Seit Mitte der 70er Jahre lasst sich in der Unternehmenspraxis eine zunehmende Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der betrieblichen Umweltkostenrechnung beobachten. Die Berechnungen beschrankten sich bis in die 80er Jahre hinein auf die Ermittlung der Kosten von nachsorgenden Umweltschutzmassnahmen und wurden meist als Sonderrechnungen durchgefuhrt. Die laufende Kostenrechnung blieb dabei von Umweltfragen unberuhrt. Seit einigen Jahren werden jedoch umfassendere Konzepte einer Umweltkostenrechnung entwickelt, die deren Integration in das Managementsystem und die Kostenrechnung der Unternehmen zum Ziel haben. Hier werden, ausgehend vom Stand der Diskussion, mogliche Konsequenzen fur die Weiterentwicklung bzw. die zukunftigen Anforderungen an eine Umweltkostenrechnung vorgestellt."

This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas. A geographical indication is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin. It provides not only a way for businesses to leverage the value of their geographically unique products, but also to inform and attract consumers. A highly contested topic, GI is praised as a tool for the revitalization of agricultural communities, while also criticized for being an instrument exploited by global corporate forces to promote their interests. There are concerns that the promotion of GI may hamper the establishment of democratic forms of development. The contributing authors address this topic by offering theoretically informed investigations of GI from around the world. The book includes case studies ranging from green tea in Japan, olive oil in Turkey and dried fish in Norway, to French wine and Mexican Mezcal. It also places GI in the broader context of the evolution and trends of agri-food under neoliberal globalization. The book will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and students in agri-food studies, sociology of food and agriculture, geography, agricultural and rural economics, environmental and intellectual property law, and social development.

Die juristisch relevanten Themengebiete des Qualitatsmanagements werden praxisorientiert und auch fur juristische Laien verstandlich behandelt: Produkthaftung, Qualitatssicherungsvereinbarungen, Zertifizierung und Akkreditierung, Umwelt- und Arbeitsrecht. Das Buch ist klar strukturiert und enthalt zahlreiche Ubersichten, Fallbeispiele aus der Praxis und Checklisten.
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Similar to the United States (US) Natural Resource Damage (NRD) program, defined under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or "Superfund") and the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), the European Union's (EU) Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) imposes liability for, and requires remediation of, significant damage to natural habitats and species protected at Community and national levels, surface and ground waters covered by the Water Framework Directive, and land.The ELD was first published in 2004 and has since been transposed into the national laws of all EU Member States. However there is little guidance available to authorities and industry in interpreting and applying the ELD and meeting its prevention and restoration objectives. This volume is the first to describe the EU's ELD and to examine the emerging issues and practices in its application. While there are differences between the US and EU regimes, some of the underlying concepts, approaches and definitions embedded in NRD are also mirrored in the text of the ELD. The book includes a comparison of similarities and differences as well as synergies in practice; hence, this book will be of interest to both US and European readers.
The ELD imposes liability for significant damage to natural habitats and species protected at Community and national levels, surface and ground waters covered by the Water Framework Directive, and land. Prior to the ELD's adoption many Member States had programs in place for the restoration of soil and groundwater contamination, but none had a regime for addressing harm to unowned natural resources. This volume presents a comprehensive legal commentary on the legal issues arising under the ELD, as well as an overview of administrative, technical, and legal issues and practices in applying the ELD regimes to cases of actual or threatened environmental damage. In doing so, it discusses both substantive issues and important procedural and process-related issues. Several case studies are presented to illustrate the issues and practical solutions. In addition, emerging best practices relating to practical ELD application are identified and presented.
Identifying and discussing a wide range of emerging administrative, technical, and economic practice issues arising under member state legislation transposing and implementing the ELD, this book will be a valuable resource for all those whose work is affected by the ELD.

The construction of utility infrastructure requires meticulous, long-term planning from both an economic and legal perspective. Recent changes in energy policy aimed at promoting renewables have placed even greater focus on utility infrastructure planning. This book takes current developments as a starting point for an exhaustive overview of the legal environment in utility planning. While specific attention is devoted the the latest developments in the energy sector (NABEG, EnLAG), other types of relevant infrastructure (roads, pipelines, and so on) also receive due treatment.

Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies, our genes, our grandkids, and all life on Earth. Julian Cribb describes the full scale of the chemical catastrophe we have unleashed. He proposes a new Human Right - not to be poisoned. He maps an empowering and hopeful way forward: to rid our planet of these toxins and return Earth to the clean, healthy condition which our forebears enjoyed, and our grandchildren should too.

Jahrlich werden in Deutschland mehr als 6 Milliarden Euro in die Abwasserbeseitigung investiert. Die Umsatzerlose betragen mehr als 9 Milliarden Euro. Die wirtschaftlichen Entscheidungen uber Investitionen, Bau- und Sanierungsmassnahmen, geeignete Betriebsformen, betriebliches Management und die sich daraus ergebenden Gebuhren und Beitrage werden auf Grundlage der Vorarbeiten von Ingenieuren aus dem Bereich der Siedlungswasserwirtschaft entschieden. Neben der Losung der technischen Fragestellungen mussen die Ingenieure daher grundlegende Kenntnisse der rechtlichen sowie der volks- und betriebswirtschaftlichen Zusammenhange ihres Fachgebiets haben.

In diesem Buch werden erstmals alle relevanten okonomischen Fragestellungen der Abwasserbeseitigung in einheitlicher und praxisbezogener Form dargestellt. Dies ermoglicht sowohl dem Anwender in Ingenieurburo oder Behorde als auch dem Studierenden, sich in die teilweise als kompliziert empfundene Thematik einzuarbeiten bzw. damit umzugehen. Viele Abbildungen und Rechenbeispiele tragen zum Verstandnis bei. Zur Anwendung kommen aktuelle Kostendaten, die dem Planer als konkrete Entscheidungshilfe dienen.

Bestandteil des Buches ist ein Rechenprogramm auf Excel-Basis, mit dem der Anwender eine Entscheidungshilfe bei der haufigen Fragestellung erhalt, ob im Bereich der Kanalsanierung eine Renovierung oder eine Erneuerung wirtschaftlich vorteilhaft ist."

Die Arbeit untersucht die Entwicklung der Amerikanischen Deklaration der Rechte und Pflichten des Menschen, die 1948 von der Organisation Amerikanischer Staaten verabschiedet wurde. In einer ersten Entwicklungsphase werden die Grundstrukturen eines Regelungssystems zum Schutz der Menschenrechte geschaffen. In einer zweiten Phase beginnt mit der Gr ndung der Interamerikanischen Kommission f r Menschenrechte die Entwicklung eines Systems zur Kontrolle und Verwirklichung der in der Deklaration niedergelegten Rechte. Anhand einer Untersuchung und Auswertung der Praxis der Kommission von 1960 bis heute zeigt die Arbeit die Entwicklung der Deklaration als urspr nglich rechtlich nicht verbindliche Erkl rung zu einer von den OAS-Staaten anerkannten Quelle v lkerrechtlicher Pflichten.

Do trees have legal rights? What risks to the environment should we legally try to control or prevent? In this updated edition of "Green Justice, " the authors further explore the interrelationship between the legal system and the environment, using key environmental law cases (over half of which are new selections) on such topics as population and biodiversity--and as recent as 1990. The authors' liberal arts approach leads to a wide spectrum of related topics: the history of the common law, the political science of administrative agencies, our obligation to future generations, and the ecology of species extinction.With the help of explanatory introductions, study questions, and references to relevant literature, students are challenged to determine for themselves how the cases should have been decided and how they link up to broader issues. This accessible text is ideal for undergraduate courses in environmental law and environmental policy as well as nonlaw graduate courses in planning or public administration.

Energieeffizienz und Energieeinsparung bilden - neben erneuerbaren Energien - die Saulen der zukunftigen Energiepolitik. Das Lehr- und Handbuch liefert das notwendige Wissen fur eine effiziente Energieumwandlung und -nutzung von Strom, von Warme und im Verkehr. Im Vordergrund steht das ingenieurtechnische Verstandnis der jeweiligen Technologien, die Autoren vermitteln aber zugleich oekonomisches, sozialwissenschaftliches, umweltrechtliches und oekologisches Grundlagenwissen. Mit praxisnahen UEbungsaufgaben und ubersichtlichen Exkurs-Boxen.

Current changes and pressures, in the late 1990s, to transcend professional barriers throughout the construction industry are being reflected in the way built environment education and training is now planned and designed. Courses are focusing on aspects which are common to all the subjects to foster a multi-professional approach and lead to better collaborative practice. The "Built Environment Series of Textbooks" (BEST) provides the texts which are relevant to more than one course and addresses areas of commonality. Learning aids in the texts - chapter objectives, workpieces and checklists - will test the reader's understanding. Law is a complex subject and has a major impact on the built environment and all those working in it. It forms perhaps the strongest interdisciplinary link between the various areas within the built environment and this text should provide the broad understanding of legislative frameworks, statutory controls, policies and procedures, as well as of the law and its applications, that is essential to all built environment professionals.

Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved after the 7th century CE in the Maghrib (North Africa) and al-Andalusia (Spain). Madinah involves multiple contexts that have socio-religious functions and symbolic connotations related to the faith and practice of Islam, and can be viewed in terms of a number of critiques such as everyday lives, boundaries, utopias, and dystopias. The book considers Foucault's power/knowledge matrix as it applies to an erudite cadre of scholars and legal judgments in the realm of architecture and urbanism. It acknowledges the specificity of power/knowledge insofar as it provides a dominant framework to tackle property rights, custom, noise, privacy, and a host of other subjects. Scholars of urban studies, religion, history, and geography will greatly benefit from this vivid analysis of the relevance of the juridico-discursive practice of Maliki Law in a set of productive or formative discourses in the Islamic city.

The collection of rulings publishes the administration of justice by governmental courts in the Federal Republic of Germany pertaining to the relationship of church and state, and also regarding further problems which are characterized by the relevance of religious concerns.

Die Untersuchung enthalt eine rechtliche Systematisierung grenzuberschreitender administrativer Informationsverfahren am Beispiel des europaischen Umweltrechts. Im Umweltrecht der Gemeinschaft werden viele verschiedene Begriffe fur die Erhebung und die Weitergabe von Informationen verwendet, ohne dass auf den ersten Blick einer einheitlichen Systematik gefolgt wurde. Diese Begriffe sind Bestandteil von Rechtsvorschriften, sie konnen aber schwerlich als Rechtsbegriffe bezeichnet werden. Zudem ist das Gemeinschaftsrecht im bestandigen Wandel. Je umfassender und detaillierter das Regelwerk der Gemeinschaft wird und je kurzer dessen Halbwertzeit, desto notiger ist es, in den einzelnen Teilbereichen Grundstrukturen herauszuarbeiten, die eine gewisse Orientierung geben. Die vorliegende Arbeit enthalt fur den Bereich der Verwaltungskooperation eine solche Systematisierung und rechtliche Einordnung. Die Autorin bettet dabei diese rechtlichen Fragestellungen in Erkenntnisse anderer Wissenschaftsbereiche ein. "

Taking a global viewpoint, this volume addresses issues arising from recent developments in the enduring and topical debates over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and their relationship to Intellectual Property (IP). The work examines changing responses to the growing acceptance and prevalence of GMOs. Drawing together perspectives from several of the leading international scholars in this area, the contributions seek to break away from analysis of safety and regulation and examine the diversity of ways the law and GMOs have become entangled. This collection presents the start of a much broader engagement with GMOs and law. As GMO technology becomes increasingly more complex and embedded in our lives, this volume will be a useful resource in leading further discussion and debate about GMOs in academia, in government and among those working on future policy.