Overview
- Multdisciplinary nature
- Pictures the assessment of long term effects of hazardous substances released into the marine environment by means of models
- Shows how economical evaluation tools can be used to estimate ecological damage to the marine environment
- Looks at the potentials and constraints to recover environmental/ecological damage through liability regimes and compensation funds
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Legal Aspects of Environmental Damage
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International and Regional Funds for Compensation for Damage to the Marine Environment
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Economic Valuation of Damage to the Marine Environment
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Trade-Off Between Environmental and Socio-Economic Factors in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Frank Maes is professor of Public International Law, in particular International Environmental Law at Ghent University (Belgium) and research director at the Maritime Institute of Ghent University. He is mainly involved in the co-ordination and promotion of research projects on the protection of seas and oceans, fresh water legislation, climate change and sustainable development. He is also frequently acting as advisor to governments and non-governmental organizations on aspects of international environmental law.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marine Resource Damage Assessment
Book Subtitle: Liability and Compensation for Environmental Damage
Editors: Frank Maes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3368-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6846-0Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3368-1Published: 29 June 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 284
Topics: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Environmental Economics, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Freshwater & Marine Ecology