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- examines the shifts in the compensation of environmental damage between private and public systems
- offers many supporting practical examples
Part of the book series: Tort and Insurance Law (TIL, volume 21)
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About this book
This volume examines the shifts in the compensation of environmental damage between private and public systems. Recent developments at both the European and international level are presented with a focus on the shifts relating to the compensation of oil pollution, damage arising as a result of nuclear accidents and soil pollution in particular legal systems (Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the U.S.A.). Attention is also paid to shifts between various levels of government as far as compensation for environmental damage is concerned. The authors discuss the nature of the particular shift and examine whether the shift is always from private law to public funding. The reasons for the introduction of the shifts and their effects are also examined as well as the consequences of the various shifts in the oil pollution regime from an economic perspective. New developments, such as the shift towards voluntary compensation schemes and environmental damage insurance, are presented and critically discussed.
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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shifts in Compensation for Environmental Damage
Editors: Michael Faure, Albert Verheij
Series Title: Tort and Insurance Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-71552-9
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2007
Series ISSN: 1616-8623
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 338
Topics: Civil Law, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law