Environmental Protection in Multi-Layered Systems : Comparative Lessons from the Water Sector

The book describes and analyses how environmental issues are regulated in several federal, regional and unitary systems and in the European Union. The comparative analysis reveals common trends towards a multi-layered environmental governance, cross-cutting traditional distinctions among different state models.
In the second part, the case study of the management and protection of water resources is selected and analysed in the same legal systems. Disaggregating environmental protection into more specific competence fields allows trends and challenges to be tested.
The book casts light on the relationship between the state models as to the division of powers and environmental governance. It develops theoretical and practical foundations of contemporary, multi-level environmental law and challenges consolidated approaches in federal studies.

Mariachiara Alberton, Ph.D. (2007), University of Siena, is Senior Researcher in Environmental Law at the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism, EURAC, Bolzano, Italy. She has published monographs and articles on international and EU environmental law and climate change.
Francesco Palermo, Ph.D. (1998), University of Innsbruck, is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law, University of Verona, and Director of the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism, (EURAC). He has published extensively in comparative constitutional law, minority rights, federalism.