Concluding observations: Three core themes
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EU Environmental Legislation: Legal Perspectives on Regulatory Strategies. ed. / Marjan Peeters; Rosa Uylenburg. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014. p. 235-258 (New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series ).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Concluding observations
T2 - Three core themes
AU - Peeters, Marjan
AU - Uylenburg, Rosa
PY - 2014/3/28
Y1 - 2014/3/28
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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DO - 10.4337/9781781954775.00020
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84958656472
SN - 9781781954768
T3 - New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series
SP - 235
EP - 258
BT - EU Environmental Legislation
A2 - Peeters, Marjan
A2 - Uylenburg, Rosa
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing
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