A Citizen's Guide to Using Federal Environmental Laws to Secure Environmental Justice
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Publisher: Environmental Law Institute
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781585760336
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Practical Guide to Environmental Management
Author: Frank Friedman
Publisher: Environmental Law Institute
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9781585760473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAimed at environmental and business professionals, this text explains how to create and maintain an effective corporate environmental management program. Corporate environmental lawyer Friedman begins with an overview of the history of environmental law. Other topics include, for example, reducing w
Environmental Justice and Oil Pollution Laws
Author: Eloamaka Carol Okonkwo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-02-13
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1000040682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the relationship between oil pollution laws and environmental justice by comparing and contrasting the United States and Nigeria. Critically, this book not only examines the fluidity of oil pollutions laws but also how effective or ineffective enforcement can be when viewed through the lens of environmental justice. Using Nigeria as a case study and drawing upon examples from the United States, it examines the legal and institutional challenges impacting upon the effective enforcement of laws and provides a contrasting view of developed and developing countries. Focusing on the oil and gas industry, the book discusses the laws and international acceptable standards (IAS) in these industries, the principles behind their application, the existing barriers to their effective implementation, and how to overcome those barriers. Utilising an environmental justice framework, the book demonstrates the synergy between policy-making, human rights, and justice in oil-producing regions as well as addressing the importance of protecting the rights of minorities. Through a comparative analysis of the United States and Nigeria, this book draws out enforcement approaches and mechanisms for tackling oil-related pollution with a view to reducing environmental injustice in developing countries. Examining the role of NGOs in pursuing environmental justice matters, the book showed the regional courts as one avenue of overcoming the enforcement challenges faced by the developing countries. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law, environmental justice, minorities' rights, business and human rights, energy law, and natural resource governance.
Environmental Justice
Author: Barry E. Hill
Publisher: Environmental Law Institute
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781585761241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental risks and harms affect certain geographic areas and populations more than others. The environmental justice movement is aimed at having the public and private sectors address this disproportionate burden of risk and exposure to pollution in minority and/or low-income communities, and for those communities to be engaged in the decision-making processes. Environmental Justice provides an overview of this defining problem and explores the growth of the environmental justice movement. It analyzes the complex mixture of environmental laws and civil rights legal theories adopted in environmental justice litigation. Teachers will have online access to the more than 100 page Teachers Manual.
From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion
Author: Benjamin J. Richardson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-12-25
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1800881096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcross the world, millions of people are taking to the streets demanding urgent action on climate breakdown and other environmental emergencies. Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future and Climate Strikes are part of a new lexicon of environmental protest advocating civil disobedience to leverage change. This groundbreaking book – also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment – critically unveils the legal and political context of this new wave of eco-activisms. It illustrates how the practise of dissent builds on a long tradition of grassroots activism, such as the Anti-Nuclear movement, but brings into focus new participants, such as school children, and new distinctive aesthetic tactics, such as the mass ‘die-ins’ and ‘discobedience’ theatrics in public spaces.
Civic Monitoring for Environmental Law Enforcement
Author: Anna Berti Suman
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2024-07-05
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1035328704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This book presents a thought-provoking inquiry demonstrating how civic environmental monitoring can support law enforcement. It provides an in-depth analysis of applicable legal frameworks and conventions such as the Aarhus Convention, with an enlightening discussion on the civic right to contribute environmental information.
The Limits of Presidential Power
Author: Lisa Manheim
Publisher: Manheim & Watts, LLC
Published: 2018-01-10
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780999698808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis one-of-a-kind guide provides a crash course in the laws governing the President of the United States. In an engaging and accessible style, two law professors explain the principles that inform everything from President Washington's disagreements with Congress to President Trump's struggles with the courts, and more. Timely and to the point, this guide provides the essential information every informed civic participant needs to know about the laws that govern the president-and what those laws mean for those who want to make their voices heard.
Varieties of Civic Innovation
Author: Jennifer Girouard
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2014-12-22
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0826503586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation. They examine lived reality and theoretical underpinning, promise and accomplishment, but also the pitfalls and capacity-building challenges that face virtually all attempts to bring citizen voice, knowledge, and skill to the center of public problem solving. Their analyses are both hopeful and hard-headed and are guided by commitments to help understand appropriate fit and realistic sustainability. Cases include face-to-face deliberation, online networking and citizen journalism, policy forums, and community and stakeholder planning sessions across local, state and federal contexts. Policy issues run a broad gamut from community and regional economic development and environmental sustainability to minority rights and gay marriage.
Not in My Backyard
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Policy Uptake of Citizen Sensing
Author: Berti Suman, Anna
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-08-27
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1800882602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘Citizen sensing’, the practice in which grassroots actors use sensor technology for environmental monitoring, is increasingly entering the debate around environmental risk governance. This groundbreaking book explores the potential for citizen sensing to concretely influence the governance of environmental risks to public health by shaping policy responses implemented by competent institutions.
