Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law
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Biografisk notat
Dr Eloise Scotford is a Senior Lecturer at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, where she teaches and researches in environmental law.... this book is a rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring piece of scholarship. It combines fine-grained critique with big picture commentary to challenge dominant or default views of environmental principles and environmental law more broadly. The book will be of interest not only to scholars and practitioners of environmental law but also to those concerned with public administration and comparative constitutionalism.
- Elen Stokes, Cardiff University, The Modern Law Review
... the book will be of considerable assistance for academics and practitioners of environmental law wanting to understand how certain specific principles have been articulated in the EU and NSW.
- Ipshita Chaturvedi, Chinese Journal of Environmental Law
Environmental principles – from the polluter pays and precautionary principles to the principles of integration and sustainability – proliferate in domestic and international legal and policy discourse, reflecting key goals of environmental protection and sustainable development on which there is apparent political consensus. Environmental principles also have a high profile in environmental law, beyond their popularity as policy and political concepts, as ideas that might unify the subject and provide it with conceptual foundations or boost its delivery of environmental outcomes. However, environmental principles are elusive legal concepts.
This book deepens the legal understanding of environmental principles in light of recent legal developments. It analyses the increasing legal effects of environmental principles in different jurisdictions and demonstrates how they are shaping and revealing innovative and evolving bodies of environmental law. This analysis is a step forward in understanding a key feature of modern environmental law and presents a robust methodology for dealing with novel legal concepts in the subject. It also makes a contribution to environmental policy debates and discussions internationally that rely heavily on environmental principles, including their supposed legal effects.
1. Principles Principles Everywhere: Making Sense of
Environmental Principles as Legal Concepts
I. Introduction
II. Environmental Principles and Their High Profile in Environmental Law
III. Methodology and Scope
IV. Conclusion
2. Environmental Principles and Environmental Law
I. Introduction
II. Why So Much Principle?
III. Limitations in Appraising Environmental Principles Legally
IV. Conclusion
3. Legal Contours of Environmental Principles Across Jurisdictions
I. Introduction
II. Environmental Principles in Public International Law
III. Environmental Principles in EU Law
IV. Environmental Principles in NSW Law
V. Conclusion
4. Environmental Principles in European Union Case Law
I. Introduction
II. The Jurisdiction and Institutional Identity of EU Courts: Reasoning with Environmental
Principles in EU Legal Culture
III. Policy Cases
IV. Interpretive Cases
V. Informing Legal Test Cases: Reviewing the Boundaries and Exercise of EU
Environmental Competence
VI. Principle of Sustainable Development
VII. Conclusion
5. Principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development in the New South Wales Land and Environment Court
I. Introduction
II. The NSW Land and Environment Court: III. Mapping the ESD Case Law
IV. Conclusion
6. Conclusions
I. Environmental Principles and Doctrinal Evolution
II. Environmental Principles in Environmental Law Scholarship