Environmental and energy law 39 results

L'ouvrage interroge sur les choix de sociétés qui impliquent les générations présentes et futures. Il permet d’appréhender les négociations climatiques sous l’angle des enjeux fondamentaux d’équité et de responsabilité.

Concentrating solely on shale gas, this book is structured around five themes, namely an overview and introduction to shale gas activities, shale gas economics and energy security, access to shale gas resources, shale gas law and regulation, and the future of shale gas.

Biofuels are promoted as a type of renewable energy from biomass that replaces fossil fuels in transportation, in an attempt to achieve the three-fold objectives of energy security, rural development, and GHG emission reductions.

As the world’s population grows and the demands for natural resources increase, protected areas are becoming more important, but also more threatened. On the one hand, conservation of protected areas can contribute to the safeguarding of human rights; on the other hand, neglecting human rights can be a trigger for the mismanagement and destruction of protected areas. How can an objective and systematic approach be used to balance human rights protection and the conservation of protected areas?

This book offers a selection of the contributions presented at the EELF Conference.

This book examines the legal frameworks applying to offshore grid development under international law, European Union law and national law. It reveals that these legal frameworks have not been developed to facilitate such complex (cross-border) infrastructure.

This book contains the latest update of international and regional instruments with respect to prevention and compensation of transboundary damage caused by pipelines.

The book presents a proposal for a harmonised European liability regime and discusses possibilities to enhance the feasibility of such a reform. It calls for a stronger involvement of the public in the nuclear sector and emphasises the intrinsic link between effective safety regulation and liability and compensation mechanisms.

There is an increasing debate on the way in which the EU has developed and what it must look like in the future. This debate includes a discussion on one of the core aspects of European integration: at which level should the rules be set and who decides where the authority to do so should lie? Private law has an important role to play in this discussion. Many private law rules touch on the core of the internal market as they serve to foster trade or to offer protection to market participants, such as consumers.

The Interlaw book on Renewable Energy is a comprehensive overview of renewable energy policies and developments in the major countries active in the field.

The book focuses on the legal issues arising from the implementation by the national courts of the provisions relating to Natura 2000, in order to assess the contribution of the judge to the effectiveness of this regime.

Analyse de la contribution des droits de propriété ou d’usage et des instruments économiques comme alternative et/ou complément à la réglementation afin d’assurer la gestion durable des ressources agricoles et forestières.

In this book Hannah Kruimer analyses the application of the legal principle of non-discrimination in the context of energy network operation.

This fourth volume of the ELRF book “EU Energy Law and Policy Issues”presents an overview of some of the most recent developments taking place in the EU energy law and policy sector.

This book focuses on the damage to private natural resources which have an ecological value in excess of their market value and the damage to public natural resources. Its aim is to design a compensation system, taking into account the interaction between regulation, liability rules and compensation mechanisms, to both prevent and compensate for ecological damage.

The energy and climate change challenge is one of the greatest tests which the EU and its Member States are facing. The need to deliver the triple objectives of the EU’s energy policy, namely a competitive, secure and sustainable energy supply, is stronger than ever. This book analyses whether the current EU regulatory framework for energy law and policy suffices to address the triple objectives of the EU’s energy policy, or by contrast, whether changes to that framework are needed.

The European Energy Law Report IX presents an overview of the most important legal developments in the field of EU and national energy and climate change law as discussed at the 24th European Energy Law Seminar in 2011.

This book examines the question why – from an economic perspective – society should enforce certain violations through criminal law, while others through private or administrative law.

This third volume of EU Energy Law and Policy Issues presents an overview of some of the most recent developments taking place in the EU energy sector at a time when the Third Energy Package is likely to be or has been implemented in the EU Member States. In this respect, the reader will find a number of contributions which offer detailed and critical views on some of the main issues tackled by the Third Energy Package