Overview
- Brand new research area of environmental law in China
- First comparative study which includes China, the US and UK with respect to the contaminated land legislation
- Reveals the environmental policy-making process in China from an insider's perspective
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Like all industrialized countries, China has encountered increasing problems with land contamination in recent years. Abandoned mining and manufacturing sites and obsolete industrial complexes, while also creating new polluting industrial enterprises, represent impending environmental threats. More importantly, a number of social and economic problems have developed and must be dealt with, in some cases urgently. Contaminated land laws and regulations have been established and have evolved in the US and UK and many other jurisdictions over the past few decades. These regimes have substantially influenced the relevant legislation in the context of numerous Asian and European countries and will inevitably benefit similar legislative efforts in China.
This book is the first monograph that focuses on how China can learn from the US and UK with respect to contaminated land legislation and comprehensively illustrates how contaminated land law could be created in China. It will be of interest to academics and practitioners in environmental law in China, as well as the US and UK.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developing an Appropriate Contaminated Land Regime in China
Book Subtitle: Lessons Learned from the US and UK
Authors: Xiaobo Zhao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31615-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-31614-2Published: 12 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-31615-9Published: 13 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 298
Topics: International Environmental Law, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Soil Science & Conservation, Terrestrial Pollution, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice