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Environmental Principles: From Political Slogans to Legal Rules
With more states paying heed to environmental principles as catalysts for improving their environmental law, this book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins to their embodiment in enforceable laws. This edition will integrate to a greater extent the relationship between environmental principles and human rights.
Author(s) | By Nicolas de Sadeleer (Professor of EU Law, Jean Marie Chair, Professor of EU Law, Jean Marie Chair, Saint Louis University). |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 592 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 29 Oct 2020 |
Availability | Available |
With more states paying heed to environmental principles as catalysts for improving their environmental law, this book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins to their embodiment in enforceable laws. This edition will integrate to a greater extent the relationship between environmental principles and human rights.
1: General Introduction Part I: The Polluter-Pays, Prevention, and Precautionary Principles: Three Approaches To Environmental Risk 2: Introduction 3: The Polluter-Pays Principle 4: The Principle of Prevention 5: The Precautionary Principle 6: Part
Nicolas de Sadeleer is professor and Jean Marie Chair at Saint-Louis University (Brussels). He is a specialist of EU law (institutions, internal market), environmental law (international and domestic) and comparative law. He is an active commentator on EU