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Society's use and management of water relies on professional expertise spanning diverse fields: from biology and technology to economics and law. This book examines current issues related to regulating water through chapters summarizing various sets of regulation as well as chapters that take a scientific deep dive into selected themes. The diversity of professional expertise is also reflected in the law aspect. We explore such subjects as surface runoff, natural disasters, drinking water, groundwater, salmon, hydropower, and human rights, as well as general impact assessment requirements and duty of knowledge in environmental law administration. A key objective of the book has been to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of the legal circumstances associated with water, and in addition, deliberate the pros and cons of some of the current regulations. This book will be particularly useful for those who in various ways support and facilitate procedures within the public sector at both the national and municipal levels. It will also be useful for private sector actors seeking familiarity with legal questions that can arise in relation to public administration and other private actors. From a broader perspective, we hope the book can help to throw light on conflicts between different interests and groups within society that occur, for example, when introducing fees, special injunctions against private actors, and requirements for knowledge basis. This book project is the result of legal research conducted at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and is supplemented by national expertise in several areas. It has been edited by Steinar Taubøll, a professor at NMBU's Department of Property and Law. Taubøll has a background in both law and the natural sciences, and extensive experience with interdisciplinary work.

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Environmental Groups and Legal Expertise explores the use and understanding of law and legal expertise by environmental groups. Rather than the usual focus on the court room, it scrutinises environmental NGO advocacy during the extraordinarily dramatic Brexit process, from the referendum on leaving the EU in June 2016 to the debate around the new Environment Bill in the first half of 2020. There is generally a weak understanding of both the complexity and the potential of legal expertise in the environmental NGO community. Legal expertise can be more than a tool for campaigners, and more than litigation: it provides distinctive ways of both seeing the world and changing the world. The available legal resource in the sector is not just a practical limit on what can be done, but spills into the very understanding of what should be done, and what resource is needed. Mutually reinforcing links between capacity, understanding, culture and investment affect legal expertise across the board. There are, however, pockets of sophisticated legal expertise in the community, and legal expertise was heavily and often effectively used in the anomalously law-heavy Brexit-environment debate. The ability to call on thinly spread legal expertise in a crisis was in part due to effective NGO collaboration around Brexit-environment.

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Cet ouvrage présente une méthode inédite de mesurage de l'effectivité du droit de l'environnement tant national qu'international. Il est le fruit de quatre ans de recherches et d'expérimentations afin de mettre au point la façon de construire des indicateurs juridiques. Les seuls indicateurs existants sur l'environnement ne mesurent que des données statistiques, scientifiques ou économiques. Grâce à des indicateurs juridiques, les gouvernements, les parlements, les acteurs économiques et sociaux et les ONG d'environnement pourront apprécier concrètement, sur un fondement scientifique, quelles sont les lacunes, les avancées et les régressions dans les modalités d'application des conventions internationales et des lois nationales. Les indicateurs juridiques serviront d'outils d'aide à la décision, notamment pour procéder à des réformes en connaissance de cause et non plus à l'aveuglette. La méthode mathématique utilisée permet, à partir d'un questionnaire mettant en avant toutes les étapes juridiques et institutionnelles de l'application des textes juridiques, de fournir des données soulignant les points à améliorer et les points forts de l'application du droit. Cette mise à jour d'un premier ouvrage de 2018 publié par l'Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD) a été rendue possible grâce à l'appui de la Chaire d'excellence Normandie pour la paix (CNRS, Région Normandie, Maison de la recherche en sciences humaines (MRSH) et de l'Université de Caen - France). Une ligne de recherche est dédiée à cette thématique des indicateurs juridiques et la Chaire d'excellence formule le vœu d'une large diffusion de cet ouvrage accessible en open access en anglais, français et en espagnol.

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