Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems.
It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the
global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory
techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer.
Few people would actively argue for pollution or environmental
destruction. Ensuring a clean environment is ethically desirable,
and also sensible from a purely self-interested perspective. Yet,
in practice, environmental law is a messy and complex business
fraught with conflict. Whilst environmental law is often
characterized in overly simplistic terms, with a law being seen as
be a magic wand that solves an environmental problem, the reality
is that creating and maintaining a body of laws to address and
avoid problems is not easy, and involves legislators, courts,
regulators and communities. This Very Short Introduction provides
an overview of the main features of environmental law, and
discusses how environmental law deals with multiple interests,
socio-political conflicts, and the limits of knowledge about the
environment. Showing how interdependent societies across the world
have developed robust and legitimate bodies of law to address
environmental problems, Elizabeth Fisher discusses some of the
major issues involved in environmental law's: nation statehood,
power, the reframing role of law, the need to ensure real
environmental improvements, and environmental justice. As Fisher
explains, environmental law is, and will always be, necessary but
inherently controversial. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
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