Environment under threat without greater cooperation between devolved nations and UK government
The Brexit and Environment network has spent the last year researching the implications of Brexit for environmental policy, with a ...
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Blueprint for a new Environment Act: Comments welcome by 31 October
Brexit & Environment's researchers have recently been involved with a project led by the Broadway Initiative 'to generate ideas and proposals ...
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Luxembourg, here we come! A comment on the Wightman decision
The legal aspects of the Brexit process have just become more complicated with the decision of the Scottish courts to ...
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Brexit and water law: Implications for the UK and Scotland
The recent heatwaves, and accompanying drought, have flagged up the importance of water policy – and water law – as ...
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Delivering a ‘Green Brexit’: A summary of academic evidence to Defra’s environmental governance consultation
From 10 May to 2 August 2018, the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ran a public ...
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Can Brexit bring a better way to protect the environment?
By Professor Richard Cowell, Cardiff University. This blog post was originally published on the Royal Town Planning Institute Blog. Faced ...
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Environmental principles and governance: Brexit and Environment’s key messages
From 10 May to 2 August 2018, the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ran a public ...
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What is the future of environmental governance in Northern Ireland?
By Ciara Brennan, Mary Dobbs, Viviane Gravey and Attracta Uí Bhroin, authors of a recent report on what Brexit means ...
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UK under dangerous pressure to lower its sustainability commitments
It’s not surprising that the government’s recent white paper was controversial. “Taking back control” of UK regulation was one of ...
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In the absence of fines: The role of negotiation in the enforcement of environmental law
Much of the attention focusing on the post-Brexit environmental law has focused on the creation of a public authority able ...
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Environmental principles as legal foundations of UK environmental policy: Bedrocks or minefields?
Environmental principles are now fundamental ideas in environmental law and policy across the world. In a variety of political contexts ...
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Post-Brexit animal welfare policy: The case for an animal sentience principle
An on-going issue for post-Brexit environmental policy and animal welfare concerns whether and which environmental principles will apply in the ...
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