LeRoy C Paddock, David L Markell and Nicholas S Bryner (eds), Compliance and Enforcement of Environmental Law

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DOI10.3366/elr.2018.0472
Published date01 January 2018
Date01 January 2018
Pages169-170

In a review of an earlier volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law ((2017) 21.3 Edin LR 455–456) my conclusion was that the book was “very useful”. This fourth volume in the series is even more successful and has immediately earned a place on my reading lists for students. Compared to earlier volumes it is shorter (260 pages of text), has a narrower focus and in each of the nineteen chapters the authors have more consciously set out to provide an overview of their topic, drawing together the leading literature and providing comparative insights from a range of jurisdictions. There is thus, in a very positive way, more of a textbook feel about each chapter which makes this book an excellent source for anyone wanting to know about the broad subject encompassed by its title, whether as an introductory overview or a springboard to deeper analysis.

As in the earlier volumes of the Encyclopedia, the contributors (in this case from the USA, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands) have only about a dozen pages to address their...

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