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Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. Global environmental problems cannot be solved by national environmental regulations alone. The corporate assault on environmentalism 1997, by sharon beder. The book is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of law, environmental science, environmental management and the environmental economics disciplines. Discover librarianselected research resources on environmental law from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more.
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