Environmental Law for Sustainability: A Reader:. Richardson, Wood<|

Product InformationThe Reader presents critical new scholarship on law for sustainable development. Its contributors provide international and comparative perspectives on the current state of environmental law and its future directions. Aimed at both students and seasoned scholars, from law and wider social science backgrounds, the Reader's chapters go beyond conventional descriptions of environmental law and policy to a theoretical and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of law in sustainable development. The Reader starts from premise that to achieve an ecologically sustainable society, environmental law systems need to be sensitive to a wide array of institutional, social and economic issues and to emerging forms of environmental governance beyond conventional legal regulation. The Reader explores key current issues including future directions in command regulation; changing forms of public administration; risk assessment and precautionary regulation; ecological justice; public.