This is basic text which offers a comprehensive approach to the
consideration of environmental protection law and practice. Essential
concepts and issues in Environmental science, including global warming
caused by greenhouse effect, negative and positive feedback, the Gala
hypothesis, the Chaos theory, environmental economics principles of
cost-benefit analysis, tradable permits, and other topics, have been
explained in such detailed but straightforward manner for the law
student, law lecturer, legal practitioner and even the general reader,
who may otherwise feel unfamiliar with some of these scientific subjects
critical to appreciating the law in the area, to comprehend quite
easily. Of tremendous benefit of the legal practitioner, researchers and
judges, this book also examines a lot of cases of environmental
protection both in Nigeria and foreign jurisdictions, such as the United
Kingdom, United States, India, the Philippines, and a host of other
countries mostly within the common law tradition. The intention is to
give life to the cold principles of environmental protection law by
examining the cases in which environmental legal principles have been
applied. It is hoped that environmental law students, law lecturers,
legal practitioners and policymakers should find this book
indispensible, and judges, too, in their adjudication of technical
environmental matters.
