Bettina Lange

Environmental Law: Text, Cases, and Materials has been designed to provide students with everything they need to approach the subject with confidence. Experts in the area, the authors combine clear and insightful commentary with carefully chosen extracts from UK and international sources to offer students a well-rounded view of the subject area. Covering a broad range of topics, the authors introduce discussion on controversies and debates and encourage readers to engage in critical reflection by posing regular discussion questions throughout the text. Further reading suggestions point students towards useful resources, guiding their independent research. Online Resources This book is also accompanied by online updates collated by the authors, helping students to stay well-informed.

Through a detailed analysis this book examines the role of law in European Union integration processes through the implementation of the EU Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control at European Level and in the UK and Germany. The book questions traditional conceptions which perceive law as the 'formal law in the books', as instrumental and as relatively autonomous in relation to its social contexts. The book also discusses in depth how the key legal obligation on the Directive, to employ 'the best available techniques', is actually implemented. This research locates the analysis of the implementation of the IPPC Directive in the wider context of current, cutting-edge political science and sociology of law debates about the role of law in EU integration processes, the nature of EU law, new modes of governance and the significance of 'law in action' for understanding legal process.

machen, haben, gehen und kommen werden in dieser empirischen Arbeit als produktive Einheiten des Sprechens Drei- bis Funfjahriger untersucht. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt dabei auf dem Zusammenhang zwischen der pragmatischen Verankerung und der syntaktischen Verwendung dieser Verben. Sie werden zu der Gruppe der "Passepartout"-Verben formiert, um damit deutlich zu machen, dass sie als "Universalschlussel" des Sprechens weniger durch ihre (ausserst plastische) lexikalische Bedeutung als vielmehr durch ihre grammatische Modellfunktion zu verstehen sind. In diesem Zusammenhang wird eine "zweite Phase" des Verberwerbs modelliert, in der es zu einer neuen Produktivitat im Gebrauch der Verben kommt.