Environmental Law Text, Cases & Materials

Environmental Law: Text, Cases, and Materials has been designed to provide students with everything they need to approach the subject with confidence. Experts in the area, the authors combine clear and insightful commentary with carefully chosen extracts from UK and international sources to offer students a well-rounded view of the subject area.

Covering a broad range of topics, the authors introduce discussion on controversies and debates and encourage readers to engage in critical reflection by posing regular discussion questions throughout the text. Further reading suggestions point students towards useful resources, guiding their independent research.

Online Resources
This book is also accompanied by online updates collated by the authors, helping students to stay well-informed.

Elizabeth Fisher, Professor of Environmental Law, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford,Bettina Lange, Associate Professor of Law and Regulation, University of Oxford,Eloise Scotford, Professor of Environmental Law, UCL

Elizabeth Fisher is a Professor of Environmental Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford and is General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law. She has written widely on environmental law and was shortlisted for the OUP Law Teacher of the Year Award in 2011 and won the SLS Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2008.


Bettina Lange is an Associate Professor of Law and Regulation at the University of Oxford. Bettina has written widely on socio-legal aspects of environmental regulation. She teaches courses on environmental law, socio-legal research methods, and regulation.


Eloise Scotford is a Professor of Environmental Law at UCL and member of UCL's Centre of Law and the Environment. She is Analysis Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law and Associate Member of Landmark Chambers. She writes widely on environmental law and actively researches the legal treatment of environmental principles, air quality law, climate change governance, waste law, and legislative and adjudicative processes as they relate to the environment.

Part I: The Basics
1. What is environmental law?
2. Understanding environmental problems
Part II: Legal Themes and Concepts
3. Private law
4. Public law
5. Criminal liability
6. Statutory liability
7. Courts
8. Principle and policy
9. Regulatory strategy
Part III: Legal Cultures
10. The United Kingdom
11. The European Union
12. International environmental law
Part IV: Pollution Control
13. Pollution control permitting
14. Integrated pollution control
15. Water pollution - rivers and coastal
16. Waste regulation
17. Air pollution
18. Climate control
Part V: Environmental Law and Environmental Protection
19. Planning law
20. Environmental impact assessment
21. Nature conservation