A Reader in Environmental Law
Published on 1. April 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
426 pages
978-0-19-876549-3 (ISBN)
Description
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the environment and in environmental law, trends which have been reflected in academic work. This reader considers a cross-section of socio-legal work on environmental law, tracing its development over the past twenty years. It includes work from a variety of disciplines, theoretical perspectives and from an international scholarship. It aims to give a taste of the breadth and development of socio-legal approaches to one of the most important regulatory regimes in the western industrialised world the regulation of the environment. The readings encompass various legal approaches to environmental protection, alternatives to the law, and both domestic and supra-national issues. They also consider broader themes such as the interaction of law and science and the effects of criminalizing environmental offences, and indicate areas which future research could usefully address.
Reviews / Votes
Breadth of approach is reflected in the selection of the material... a series of readings which represent the development over 20 years or so of socio-legal analysis of environmental law - this itself being persuasively portrayed by Dr. Hutter in her introductory essay on the issue... this offering from Oxford University Press is a timely and useful bringing together of major socio-legal statements on the law. It deserves its place on academic bokshelves - and certainly on those of postgraduate students keen to broaden their initial doctrinal understanding of the law. * David J. Hughes, Environmental Law Review *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
601 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-876549-3 (9780198765493)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Bridget M. Hutter is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Content
Introduction: Socio-Legal Perspectives on Environmental Law: An Overview ; PART I : THEORETICAL APPROACHES ; 1. Economics and the Environment: A Study of Private Nuisance ; 2. Structural Bias in Regulatory Law Enforcement: The Case of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ; PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND SCIENCE ; 3. Holes in the Ozone Layer: A Global Environmental Controversy ; 4. Cross-National Differences in Policy Implementation ; PART III : GOVERNMENT REGULATION: IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT ; 5. Compliance Strategy ; 6. The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation: Towards a Unifying Framework ; 7. Can Social Science Explain Organizational Non-Compliance with Environmental Law? ; PART IV : ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ; 8. Regulation and In-Company Environmental Management in the Netherlands ; 9. Green Markets: Environmental Regulation by the Private Sector ; 10. Designing Smart Regulation ; PART V : INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ; 11. Sleeping with an Elephant: The American Influence on Canadian Environmental Policy ; 12. Towards a New Conception of the Environmental Competitiveness Relationship