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AN IMPORTANT LEGAL RESEARCH TOOL FROM EDWARD ELGARON EUROPEAN UNION ENVIRONMENT LAW AT A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE ON THE CONTINENTAn appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green ChambersIf you are an environmental lawyer, or indeed any kind of lawyer, you will need no reminder of the importance of EU environmental law, even in the face of the UK’s imminent departure from the EU. The environment after all, knows no boundaries.One of the latest publications from Elgar’s European Law series, this book, say the co-authors, can be used both as a handbook and as a general introduction to European environmental regulation which, they add, ‘is becoming more complex and interrelated, making it an emerging field of study for European law graduates’.Authors Geert Van Calster and Leonie Reins are from KU Leuven, Belgium. Professor Van Calster is also at Kings College, London and Monash University, Australia. As environmental law in the European Union grows increasingly complex and persistently confusing, the writers have fortunately provided a cogent, yet detailed and analytical examination of it. There is certainly a formidable amount of research and analysis on a variety of environmental issues in this one compact volume.Part I of the book surveys the framework of European environmental law and the principles that govern it, with the first chapter featuring a brief yet illuminating survey of its history. Interestingly, it is pointed out that in the nineteen-fifties at the founding stage of the EU, i.e., the European Coal and Steel Community -- and later when the 1957 Treaty of Rome established the EEC -- there were no policies or legal provisions directly related to the environment. By the 1970s, however, the environment had emerged as an issue of international importance.Of special interest to lawyers (as well as environmentalists) is Part II of the book on substantive legislation, which covers a range of areas, from biodiversity and nature conservation through to legislation on water protection, noise and air pollution, climate change, waste and chemicals -- and approaches relating to trade.And it goes without saying that the academic community rely more and more heavily on these excellent research handbooks which independent publishers, Edward Elgar, produce for us as practitioners and scholars in the legal profession.All this, plus tables of cases and of legislation – including directives and regulations – make this book an important work of reference, not only for practitioners and scholars, but for anyone interested in a thoroughly contemporary study of environmental issues.The publication date is cited as at 2017 and is available in print and digitally.
