Overview
The EU has emerged as a major source of innovation in environmental governance. This is manifested through the frameworks it is putting in place for environmental governance, and through its position on the world stage for international environmental law. An institutional richness has developed which is sometimes daunting in its complexity but which offers much promise for the future. This volume seeks to give a taste of this, and of the challenges which face the EU in its sustainable development phase.The volume opens with a broad historical overview of the evolution of EU environmental governance. This discussion characterizes the most recent phase as that of sustainable development, in which the political dynamic is one of destabilisation and the preferred instrument of decision-making, the reflexive framework directive. There follows a series of case studies. Ranging from the general to the particular, these cover both the internal and external aspects of EU policy. These include recent key issues in EU environmental law and governance, such as the water framework directive, the new chemicals regime (REACH) and European responses to the challenge of climate change. These case studies engage with key issues in environmental law and governance, including environmental justice, the relationship between trade and environment, and participation in environmental decision-making.
Full Product Details
Author: Joanne Scott (Professor of European Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.529kg
ISBN: 9780199565177
ISBN 10: 0199565171
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 19 February 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This volume contributes effectively to the ever-increasing debate on governance in the EU Antonia Layard, Cardiff Law School, Journal of Environmental Law, 22.1 This volume contributes effectively to the ever-increasing debate on governance in the EU Antonia Layard, Cardiff Law School
This volume contributes effectively to the ever-increasing debate on governance in the EU * Antonia Layard, Cardiff Law School, Journal of Environmental Law, 22.1 * This volume contributes effectively to the ever-increasing debate on governance in the EU * Antonia Layard, Cardiff Law School *
Author Information
Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. She has previously taught at Cambridge, and held visiting positions at Columbia Law School, and Harvard Law School. She is the author of The WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: A Commentary (OUP, 2007).
