. Environmental Principles in Public International LawIII. Environmental Principles in EU Law; IV. Environmental Principles in NSW Law; V. Conclusion; 4; Environmental Principles in European Union Case Law; I. Introduction; II. The Jurisdiction and Institutional Identity of EU Courts: Reasoning with Environmental Principles in EU Legal Culture; III. Policy Cases; IV. Interpretive Cases; V. Informing Legal Test Cases: Reviewing the Boundaries and Exercise of EU Environmental Competence; VI. Principle of Sustainable Development; VII. Conclusion; 5.
  • Principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development in the New South Wales Land and Environment CourtI. Introduction; II. The NSW Land and Environment Court: A Unique and Doctrinally Novel Legal Setting; III. Mapping the ESD Case Law; IV. Conclusion; 6; Conclusions; I. Environmental Principles and Doctrinal Evolution; II. Environmental Principles in Environmental Law Scholarship; Index.

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