Philippine environmental laws : an overview and assessment by Rodrigo V. Cosico.

This book focuses on the basic or fundamental aspects of Environmental Laws. It presents a brief overview of Environmental Laws and provides a close scrutiny or assessment thereof. Specifically, this book discusses the major aspects of Environmental laws such as right to environment, environmental problems and environmental justice. It is the objective of this book to know the nature and extent of the judiciary's role in the protection of our environment and the promotion of environmental justice as well as landmark of the Supreme Court involving the environment. This book seeks to address through Environmental laws a great number of environmental problems ranging from forest degradation, loss of biodiversity, water pollution, air pollution and solid waste pollution, among other problems. This book cites significant international commitments of the Philippines relating to the environment and the environmental laws passes by Congress. (Source: http://central.com.ph)