Concluding observations: Three core themes

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Authors

  • Marjan Peeters
  • Rosa Uylenburg

The aim to achieve a high level of environmental protection concerns a complex, wide domain that, for example, encompasses issues related to water, air, soil, noise, chemicals, species, and landscape. Environmental policy is entrenched with technical complexities and, often, uncertainty about the potential effects of certain actions or substances. While law can be seen as a crucial tool to develop protection against deterioration of the environment, it is no easy matter to decide on the best form of legal instruments. What kind of regulatory tools are fit for a certain environmental problem? What kind of legally enforceable substantive and procedural rights should be given to citizens and environmental non-governmental organisations? How can we make environmental law coherent and accessible? Given the complexity and wideness of the whole environmental problem, the ideal of a clear, transparent, and easy to understand legislative package is illusionary. The complexity and incomprehensiveness of the EU environmental legislative package is a core concern, primarily for those who need to work with it in practice. In this vein, we can see the emergence of specialists in the fields of EU water law, EU climate law, and EU nature conservation law. This book attempts to contribute to a cross-cutting debate on EU environmental law by examining EU environmental legislation from a legal perspective.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEU Environmental Legislation : Legal Perspectives on Regulatory Strategies
EditorsMarjan Peeters, Rosa Uylenburg
Number of pages24
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing
Publication date28.03.2014
Pages235-258
ISBN (print)9781781954768
ISBN (electronic)9781781954775
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28.03.2014

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