As the world’s population grows and the demands for natural resources increase, protected areas are becoming more important, but also more threatened. On the one hand, conservation of protected areas can contribute to the safeguarding of human rights; on the other hand, neglecting human rights can be a trigger for the mismanagement and destruction of protected areas. How can an objective and systematic approach be used to balance human rights...

This book offers a selection of the contributions presented at the EELF Conference.

This book examines the legal frameworks applying to offshore grid development under international law, European Union law and national law. It reveals that these legal frameworks have not been developed to facilitate such complex (cross-border) infrastructure.

This book contains the latest update of international and regional instruments with respect to prevention and compensation of transboundary damage caused by pipelines.

The book presents a proposal for a harmonised European liability regime and discusses possibilities to enhance the feasibility of such a reform. It calls for a stronger involvement of the public in the nuclear sector and emphasises the intrinsic link between effective safety regulation and liability and compensation mechanisms.

Founded to bring stability and investment to the war-torn countries of South-East Europe, the Energy Community has developed into Europe’s key instrument to secure energy supplies. Recent developments in Ukraine, one of the Energy Community’s members, as well as the incipient debate to create an Energy Union, highlight the importance of this organisation and its ever-increasing future relevance. This book offers unprecedented insight into all ...

This book examines the current international legal regime relevant to the intentional destruction of the environment during warfare, where it has intentionally been targeted as a ‘victim’, or somehow manipulated to serve as a ‘weapon’ of warfare.

Met dit Jaarboek Energierecht 2014 lichten de auteurs de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen toe die zich tijdens het voorbije kalenderjaar hebben voorgedaan in het domein van het energierecht (in zijn ruime betekenis).

There is an increasing debate on the way in which the EU has developed and what it must look like in the future. This debate includes a discussion on one of the core aspects of European integration: at which level should the rules be set and who decides where the authority to do so should lie? Private law has an important role to play in this discussion. Many private law rules touch on the core of the internal market as they serve to foster tr...