The term “environmental law” refers to the complex system of legislation, common law, treaties, convention, regulations, and policies that aim to safeguard areas of nature that may be negatively influenced by human activities. Some environmental laws establish maximum allowable levels of pollution or require permits for the potentially harmful activities, thereby regulating the quantity and nature of impacts resulting from human activities. There are also preventative environmental rules that aim to evaluate potential consequences of human activities before they are implemented.In the majority of industrial economies, environmental law asan independent structure emerged in the 1960s. It’s rapidly becoming into a significant area of law. Its tenets are starting to become more transparent. While environmental law’s questions are substantive, their solutions tend to be more procedural. Sustainable development advocates have increasingly looked to environmental legislation as a key tool in recent years. Many changes to environmental law have been motivated by precautionary principle, public participation, environmental justice, as well as the polluter-pays principle.
All of the key environmental accords are discussed in detail, including their organizational framework, primary legislative provisions, and day-to-day operations. Rights of humanity, humanitarian law, and transnational corporations are only some of the topics covered, and the book skillfully combines legal as well as policy analysis with numerous citations from precedents and academic literature.