Preface

AutorAgustín García Ureta/María Del Carmen Bolaño Piñeiro
Cargo del AutorDirección/Coordinación
Páginas9-10
PREFACE
1. This book includes the contributions submitted to a conference
titled New Perspectives on Environmental Law in the 21th Century,
held in Bilbao on 24-25 October 2017.
2. The conference aimed to provoke a discussion on a series of
topics of interest in uncertain times for environmental law.
a) On the one hand, the development of this branch of the Law
is apparent as well as its impact on other laws. It is for this reason that
environmental law techniques are nowadays invoked to explain mat-
ters pertaining to so called «substantive» or general law sections (e. g.,
administrative or civil liability matters). In addition, new issues demand
proper consideration of their genesis and impact on decision-making
processes and, ultimately, on citizens in general, as it is the case of the
right to food or (more properly) to food internalizing its consequences
for the environment, as it happens (albeit not only) with genetically
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on natural catastrophes, or the consequences derived from the Paris
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bat this worldwide phenomenon. Admittedly, all the issues addressed
in the conference are not «new», as some of them (e. g., the control of
the application of European environmental law, inspection powers for
monitoring activities likely to impair the environment, or the protection
of biodiversity in a new geological age called the «Anthropocene»)
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issue addressed in the conference (environmental courts) may also
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
surrounding the protection of the environment.

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