Table of Contents

Regulatory standards and environmental law; the history of environmental standards; setting standards - how and why?; the regulators and standard setting; scientific techniques in assessing the environmental impacts of pollutants; science, risk assessment and the concept of safety; philosophies underlying risk assessment and standard setting; the legal forms of standard setting; environmental standards and water; environmental standards and land; evaluating the future of environmental standards and sustainable development.

About the Author

John McEldowney is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick. He has written widely in the field of public law and regulation. He is co-author (with Sharron McEldowney) of Law and the Environment. Sharron McEldowney is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology at the University of Westminster. She is the co-editor of the International Journal of Biosciences and the Law and has written widely in the field of science and the law.

Reviews

It is written in a clear and systematic manner and includes recent developments in the environment sector ... should be particularly useful to undergraduate students. Fiona Brown, Water and Environmental Management Journal: Vol 16, No 1, March 2002