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The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Policy and Law

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  • Aug 2025
  • Latest edition

Overview

  • Essential academic and policy focussed content
  • Focus on governance helping to protect the environment
  • Editor with diverse areas of expertise in the field

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Futures (PSSF)

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About this book

The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Policy and Law provides readers with information on developments in the two fields of environmental policy and environmental law in both developed and developing countries. In particular, the Handbook analyses policies and statutes used at the local, regional, national, and international level in locations of differing climates, governance, and levels of development that aim to protect the environment and ensure ecologically sustainable development. Furthermore, the Handbook not only examines the substance of these policies and laws, but also enforcement challenges, alternative legal mechanisms for advancing environmental policies, the role of market-based instruments in addressing environmental problems, and constitutional restrictions on environmental regulation.

Keywords

  • environmental law
  • environmental policy
  • sustainable development
  • natural resource management
  • natural resource conservation
  • environmental protection
  • environmental contaminants
  • biodiversity conservation
  • environmental pollution and waste
  • environmental social license to operate
  • green economy
  • energy conservation
  • ocean governance

About the authors

Robert Brears is the author of several books focused on water security and the green economy and EiC for two Palgrave MRWs. He is also a Palgrave Series Editor (Climate Resilient Societies). He is a Director on the International Board of the Indo Global Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture, and founder of Mitidaption & Mark and Focus. Previously he was a Visiting Scholar (non-resident) at the Center for Conflict Studies at MIIS, Monterey, United States. He is a contributing author for the World Bank's Water Blog, United Nations Industrial Development Organization's Making It Magazine, Green Growth Knowledge Platform’s Insight Blog, Johns Hopkins University’s Water Magazine, China Water Risk, Water Online and RepRisk. Robert has published widely on water security, water resources management, and related issues, and has conducted field research around the world, including Antarctica.

Jade Lindley is a criminologist and senior lecturer at the UWA Law School whose research focuses on transnational crimes and their intersection with international law. She is particularly interested in the criminal motivations to offend and the responses to control these crimes. She currently teaches units in the undergraduate Law and Society major and postgraduate courses; Graduate Diploma in International Law and the Master of International Law at UWA. Dr Lindley’s research intersects with pertinent global issues relating to human, border, environmental and food security, several of which are within the scope of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Her passion and interest in international law stems from an internship she completed at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York. Combined with her qualifications in criminology, she also worked as a researcher in global crime at the Australia Institute of Criminology, Canberra. This research combination inspired her PhD at the Australian National University, and led to a Visiting Scholar position at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London. 



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