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Environmental Law - A Guide to Concepts

Provides detailed yet concise definitions of 84 key environmental law concepts currently in use in common law jurisdictions - particularly Canada and New Zealand.
Publication Language: English
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$215.00
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Published: January 01, 1996
ISBN/ISSN: 9780433398158

Product description

Provides detailed yet concise definitions of 84 key environmental law concepts currently in use in common law jurisdictions - particularly Canada and New Zealand.

Entries are written in a clear, readable style and are accompanied by helpful commentary with footnotes, case references and a list of related terms. A unique feature is a series of charts which place each concept in context - not only within the field of environmental law but within other related disciplines.

 

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Table of contents

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Best Available Technology
Biomagnifications
Blanket Prohibition
Burden and Standard of Proof
Carrying Capacity
Causal Mechanism
Causation
Cause of Action
Command and Control Approach
Contaminated Site Approach
Cradle-to-grave Regulation
Criminalization
Cross-Cultural Analysis
Cumulative Impact
Damage
Deep Ecology
Director's and Officers' Liability
Discounting
Diversity
Division of Power
Due Diligence
Ecofeminism
Ecological Chaos
Ecological Share
Ecology and Ecosystem
Economic Analysis and Externalities
End-of-Pipe Standards
Environment
Environment Assessment
Environment Audit
Environment Bill of Rights
Environment Bottom Line
Environment Impact and Environment Harm
Environment Liability Insurance
Environment Offences
Epidemiology
Epistemological Approach
Equilibrium
Expropriation of Property
Increased Risk
Industrial Equation
Intergenerational Equity
Land Use Planning
Latent Defect
Lender Liability
Management Model
Market Share Liability
Merger
Negligence
Non-Delegable Duties
Nonequilibrium
Nonsignature Disease
Officially Induced Error of Law
Persistence
Political Accountability Model
Polluter Pays Principle
Precautionary Principle
Private Nuisance
Privatization
Procedural Rights Model
Proportional Liability
Public Nuisance
Public Trust
Regulation Resilience
Restoration
Reversed Burden of Proving Causation
Riparian Rights
The Rule in Rylands v. Fletcher
Sick Building Syndrome
Stability
Standing
Statutory Rights
Strict Liability
Substantive Rights Model
Sustainability
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Management
Sustainable Yield
Synergy
Toxic Tort Toxicology
Tragedy of The Commons
Trespass to Land
Whistleblower Protection