The Right to a Healthy Environment

The Right to a Healthy Environment
Author: David R. Boyd
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-10-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774824158

Canada has abundant natural wealth -- beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the worst environmental records in the industrialized world. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd, one of Canada’s leading environmental lawyers, describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada’s green record. The overwhelming majority of the world’s nations now recognize environmental rights through laws, constitutions, treaties, or court decisions. Boyd explores Canada’s history of failed efforts to do the same within this international context and offers three pathways to constitutional recognition of the right to a healthy environment. This important and provocative book provides a blueprint for renewed leadership in protecting human health, the well-being of the planet, and the interests of future generations.

Emergency Response Guidebook

Emergency Response Guidebook
Author: U.S. Department of Transportation
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-06-03
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1626363765

Does the identification number 60 indicate a toxic substance or a flammable solid, in the molten state at an elevated temperature? Does the identification number 1035 indicate ethane or butane? What is the difference between natural gas transmission pipelines and natural gas distribution pipelines? If you came upon an overturned truck on the highway that was leaking, would you be able to identify if it was hazardous and know what steps to take? Questions like these and more are answered in the Emergency Response Guidebook. Learn how to identify symbols for and vehicles carrying toxic, flammable, explosive, radioactive, or otherwise harmful substances and how to respond once an incident involving those substances has been identified. Always be prepared in situations that are unfamiliar and dangerous and know how to rectify them. Keeping this guide around at all times will ensure that, if you were to come upon a transportation situation involving hazardous substances or dangerous goods, you will be able to help keep others and yourself out of danger. With color-coded pages for quick and easy reference, this is the official manual used by first responders in the United States and Canada for transportation incidents involving dangerous goods or hazardous materials.

Arctic Legal Regime for Environmental Protection

Arctic Legal Regime for Environmental Protection
Author: Linda Nowlan
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2001
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9782831706375

For many years, concerns have been expressed about environmental issues in the Arctic. While the Arctic region, unlike Antarctica, has been inhabited for thousands of years, it is under unique threat because of its vulnerability toward resource exploitation and the deposition of various airborne pollutants. With its varied populations, and with eight Nations asserting territorial interests, the Arctic needs a careful approach to its protection and development. This report describes the current Arctic environmental legal regime. It also discusses the possibility of negotiating a sustainability treaty for the Arctic with high standards of environmental protection similar to those in the 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. It is hoped that this review of the legal and policy contrasts between the Arctic and Antarctic can help in the consideration of future directions for the Arctic legal regime.

Environmental Law

Environmental Law
Author: Doelle & Tollefson
Publisher: Thomson Carswell
Total Pages: 840
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Environmental law
ISBN: 9780779854950

This second edition includes significant new material and analysis on a variety of important topics including the constitutional division of powers, the Smith v. Inco litigation, recent Fisheries Act and Canadian Environmental Assessment Act reforms, emerging Species At Risk Act caselaw, and developments in climate change and carbon law."--pub. desc.

Inside the Minds

Inside the Minds
Author: Aspatore Books
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2004
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Inside the Minds: The Art & Science of Environmental Law is an authoritative, insider's perspective on the laws which govern the environment, the essential capabilities of the successful practitioner, and the future of this legal discipline, on a global scale. Featuring Department Heads, Group Chairs, and Leading Partners, all representing some of thenation's top firms, this book provides a broad, yet comprehensive overview of the practice area, discussing the current shape and future state of environmental regulation, from the founding doctrines, to the pivotal casesof today. With a detailed explanation of the governing statutes of environmental law and key strategies for success, addressing the most important issues facing the environment today, these authorities offer practical and adaptable strategies for any organization to achieve trueenvironmental awareness. From the steps involved in counseling clients and handling negotiations, to tactics around keeping up to date with the latesttechnological advances and ever changing laws, these authors articulate the finer points around environmental law now, and what will hold true into the future. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectivespresented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today as experts offer up their thoughts around the keys to success within this fascinating practice area.

Misplaced Distrust

Misplaced Distrust
Author: Éric Montpetit
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774840641

Citizens of industrialized countries largely share a sense that national and international governance is inadequate, believing not only that public authorities are incapable of making the right policy decisions, but also that the entire network of state and civil society actors responsible for the discussion, negotiation, and implementation of policy choices is untrustworthy. Using agro-environmental policy development in France, the United States, and Canada as case studies, ric Montpetit sets out to investigate the validity of this distrust through careful attention to the performance of the relevant policy networks. He concludes that distrust in policy networks is, for the most part, misplaced because high levels of performance by policy networks are more common than many political analysts and citizens expect.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Author:
Publisher: World Business Pub.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Business enterprises
ISBN: 9781569735688

The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard helps companies and other organizations to identify, calculate, and report GHG emissions. It is designed to set the standard for accurate, complete, consistent, relevant and transparent accounting and reporting of GHG emissions.