Environmental Protection: Text and Materials

Sue Elworthy, Jane Holder

Cambridge University Press, 1997 - Law - 489 pages

This book provides a stimulating introduction to an area of law which is rapidly developing and is becoming more important within the UK legal system and EC and international law. It adopts a broad perspective in describing the present legal framework and in examining the evolution of the distinctive legal techniques of this subject.

Contents

• Environmental law in context: 3
• Nature and the environment: 25
• Spacial scales: 34
• How we live: 40
• industrial activities and early: 47
• Scope and limitations of the common law: 54
• Legislation and control of industrial activities: 61
• Cambridge Water Company v Eastern: 67
• early land use: 82
• Countryside protection: 100
• Conclusions: 113
• International initiatives: 123
• Evolution of the concept of sustainable development: 132
• The contradictions of sustainable development: 142
• Linkage between sustainable development and the precautionary: 154
• The development of environmental law in: 165
• Policy making: 173
• Legal and policy framework: 179
• A case of selective implementation: 189
• Lappel Bank: 200
• the development of pollution controls: 215
• the expansion of: 223
• Public participation: 234
• 8: 240
• Town planning: 247
• Planning for environmental protection: 266
• a Countryside designation: 286
• b European designations: 293
• Alternative environmental protection: 299
• Economic instruments: 320
• Oblique regulation: 322
• Buying the green lifestyle: 338
• postmaterialism: 346
• Legal radicalism: 353
• farming for environmental protection: 361
• proactive law: 373
• Conclusion: 384
• Environmental assessment in law and practice: 394
• Environmental assessment in the UK: 400
• So what is going on here?: 418
• conservation and designation 1 Introduction: 422
• Loch Druidibeg: 425
• Nature conservation: 427
• Designation: 430
• The post war conservation project: 431
• National Nature Reserves in Scotland: 434
• The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949: 436
• Establishment of the reserve: 439
• International law: 440
• b Designation as a Biosphere Reserve: 449
• c Designation as a Geological Conservation Review Site: 450
• European Community Law: 452
• b Designation as a Special Area of Conservation: 454
• Agricultural designations: 457
• Crofting and rare species: 461
• Epilogue Environmental justice: 465
• Bibliography: 467
• 285: 477

Bibliographic information

• Title: Environmental Protection: Text and Materials; Law in Context
• Authors: Sue Elworthy, Jane Holder
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0406037701, 9780406037701
• Length: 489 pages
• Subjects: Law / Environmental; Law / General; Law / International; Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General