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Contemporary environmental regulation is having to adapt to significant challenges. These challenges come from all directions, including the quest for economic efficiency, popular mistrust of experts and frequent observation of poor practical results. At EU level, criticisms of regulatory activity are accentuated by the significant questions that surround the legitimacy of certain EU institutions and processes. Although it is not suggested that innovation and evolution in EU environmental law are in every case a conscious response to explicit challenges to regulatory authority, this book, examining a range of substantive EU environmental law and policy, considers far-reaching endeavours to improve environmental regulation. One striking feature of contemporary EU environmental law is its wholehearted preoccupation with the structure of decision-making. This development, and some of the serious tensions that arise in the legal conditions for decision-making, forms a major theme of this book.

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.we have been waiting for a long time now for a definitive legal textbook on all EU environmental law in the English common law tradition of legal writing. Maria Lee's book is on the way to being this text.a great book and essential reading for any environmental law student and for anybody else involved in environmental regulation. Yvonne Scannell Journal of Environmental Law September 2006 .perceptive and stimulating.Lee's book should be read by all serious Europeans who study environmental law, and likewise by all those engaged in providing legal commentary or advice.if the European project were in sustainably good order then this book would be required reading across the widest range of policy makers and their advisers. Mark Stallworthy Legal Studies, (25) 2005 .an extremely important contribution to contemporary scholarship on the development of European environmental law.Due to the richness and diversity of material covered, the book will be valuable to environmental law scholars as both a research and teaching aid.many of the issues raised by Lee will continue to influence EU environmental law in the decades to come. Carolyn Abbot Modern Law Review, Vol 69 Sept 2006 Written in an accessible style but without succumbing to simplifications, the book can be warmly recommended to the student with a limited background in EC law, as well as to the experienced reader.a very readable account of the topics likely to be discussed for several years to come. Joakim Zander Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Vol 13, No 1 2006 Maria Lee invites readers of her very detailed...book to take a learned dip into the swirling waters of the challenges facing European environmental decision-making. Agence Europe European Library October 2005

we have been waiting for a long time now for a definitive legal textbook on all EU environmental law in the English common law tradition of legal writing. Maria Lee's book is on the way to being this texta great book and essential reading for any environmental law student and for anybody else involved in environmental regulation. Yvonne ScannellJournal of Environmental LawSeptember 2006perceptive and stimulatingLee's book should be read by all serious Europeans who study environmental law, and likewise by all those engaged in providing legal commentary or adviceif the European project were in sustainably good order then this book would be required reading across the widest range of policy makers and their advisersMark StallworthyLegal Studies, (25)2005an extremely important contribution to contemporary scholarship on the development of European environmental lawDue to the richness and diversity of material covered, the book will be valuable to environmental law scholars as both a research and teaching aidmany of the issues raised by Lee will continue to influence EU environmental law in the decades to come.Carolyn AbbotModern Law Review, Vol 69Sept 2006Written in an accessible style but without succumbing to simplifications, the book can be warmly recommended to the student with a limited background in EC law, as well as to the experienced readera very readable account of the topics likely to be discussed for several years to come..Joakim ZanderMaastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Vol 13, No 12006Maria Lee invites readers of her very detailed...book to take a learned dip into the swirling waters of the challenges facing European environmental decision-making.Agence EuropeEuropean LibraryOctober 2005

...we have been waiting for a long time now for a definitive legal textbook on all EU environmental law in the English common law tradition of legal writing. Maria Lee's book is on the way to being this text...a great book and essential reading for any environmental law student and for anybody else involved in environmental regulation. Yvonne Scannell Journal of Environmental Law September 2006 ...perceptive and stimulating...Lee's book should be read by all serious Europeans who study environmental law, and likewise by all those engaged in providing legal commentary or advice...if the European project were in sustainably good order then this book would be required reading across the widest range of policy makers and their advisers... Mark Stallworthy Legal Studies, (25) 2005 ...an extremely important contribution to contemporary scholarship on the development of European environmental law...Due to the richness and diversity of material covered, the book will be valuable to environmental law scholars as both a research and teaching aid...many of the issues raised by Lee will continue to influence EU environmental law in the decades to come. Carolyn Abbot Modern Law Review, Vol 69 Sept 2006 Written in an accessible style but without succumbing to simplifications, the book can be warmly recommended to the student with a limited background in EC law, as well as to the experienced reader...a very readable account of the topics likely to be discussed for several years to come. Joakim Zander Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Vol 13, No 1 2006 Maria Lee invites readers of her very detailed...book to take a learned dip into the swirling waters of the challenges facing European environmental decision-making. Agence Europe European Library October 2005

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Maria Lee is Professor of Law at University College, London.

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