Environmental Assessment: The Regulation of Decision Making

by Jane Holder

Overview

Environmental assessment has long been a key legal instrument of environmental law. It now governs decision making in many areas relating to environmental protection: pollution control, land use, conservation, and policy making. This volume analyses the development and current state of this mechanism, drawing together the related disciplines of law, governance, and the regulation of decision making. The practice of environmental decision making is elucidated through the use of case studies of contemporary development and policy projects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198267720
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/27/2005
Pages:	398
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Dr. Jane Holder is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Laws at University College London (UCL), where she has worked since 1992. She is Co-director of the centr of Law and the Environment and the Centre of Law and the European Union at the Faculty of Laws at UCL, and is a member of the board of the journal Social Legal Studies.

Table of Contents

Table of CasesTable of LegislationAcknowledgementsPreface1. Introduction2. Tracking Environmental Assessment3. Prediction: Environmental Assessment as Science, Art, and Law4. Ecologization of Governance through Environmental Assessment5. Participation6. Regulation of Decision Making7. Protest8. Standardization9. ConclusionsBibliography