The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law

This Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law. It examines in detail the methodological foundations of the discipline as well as the substance of environmental law across countries from four vantage points: country studies from all continents, responses to common problems (including air pollution, water management, nature conservation, genetically modified organisms, climate change and energy, chemicals, waste), foundational components of environmental law systems (including principles, property rights, administrative and judicial organisation, command-and-control regulation, market mechanisms, informational techniques and liability mechanisms), and common interactions of environmental protection with the broader public, private, and criminal law contexts. The volume brings together the foremost authorities in this field from around the world to provide a concise, self-contained, and technically rigorous account of environmental law as a single overall system.

1 - Comparative environmental law: Structuring a field
2 - Value in comparative law - 3D Cartography and analytical description
3 - Australia
4 - Brazil
5 - Canada
6 - People's Republic of China
7 - The European Union
8 - France
9 - Germany
10 - India
11 - Indonesia
12 - Japan
13 - Mexico
14 - Singapore
15 - South Africa
16 - South Korea
17 - United Kingdom
18 - United States of America
19 - Atmospheric pollution
20 - Environmental regulation of freshwater
21 - Land degradation
22 - Nature conservation
23 - Regulation of marine-capture fisheries
24 - Genetically modified organisms
25 - Climate change and energy transition policies
26 - Regulation of chemicals
27 - Waste regulation
28 - Contaminated sites
29 - Environmental principles across jurisdictions: Legal connectors and catalysts
30 - Distribution of powers
31 - Property systems and environmental regulation
32 - Regulatory organisation
33 - Sciences, environmental laws, and legal cultures: Fostering collective epistemic responsibilities
34 - Transnational networks
35 - Adjudication systems
36 - Environmental planning
37 - Protection of sites
38 - Command and control standards and cross-jurisdictional harmonization
39 - The assessment of environmental impact
40 - Environmental taxation
41 - Trading schemes
42 - A cartography of environmental education
43 - Informational requirements and environmental protection
44 - Eco-labelling
45 - Environmental liability
46 - A cartography of environmental human rights
47 - Environmental law and constitutional and public law
48 - Environmental law and private law
49 - Environmental law and criminal law
50 - Environmental law in private international law
51 - Environmental law and public international law

Emma Lees is University Lecturer in Environmental and Property Law at University of Cambridge and is the Deputy-Director of the Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EERNG), and a fellow of the Centre for Property Law. She is also a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Jorge E. Viñuales holds the Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge and is the founder and former Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). He is also the Chairman of the Compliance Committee of the UN-ECE/WHO-Europe Protocol on Water and Health, a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre, the Director-General of the Latin American Society of International Law, and an Of Counsel with Lalive. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was the Pictet Chair of International Environmental Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, where he keeps a limited affiliation. Professor Viñuales is also a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.