This Handbook brings together the foremost authorities from around the world to provide the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law. It examines in detail the methodological foundations of the discipline as well as the substance of environmental law across countries.

Framing comparative environmental law 1: Jorge E. Viñuales: Comparative environmental law: Structuring a field 2: Emma Lees: Value in comparative law - 3D Cartography and analytical description Part I: Country studies 3: Douglas Fisher: Australia 4: Antonio Benjamin & Nicholas Bryner: Brazil 5: Stepan Wood: Canada 6: Wang Xi: People's Republic of China 7: Markus Gehring, Freedom-Kai Phillips, Emma Lees: The European Union 8: Laurent Neyret: France 9: Olaf Dilling & Wolfgang Köck: Germany 10: Bharat Desai & Balraj K. Sidhu: India 11: Simon Butt & Prayekti Murharjanti: Indonesia 12: Julius Weitzdörfer & Lucy Lu Reimers: Japan 13: Marisol Anglés Hernández & Monserrat Rovalo: Mexico 14: Lye Lin-Heng: Singapore 15: Jan Glazewski: South Africa 16: Hong Sik Cho & Gina J. Choi: South Korea 17: Stuart Bell: United Kingdom 18: James Salzman: United States of America Part II: Problems 19: Massimiliano Montini: Atmospheric pollution 20: Dan Tarlock: Environmental regulation of freshwater 21: Ben Boer & Ian Hannam: Land degradation 22: Agustin Garcia Ureta: Nature conservation 23: Till Markus: Regulation of marine-capture fisheries 24: Anne Saab: Genetically modified organisms 25: Justin Gundlach & Michael Gerrard: Climate change and energy transition policies 26: Lucas Bergkamp & Adam Abelkop: Regulation of chemicals 27: Natalie Jones & Geert van Calster: Waste regulation 28: Emma Lees: Contaminated sites Part III: Systems A. Infrastructure 29: Eloise Scotford: Environmental principles across jurisdictions: Legal connectors and catalysts 30: Moritz Reese: Distribution of powers 31: Christopher P. Rodgers: Property systems and environmental regulation 32: Brian Preston: Regulatory organisation 33: Elizabeth Fisher: Sciences, environmental laws, and legal cultures: Fostering collective epistemic responsibilities 34: Veerle Heyvaert: Transnational networks 35: Emma Lees: Adjudication systems B. Policy instruments Command and control regulation 36: Wang Jin: Environmental planning 37: Colin Reid: Protection of sites 38: Bettina Lange: Command and control standards and cross-jurisdictional harmonization 39: Neil Craik: The assessment of environmental impact Market mechanisms 40: Janet Milne: Environmental taxation 41: Sanja Bogojevic: Trading schemes Informational techniques 42: Amy Cutter-McKenzie, Marianne Logan, Ferdousi Khatun, Karen Malone: A cartography of environmental education 43: Karen Morrow: Informational requirements and environmental protection 44: Jason Czarnezki, Margot Pollans, Sarah Main: Eco-labelling Ex post injury-based mechanisms 45: Monika Hinteregger: Environmental liability 46: Louis Kotze & Erin Daly: A cartography of environmental human rights Part IV: Legal context 47: Ole Pedersen: Environmental law and constitutional and public law 48: David Howarth: Environmental law and private law 49: Emma Lees: Environmental law and criminal law 50: Geert van Calster: Environmental law in private international law 51: Leslie-Anne Duvic Paoli: Environmental law and public international law

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law, along with a complete conceptual framework for the field. A variety of leading experts adopt different perspectives for the comparative analysis of the environmental law systems of 15 countries and the European Union This wide-ranging volume includes chapters on major environmental problems (such as atmospheric pollution, nature conservation, and climate change policies) as well as examining the infrastructure of environmental law and policy instruments (including command and control regulation, market mechanisms, and informational techniques). Approaches environmental law as a single overall system, giving readers an analytical focus which remains relevant regardless of changes in the law Provides an overall methodological frame to guide further research

Emma Lees is University Lecturer in Environmental and Property Law at University of Cambridge and is the Deputy-Director of the Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EERNG), and a fellow of the Centre for Property Law. She is also a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Jorge E. Viñuales holds the Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge and is the founder and former Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). He is also the Chairman of the Compliance Committee of the UN-ECE/WHO-Europe Protocol on Water and Health, a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre, the Director-General of the Latin American Society of International Law, and an Of Counsel with Lalive. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was the Pictet Chair of International Environmental Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, where he keeps a limited affiliation. Professor Viñuales is also a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law, along with a complete conceptual framework for the field. A variety of leading experts adopt different perspectives for the comparative analysis of the environmental law systems of 15 countries and the European Union This wide-ranging volume includes chapters on major environmental problems (such as atmospheric pollution, nature conservation, and climate change policies) as well as examining the infrastructure of environmental law and policy instruments (including command and control regulation, market mechanisms, and informational techniques). Approaches environmental law as a single overall system, giving readers an analytical focus which remains relevant regardless of changes in the law Provides an overall methodological frame to guide further research