German Environmental Law for Practitioners

German Environmental Law for Practitioners
Author: Horst Schlemminger
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 866
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9041122818

Environmental Law for Practitioners is an invaluable, practice-related introduction to environmental law in Germany, written by specialist legal advisers with extensive experience in the practical application of environmental law. This wholly revised second edition takes account of recent developments in rapidly changing environmental legislation and case-law. It is essential reading for foreign investors as well as providing swift, ready access to legal provisions and terms in both German and English. The book comprises an English description of environmental law in Germany and a bilingual compilation of the most important environmental statute texts. After a brief introduction to German environmental law and a short discussion of the legal bases and principles, fundamental aspects of significant interest to foreign investors are examined. The regulation of environmentally relevant activities is explained in a clear, concise way. Responsibility for residual pollution is discussed in detail. The book also provides a clear overview of both environmental private law and environmental criminal law, focussing on new developments relevant to investors and outlining recent trends in environmental litigation. In addition, environmental levies and their practical application as a formative instrument of environmental policy are described. The relationship between environmental law and contract is also explored. Finally, the authors look at environmental management systems and access to environmental information. The bilingual statute texts make vital legislation on the pollution and protection of the environment available to advisers and investors alike.

German Environmental Law for Practitioners

German Environmental Law for Practitioners
Author: Horst Schlemminger
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Total Pages: 742
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789065448323

This book provides a description of German environmental law and provides the statutory texts in both the original German language and an English translation. It informs the reader of practice related problems and helps to overcome the language barriers. The book is meant for all those involved with decisions concerning the environment in a legal context. Neither environmental pollution nor the protection of the environment stop at individual national borders. Many international business organisations operating in Germany have to take the protection of the environment into account in their investment decisions. Foreign countries have a particular interest in German environmental law which, in an international context, is of a very high standard. This book emphasises those areas where German environmental law has special practical effects.

Implementing International Environmental Law in Germany and China

Implementing International Environmental Law in Germany and China
Author: Tao Zhenghua
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2001-08-07
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Although all States agree that sustainable development must be provided for at the international level, it is still impossible to foresee which environmental problems are to be dealt with by the community of States rather than by States individually. The all-important debate over the development of specific measures enforceable under international law is just beginning. This book takes a major step in the progress of that debate toward a genuine global commitment to the protection of the earth and of future generations. The essays in this book represent a remarkable confluence of expert scholarly opinion on this vital subject in two of the world's most populous and powerful countries. The outcome of a symposium in Beijing in September 1999, organised jointly by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the German Research Association, the book emphasizes the urgent need for international cooperation without losing sight of the inevitable restrictions on State sovereignty inherent in solving environmental problems. The authors demonstrate that research activities should concentrate on new forms of compliance control and compliance assistance, and on the improvement of public awareness and participation, before attempting to "lay down the law" in this complex and crucial area. This is an important work for all practitioners, policymakers, academics, and researchers in any aspect of environmental studies. It points a way into the future that overcomes a number of the obstacles that impede the timely development of environmental security.

Environmental Law Across Cultures

Environmental Law Across Cultures
Author: Kirk W. Junker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-12-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0429673639

This book provides a practical, functional comparison among various institutions, tools, implementation practices and norms in environmental law across legal cultures. This is a new approach that focuses on the act of comparison, looking at legal practice, from the ground up, including the perspective of citizens. Most literature on comparative environmental law either focuses on a two-way comparison of state jurisdictions or simply juxtaposes environmental features of two or more state jurisdictions without engaging in any analysis of the comparison. However, this book treats legal cultures as the objects of comparison as it provides practical comparisons among various institutions, tools and norms in environmental law. The arrangement and organisation of the material reverses the more traditional presentation of comparative environmental law as a series of countries within which separate descriptions are respectively presented. In this book the reader is presented with environmental legal themes, with examples and case studies drawn from various cultures that are compared in order to help understand the theme. Case studies draw on the authors’ experiences in a range of legal cultures, including in Australia, Brazil, China, Chile, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Nigeria, Slovakia, and the USA. The comparative nature of the book allows domestic professionals to develop skills to enable them to understand and advocate broader contexts for clients, and helps students become more aware of specific legal systems while questioning why their own system functions (or does not function) as it does. The book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of environmental law as well as researchers and practitioners.

German Environmental Law:Basic Texts and Introduction

German Environmental Law:Basic Texts and Introduction
Author: Germany
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1994-09-28
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This text addresses scholars, lawmakers, administrators, investors, and protectionists from outside Germany who do not read German but wish to have access to the sources of German environmental law. The major law texts concerning nature conservation, air quality control, water protection, waste management, road planning, environmental impact assessment and environmental liability are reproduced. Also included are the Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control, an administrative guideline of practical importance, which is often taken as a point of reference for the construction of industrial plants, even outside Germany. The law texts are accompanied by a case-related introduction to German environmental law. This text outlines German environmental law and reproduces the basic law texts in the English language.

Casebook on EU Environmental Law

Casebook on EU Environmental Law
Author: Ludwig Krämer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2002-08-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847312292

This book comments on fifty key judgments which the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance have given on European Community environmental law. For each judgment,the facts and procedures are described, followed by an extract of the essential parts of the judgment and a commentary which places the judgment in its legal, environmental and political context and develops the lines of reasoning of the Court. The fifty cases selected cover all substantive and procedural aspects of Community environmental law, as regards the provisions of the EC Treaty (cases 1 to 9), horizontal problems (cases 10 to 18), water and air (cases 19 to 25), products and noise (cases 26 to 32), nature protection (cases 33 to 38), waste management (cases 39 to 45) and procedural questions (cases 46 to 50). Particular emphasis is laid on commenting on recent judgments: thus, the oldest case discussed dates from 1991 and 43 of the 50 judgments date from 1996 or later. The book provides a clear insight into the jurisdiction of the European Courts; it will be of particular use to practitioners of national and Community environmental law, researchers, law students and administrators. It is written in a comprehensible style which also makes it a useful tool for non-lawyers who deal with European Community environmental law and policy.