Titlebook: Environmental Law and Ethics; John Alder,David Wilkinson Textbook 1999Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999 environment.environ

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,Introduction — Environmental Perspectives,ns. We shall then briefly introduce the notions of environment and pollution. We shall suggest possible relationships between law and ethics and sketch the evolution of environmental law. Finally we shall try to place the ethical issues against their political, social and economic background. In the

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The Main Ethical Approaches,this chapter will reappear in various guises in later chapters. In Chapters 5 and 6 we shall introduce some general environmental principles such as sustainable development and the precautionary principle. These have ethical roots, which are linked to political and economic concerns, thus providing

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Institutional Arrangements for Environmental Law,has little respect for national boundaries, animals migrate, international trade connects cause and effect in diverse national territories, etc. In this chapter we examine the role of institutions directly in the formation of environmental law, and indirectly as constituents of the world system in w

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The International Development of Environmental Values,ar aspects of both international and European law will reappear in later chapters. Environmental law has a strong international dimension. Pollution is no respecter of national boundaries. Both pollution and deforestation increase the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere thereby contributing to global w

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,Environmental Policies — Sustainable Development, end of the spectrum sustainable development is regarded as an empty platitude intended to provide a formula acceptable to most ethical and political points of view. At the other extreme sustainable development is regarded as a useful policy guide although no one believes that the concept is capable

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Property Law and the Environment,law framework. In measuring the common law against general principles such as ‘sustainable development’ or ‘polluter pays’ it would be wrong to take a simplistic approach that assumes a model of consistent and mechanical compliance with these principles and ‘rates’ the law against the model. Firstly

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International Trade and the Environment: Ethical Issues,omestic environmental laws. It will primarily focus on a case study, namely a dispute over attempts by the USA to protect dolphins from certain tuna fishing practices by using import bans and restricting the right to use eco-labelling.