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
