Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law  (Edward Elgar Publ., 2025), ISBN: 9781788971195)

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Our new research handbook “Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law” (co-edited with Anastasia Telesetsky and Sara K. Phillips) is coming out in print in July 2025.

Here is a brief description of the book:

Discussing the law in theory and in practice, Comparative Environmental Law identifies the ways in which regulatory systems converge or diverge, examining key developments in international legal frameworks from every continent. Expert contributors review different comparative approaches and examine how these can be applied to the study of environmental law.

Here is the table of contents:

List of Contributors viii

Foreword xiv

PART I Overview

1 Introduction to Comparative Environmental Law (Tseming Yang, Anastasia Telesetsky and Sara K. Phillips) 2

2 An introduction to comparative environmental law (Tseming Yang) 8

PART II Planning and sustainability

3 Project-based environmental impact assessment: comparative study and projected trends (Krittika Singh, Timo Koivurova, Katri-Maaria Kyllönen and Pamela Lesser) 35

4 Strategic environmental assessment in environmental law: a comparative perspective (Evan Hamman and Jill Blakley) 59

5 Information disclosure as a pollution management tool: pollution release and transfer registries (Rónán Kennedy) 81

6 Comparative urban sustainable development law and governance and the urban commons (Hoi L. Kong) 102

PART III Rights-based frameworks

7 Environmental human rights: a critical comparative view (James R. May) 118

8 Access to environmental information under international law (Rebecca Bratspies) 149

9 Environmental law and policy and Indigenous peoples (Heather Tanana and Elisabeth Parker) 170

10 Rights of nature: time for a next generation normative paradigm shift? (Anastasia Telesetsky) 194

PART IV Accountability

11 Compliance and enforcement (Lee Paddock) 219

12 Comparative environmental criminal law (Michael Faure) 241

13 Specialist environmental courts and tribunals (Ceri Warnock) 266

14 A comparative study of environmental public interest litigation (Yanmei Lin and Juan Chu) 288

PART V Sectors

15 Contaminated land (Yuhong Zhao) 310

16 Energy transition and renewable energy law (Hsing-Hao Wu and Hisako Takahashi) 330

17 Comparing approaches to water quality regulation (Robin Kundis Craig) 352

18 Comparative Latin American and United States water law (Peter L. Reich) 371

19 Mining law and governance: structures and challenges (Sara K. Phillips) 390

20 Comparative food waste law and policy (Carrie Bradshaw, Patricia Galvão-Ferreira and Heather McLeod-Kilmurray) 417

21 Biodiversity laws of the US and EU (Madeline Kass) 448

22 Uniform and locally tailored emission standards in American and European air pollution law: the impact of historical regulatory traditions (Noga Morag-Levine) 468