Environmental Law provides a comprehensive and succinct examination of the entire environmental law landscape in South Africa. The second edition includes a new chapter on climate change, and also examines the following recent developments: the new environmental impact assessment (EIA) regime (2010 regulations); several amendments to the National Environmental Management Act and other environmental legislation; the new National Environmental Management: Waste Act; the new National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act; several important developments in delegated legislation; and numerous new cases, including the far-reaching Fuel Retailers decision in the Constitutional Court.

• Introduction
• The Constitution and framework environmental legislation
• International environmental law
• Water law and the environment
• Conservation of biodiversity
• Pollution control and waste management
• Land use and planning
• Implementation and administration of environmental law
• Environmental justice: a South African perspective
• South Africa’s position on climate change
• CD-ROM containing important environmental legislation and leading cases