Environment Act 2021: Text, Guide and Analysis

The Environment Act 2021 is a significant new environmental Statute with commentary and analysis by leading experts. It includes long-term environmental targets, core principles, an independent statutory body, waste management, water resource management, air quality, and nature and biodiversity protection. It is essential reading for anyone involved in environmental law.

Format: Hardback
Length: 512 pages
Publication date: 16 June 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Environment Act 2021 is a significant and wide-reaching new environmental Statute that has been reproduced in this book, accompanied by commentary and a section-by-section analysis written by two of the UK's leading experts in environmental law. The book comments on and analyses the main provisions of the Act, including a requirement on government to establish long-term environmental targets and environmental improvement plans, legal recognition for core environmental principles such as the precautionary principle and the polluter pays principle, the establishment of a new independent statutory body, the Office for Environmental Protection, substantial provisions on waste including producer responsibility and resource efficiency, provisions on water resource management, water abstraction and drainage and sewerage, strengthening of controls on air quality, and new provisions concerning the protection of nature and biodiversity, including the creation of conservation covenants. This comprehensive and practical guide to the new legislation will be of significant value to anyone involved in environmental law in both the private and public sector, particularly practitioners and those advising on the impact and ambit of environmental law. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Environmental Law online service.

Weight: 607g
Dimension: 244 x 169 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509951024