Environmental Assessment: The Regulation of Decision Making - Softcover

Holder, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199207585 ISBN 13: 9780199207589

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

Review

`'This is an important book, and it is clearly not just for students and academics, nor only for those whose prime interest is in the law of planning and development. Jane Holder has made a major contribution to the study of environmental regulation and protection.''
David Hughes, 2005, 17 Environmental Law and Management

`'This book provides far more than a detailed account of the emergence and development of environmental assessment as a regulatory mechanism (alongside the development of environmental law itself as a discrete discipline). The sheer depth and sophistication of the scholarship presented here,
(which draws on literature from a broad range of disciplines) is outstanding...In sum, this is an excellent work. Holder's careful analysis enhances the reader's understanding of environmental assessment as an interdisciplinary, highly complex, and far from neutral process. The role of law in
shaping and, at times reinforcing the competing interests and values that are at work within the process, is skilfully drawn out...'
Aine Ryall, Yearbook of European Law, 24

`'This book represents a formidable feat of scholarship. And since it has as many references to Habermas as it has to Lord Hoffman, its readership should not be confined to lawyers...Whether or not the future development of evironmental assessment continues to support Holder's pessimistic
conclusion, this book will remain the definitive text for many years to come.''
Chris Miller, University of Salford, Environmental Law Review 7, (2005) 161

`'Holder does not shirk [these] difficult questions; through an immpressively close examination of environmental assessment, Holder opens up some of the key dilemmas facing those concerned with the means by which we seek to protect the environment. This book is the type of wide ranging and
imaginative legal scholarship that deserves the widest readership.''
Maria Lee, Kings College London, Environmental Values

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0199207585
• ISBN 13: 9780199207589
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400