Shifts in Compensation for Environmental Damage
ISBN: 9783211715529
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Springer Vienna
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited

In many countries, various shifts have taken place between private and public funding regarding environmental damage compensation. This book theoretically examines these shifts and offers many supporting practical examples. Coverage also examines shifts in private and public compensation mechanisms and describes shifts in some national legal systems towards greater government involvement as well as within specific private legal systems.


List of Contributors

Tom Vanden Borre, Commission for the Regulation of Electricity and Gas (CREG), Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC), Institute for Environmental and Energy Law (IMER), Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Michael Faure, Maastricht Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO), Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Ruud Hendrickx, Faculty of Economics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

Kristel De Smedt, University of Hasselt, Belgium.

Albert Verheij, worked on this project while at the Centre for Liability Law, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is currently attorney with Stibbe in association with Herbert Smith and Gleiss Lutz, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Hui Wang, Institute for Environmental and Energy Law, KU Leuven, Belgium.

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