Overview
- Explores agricultural law from a global law perspective
- Covers hot topics in the various areas of agricultural law
- Guides the reader through the frontiers of an under-researched area of law
- Addresses the complexities of the agri-food and agri-environmental regimes
Part of the book series: LITES - Legal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies (LITES, volume 1)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (17 chapters)
-
Environmental Protection and Food Security at the Cross-Roads with Agricultural Law
-
Emerging Consumers’ Interests: Answers from the Agri-Food Regulation
-
Land Tenure, Investment Law and Agriculture
Keywords
About this book
This book focuses on the social and environmental issues being addressed by agricultural law within the current globalised system.
What is agricultural law? Agricultural regulations concern and affect essential human needs and values that must be dealt with by pursuing a comprehensive and coordinated global approach. By tracking the developments in this context, this book explores the new challenges that agricultural law needs to address in order to frame emerging dilemmas.
International governance of natural resources and their role in addressing food insecurity is the object of the first Part of the volume, which deals with sustainable agriculture and agro-ecosystem services in connection with the food security issue.
The second Part focuses on the regulation of food as the main product of agricultural activity, and explores the answers that the law can provide in order to accommodate consumers’ interests and concerns (inter alia, novel foods, animal welfare, direct sales and e-commerce).
The third Part examines the social, environmental and legal consequences of a renewed interest in agricultural investments. Further, it analyses the evolution and the interplay between different legal systems with regard to land tenure, environmental concerns and investments in agriculture.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agricultural Law
Book Subtitle: Current Issues from a Global Perspective
Editors: Mariagrazia Alabrese, Margherita Brunori, Silvia Rolandi, Andrea Saba
Series Title: LITES - Legal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64756-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64755-5Published: 13 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87863-8Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64756-2Published: 05 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2522-5049
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5057
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 388
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Environmental Law, Agricultural Economics, Food Science, International Economic Law, Trade Law, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice