Download or read book Groundwater in International Law written by Stefano Burchi and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundwater represents about 97 per cent of the fresh water resources available on earth (excluding the water locked in the polar ice), and is of key social, economic, environmental and strategic importance. Aquifers (including numerous transboundary ones) are coming under growing pressure from over-abstraction and pollution, which seriously threaten their sustainability. This publication brings together a range of binding and non-binding international law instruments dealing with groundwater, an emerging body of rules that indicate a trend towards more comprehensive international regulation in this important field.

Download or read book Global Approaches to Site Contamination Law written by Elizabeth Brandon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the complex and variable laws addressing site contamination, reviewing existing international, regional and national law of relevance to site contamination. It also offers detailed case studies of national approaches to the issue, and goes on to explore avenues for promoting the development of comprehensive domestic laws on site contamination, with a focus on the role of international law and actors. A detailed discussion analyzes such variations as a binding international legal instrument, a non-binding instrument, and a model framework for site contamination management. The text includes recommendations regarding the key elements needed for regulating site contamination at the national level. The author also offers an appropriate and feasible timetable for international action to promote better national law and policy regarding contaminated sites.

Download or read book The Enforcement of EU Law written by Stine Andersen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the European Commission's current range of practices for exercising control over the meaning and implementation of EU law, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of centralised EU enforcement. It describes the different practices available analysing their effectiveness and discussing the Commission's role in ensuring compliance.

Download or read book Dynamics of Mercury Pollution on Regional and Global Scales written by Nicola Pirrone and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the different dynamic patterns involved in the redistribution of mercury in the global environment, and its impact on human health and ecosystems. Increasing mercury usage and the lack of emission control policy, especially in fast developing countries, represent a complex environmental and political issue that can only benefit from more accurate measurement.

Download or read book Hydrogeology written by Kevin M. Hiscock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HYDROGEOLOGY Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of hydrogeology to enable the reader to appreciate the significance of groundwater in meeting current and future environmental and sustainable water resource challenges. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect advances in the field since 2014 and includes over 350 new references. The book presents a systematic approach to understanding groundwater starting with new insights into the distribution of groundwater in the Earth’s upper continental crust and the role of groundwater as an agent of global material and elemental fluxes. Following chapters explain the fundamental physical and chemical principles of hydrogeology, and later chapters feature groundwater field investigation techniques in the context of catchment processes, as well as chapters on groundwater quality and contaminant hydrogeology, including a section on emerging contamination from microplastic pollution. Unique features of the book are chapters on the application of environmental isotopes and noble gases in the interpretation of aquifer evolution, and a discussion of regional characteristics such as topography, compaction and variable fluid density on geological processes affecting past, present and future groundwater flow regimes. The last chapter discusses future challenges for groundwater governance and management for the long-term sustainability of groundwater resources, including the role of managed aquifer recharge, and examines the linkages between groundwater and climate change, including impacts on cold-region hydrogeology. Given the drive to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the interaction of groundwater in the exploitation of energy resources, including renewable resources and shale gas, is reviewed. Throughout the text, boxes and a set of colour plates drawn from the authors’ teaching and research experience are used to explain special topics and to illustrate international case studies ranging from transboundary aquifers and submarine groundwater discharge to the hydrogeochemical factors that have influenced the history of malting and brewing in Europe. The appendices provide conversion tables and useful reference material, and include review questions and exercises, with answers, to help develop the reader’s knowledge and problem-solving skills in hydrogeology. This highly informative and accessible textbook is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students primarily in earth sciences, environmental sciences and physical geography with an interest in hydrogeology or groundwater topics. The book will also find use among practitioners in hydrogeology, soil science, civil engineering and landscape planning who are involved in environmental and resource protection issues requiring an understanding of groundwater.

Download or read book Chlorinated Paraffins written by C. de Boer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chlorinated paraffins are one of the last classes of chlorinated compounds that are still being produced worldwide and used in high quantities in many applications. They are particularly used in cutting oils in the metal industry, but also as lubricants, plasticizers, flame retardants and as additives in adhesives, rubber, paints and sealants. This volume covers the state-of-the-art of methods for the synthesis and analysis of chlorinated paraffins. Experts in the field provide an overview of their worldwide occurrence and utilization and describe their toxicological properties. International regulations and production volumes are presented as well as an example of a risk assessment study that was carried out in Japan. This book is a valuable and comprehensive source of information for environmental scientists interested in the occurrence and toxicology of chlorinated paraffins and for authorities and producers.

Download or read book Impact Assessment in EU Lawmaking written by Anne C. M. Meuwese and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent constitutional thinking has directed its attention to the profound impact of 'soft' norms on the way legislation is made. This book identifies the European Union's impact assessment regime as a source of these norms. In 2002 the European Commission - later followed by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers - committed to performing rigorous assessment of the economic, social and environmental impacts of policy options before adopting (legislative) proposals. Applying a 'constitutional lens' to this 'regulatory' topic, Anne Meuwese examines both the details and the framework of IA in EU lawmaking to date, drawing attention to its strengths, its contradictions, and its power to enhance the deliberative quality of legislative debates. Integrating the perspectives of political scientists and economists with the concerns of legal scholars and practitioners, Dr Meuwese describes and interrelates such aspects of the subject as the following: the potential role of impact assessment as a catalyst of legal principles, by emphasising or overriding norms that govern both the procedural and the substantive aspects of the EU legislative process; the 'constitutional tasks' of impact assessment as applied to European legislative proposals, especially relating to subsidiarity, proportionality, and the precautionary principle; the formal and informal extension of the scope of impact assessment beyond the co-decision procedure; the question whether impact assessment crosses the line between informing the legislator and fettering legislative discretion. In the course of her analysis Dr Meuwese develops models for possible usages of IA in EU lawmaking, analyses the implementation of impact assessment processes in the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council as well as the roles of relevant 'co-actors', and offers results of empirical research in the forms of a survey of EU legislative practice and in-depth case studies of four EU legislative dossiers.

Download or read book Review of Ground Water Protection Strategy Recently Proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Green and Sustainable Pharmacy written by Klaus Kümmerer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within recent years pharmaceuticals have come into focus as contaminants of the environment (see for example Kümmerer, K. editor: Pharmaceuticals in the Environment). At the same time the issue of sustainable chemistry gained momentum. Bringing both together would result in sustainable pharmacy. Sustainable pharmacy is a totally new issue and approach. It addresses environmental, economical and social aspects of pharmacy. In the present stage the focus will be on environmental issues along the whole lifecycle of a pharmaceutical entity. That is dealing with resources and energy input but also with waste issues for example during the synthesis and production of an active pharmaceutical ingredient. Furthermore, it would also look on the compounds themselves and will aim to improve the degradability of the compounds after their use in the environment to reduce the environmental risk caused by pharmaceuticals in the environment. Another issue is the people using pharmaceuticals such as pharmacists, medical doctors and patients. How can they contribute to more efficient use of pharmaceuticals with less environmental burden and less risk for drinking water. The book "Sustainable Pharmacy" will address all these issues and will be the first one dealing with this important topic.

Download or read book Bulletin of the European Union written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Groundwater Science and Policy written by Philippe Quevauviller and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2008 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an overview of key findings in groundwater management in context against the legislative milestones. Until recently, focus on groundwater mainly concerned its use as drinking water and as an important resource for industry (e.g. cooling waters) and agriculture (irrigation). It has, however, become increasingly obvious that groundwater should not only be viewed as a drinking water reservoir, but that it should also be protected for its environmental value. In this respect, groundwater represents an important link of the hydrological cycle through the maintenance of wetlands and river flows, acting as a buffer through dry periods. Hence, deterioration of groundwater quality may directly affect other related aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The groundwater legislative framework under the EU Water Framework Directive and the newly adopted Groundwater Directive establishes criteria linked to environmental objectives which have to be met by 2015 following successive operational steps including characterisation, risk assessment (analysis of pressures and impacts), monitoring and design of programmes of measures. These milestones require that sound technical and scientific information be made accessible to water managers, which is so far still not sufficiently streamlined. In this context, this book describes the groundwater legislative milestones and presents series of research and development activities that aim to directly support them. It has, therefore, the ambition to become a vehicle liaising policy requirements and available scientific knowledge in this area.

Download or read book Sourcebook on Environmental Law written by Maurice Sunkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 SOURCES AND PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW -- chapter THE SOURCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Environmental law: the international perspective -- chapter The sources of international environmental law -- chapter Customary international law General principles of international law -- chapter Judicial decisions and the writings of eminent publicists United Nations General Assembly Resolutions -- chapter Environmental law: European Community perspective -- chapter The institutions of the EC -- chapter Law-making by Community institutions -- chapter Voluntary agreements -- chapter Application of direct effect -- chapter Environmental directives with direct effect -- chapter The duty to interpret national law in the light of a directive: 'indirect effect' -- chapter The subsidiarity principle -- chapter The EC's Environmental Action Programmes -- chapter Statutes Delegated legislation Codes of Practice -- chapter Ministerial guidance Government White Papers Reports of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution -- chapter Select Committee reports The Environment Agency -- chapter PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW The relationship between principles Sustainable development -- chapter Preventive and precautionary principles -- chapter The principle of citizen participation and the right to a healthy environment -- chapter The principle of integration -- chapter Integrated pollution control -- chapter ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES: THE KEY INSTRUMENTS Defining the 'environment' and 'pollution of the environment' Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment 1972 -- chapter Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 1992 -- chapter LIABILITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE International liability for environmental damage -- chapter European Community law -- chapter REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING -- chapter USEFUL WEBSITES -- chapter AIR AND ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION -- chapter Structure of the chapter AIR AND ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT Customary international law -- chapter Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992 -- chapter Kyoto Protocol 1997 -- chapter Monitoring and Evaluation Protocol 1984 Sulphur Protocols 1985 and 1994 Nitrogen Oxides Protocol 1988 -- chapter Volatile Organic Compounds Protocol 1991 -- chapter Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 1985 and its Montreal Protocol 1987 EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW -- chapter Sulphur in air -- chapter Lead in air -- chapter Vehicle emissions -- chapter Emissions from industrial plants -- chapter Towards a unified framework for EC air quality law and policy Air Quality Framework Directive 96/62 -- chapter CAFE -- chapter Local air quality management areas (AQMAs) -- chapter Road traffic pollution -- chapter Restricting the use of roads and traffic management -- chapter REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING -- chapter USEFUL WEBSITES -- chapter WATER AND MARINE POLLUTION -- chapter INTERNATIONAL LAW UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 -- chapter International legal regime for vessel-source marine oil pollution -- chapter MARPOL Convention 1973/78 -- chapter Measures controlling the release of substances into water -- chapter Titanium dioxide Measures protecting designated types of water -- chapter Bathing water -- chapter Urban waste water -- chapter The Water Framework Directive 00/60 -- chapter Cambridge Water Co v Eastern Counties Leather plc [1994] 1 All ER 53 -- chapter Water pollution legislation -- chapter Licences to abstract water Droughts -- chapter Ministerial Regulations - water quality classification and objectives -- chapter Anti-pollution works Prevention of pollution -- chapter Public registers Quality of water supplies -- chapter REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING -- chapter USEFUL WEBSITES -- chapter WASTE -- INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW RELATING TO WASTE -- chapter Dumping at sea -- chapter International trade in hazardous wastes and substances -- chapter Basel Convention 1989 -- chapter Bamako Convention 1991 -- chapter Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation 1999 -- chapter Directive on Waste 75/442 (WFD) (see p 389, below) -- chapter Directive on the Disposal of Waste Oils 75/439 -- chapter Council Regulation on the Shipment of Waste 259/93 -- chapter Directive on Sewage Sludge Directive 86/278 Directive on Packaging Waste Directive 94/62 -- chapter Directive on the Landfill of Waste 99/31 -- chapter Further developments -- chapter The statutory definition of 'waste' -- chapter Is the material capable of being waste? Has the material been discarded? -- chapter Not all discarded material will be waste -- chapter National Waste Strategy -- chapter Waste Strategy 2000 -- chapter The key messages of the strategy (Chapter 1) -- chapter The waste strategy summarised.

Download or read book Integration of Environment Into EU Agriculture Policy written by European Environment Agency and published by European Environment Agency. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims to provide a fair reflection of the progress, the achievements and obstacles in the integration of environmental concerns into EU agriculture policy, based on indicators developed in the IRENA operation (Indicator Reporting on the Integration of Environmental Concerns into Agriculture Policy). It also tackles limitations to successful policy implementation at Member State level, and challenges ahead. Policy examples from some Member States aim to show good practice in agri-environmental policy implementation or design. Due to the scope of the IRENA operation the analysis focuses on the EU-15 Member States. More information can be found on the IRENA website: http://webpubs.eea.eu.int/content/irena/index.htm

Download or read book Groundwater Management Practices written by Angelos N. Findikakis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents and compares practices followed in various different countries for the development, protection and management of groundwater resources. It includes overviews of technical and non-technical aspects of groundwater management practices and selected case studies in different countries. Further it provides reviews of specific technical issues such as groundwater quality management and protection, groundwater impacts of underground structures and hazards of artificial recharge and discharge; discussions of regulatory and legal issues affecting groundwater management.

Download or read book Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater written by Deyi Hou and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater: Materials, Processes, and Assessment provides the remediation tools and techniques necessary for simultaneously saving time and money and maximizing environmental, social and economic benefits. The book integrates green materials, cleaner processes, and sustainability assessment methods for planning, designing and implementing a more effective remediation process for both soil and groundwater projects. With this book in hand, engineers will find a valuable guide to greener remediation materials that render smaller environmental footprint, cleaner processes that minimize secondary environmental impact, and sustainability assessment methods that can be used to guide the development of materials and processes. - Addresses materials, processes, and assessment needs for implementing a successful sustainable remediation process - Provides an integrated approach for the unitization of various green technologies, such as green materials, cleaner processes and sustainability assessment - Includes case studies based on full-scale commercial soil and groundwater remediation projects

Download or read book Principles of Water Law and Administration written by Dante A. Caponera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which was first published in 1992 and then updated in 2007, provides a tool for dealing with the legal and institutional aspects of water resources management within national contexts and at the level of transboundary water resources. Like its two previous editions, it seeks to cover all aspects that need to be known in order to attain good water governance, but it provides updates concerning developments since 2007. These relate, inter alia, to the following: - the “greening” of water law, which calls for the progressive integration of environmental law principles into domestic and international water law; - the adoption, by the International Law Commission in 2008, of the Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers, and subsequent developments; - the emergence of the right to water as a self-standing human right; - the adoption of domestic water laws supporting integrated water resources management (IWRM) and enhanced public participation in planning and decision making; - the integration into these laws of tools facilitating adaptive water management as a response to climate variability and change; - progress in the implementation of EU law; - recent international agreements and judicial decisions; - efforts of regional organizations other than the EU to steer cooperation in the management of transboundary water resources and the harmonization of national laws; - institutional mechanisms for the management of transboundary water resources (surface and underground). Unique in its scope and nature, the book identifies the legal and institutional issues arising in connection with water resources management and provides guidelines for possible solutions in a manner accessible to a wide range of readers. Thus, it is a useful reference for lawyers and non-lawyers — engineers, hydrologists, hydrogeologists, economists, sociologists — dealing with water resources within government institutions, river basin commissions, international organizations, financing institutions and academic institutions, among other things, and also for students of disciplines related to water resources.

Download or read book Yearbook of International Environmental Law written by Ole Kristian Fauchald and published by Yearbook International Environ. This book was released on 2008 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This yearbook contains articles from an international team of contributors. Each section of essays covers a topical subject, focusing mainly on environmental law, and the year-in-review section offers a round-up of world-wide legal developments.