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Basic Concepts in Environmental Law

From: Environmental Law, 5/e

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Provides a more thorough introduction of the basic concepts and fundamental principles of environmental law. The chapter specifically focuses on the definition of ‘environment,’ pollution and pollution prevention, conservation, sustainable development, biodiversity and adaptive management.

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Jamie Benidickson

Jamie Benidickson is a member of the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, where he teaches environmental law and administrative law. He is the author of Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed (UBC Press, 2019). His previous publications include The Temagami Experience: Recreation, Resources and Aboriginal Rights in the Northern Ontario Wilderness (University of Toronto Press, 1989), Idleness, Water and a Canoe: Reflections on Paddling for Pleasure (University of Toronto Press, 1997), and The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage (UBC Press, 2007).