Environmental Studies: Waste Management, Hazardous Waste & Environmental Toxicology

This book traces the origins of environmental ethics as a discipline, and considers how it defends the independent value of living creatures, and the need to make decisions informed by the needs and interests of future generations. Exploring the diverse approaches to ethical decisions and judgements, this text highlights the importance of making processes of production and consumption sustainable and of addressing human population levels, together with policies for preserving species, sub-species, and their habitats.

This text provides an overview of the main features of environmental law, and discusses how environmental law deals with multiple interests, socio-political conflicts, and the limits of knowledge about the environment. Showing how interdependent societies across the world have developed robust and legitimate bodies of law to address environmental problems, this book discusses some of the major issues involved in environmental law's: nation statehood, power, the reframing role of law, the need to ensure real environmental improvements, and environmental justice.

This book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins as vague political slogans reflecting fears about environmental hazards to their embodiment in enforceable laws. This title will be relevant to those interested in environmental law and policy, in the relationship between law and science, and in the ways in which political and ethical values can become embodied in laws.

This book examines the successes and failures of the Clean Air Act with the aim to offer lessons for future climate and energy policymaking in the U.S. at the federal and state level. It provides critical information to legislators, regulators, and scholars interested in understanding environmental policymaking.

This book provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy in the United States, which is of particular importance in the current era of congressional gridlock, increasing partisan rhetoric, and escalating debates about federal/state relations. It includes case studies, two chapters on food policy and natural resource policy, and public opinion data.

This book is a comprehensive and easy-to-understand primer that provides an overview of U.S. wildlife law for a broad audience. This text describes basic legal concepts while offering important updates that address recent legal topics. Chapter sidebars highlight relevant legal cases illustrating real-world application of the legal concepts covered in the main text.