Environmental Law

Environmental Law provides a comprehensive and succinct examination of the entire environmental law landscape in South Africa. The second edition includes a new chapter on climate change, and also examines the following recent developments: the new environmental impact assessment (EIA) regime (2010 regulations); several amendments to the National Environmental Management Act and other environmental legislation; the new National Environmental Management: Waste Act; the new National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act; several important developments in delegated legislation; and numerous new cases, including the far-reaching Fuel Retailers decision in the Constitutional Court.

 

Contents Include:

Introduction

The Constitution and framework environmental legislation

International environmental law

Water law and the environment

Conservation of biodiversity

Pollution control and waste management

Land use and planning

Implementation and administration of environmental law

Environmental justice: a South African perspective

South Africa’s position on climate change

CD-ROM containing important environmental legislation and leading cases

 

Author: Michael Kidd

Softcover

368 pages plus CD