Legislation Lags Behind Climate Change

A review of Ellen Margrethe Basse’s latest publication: ‘Environmental and Climate Legislation. What Is Covered? Why? How?’

Climate adaptation requires holistic water management, but today, complex and uncoordinated legislation stands in the way of cross-sector and cross-municipality solutions. A new book by one of Denmark’s leading environmental jurists, Professor Emerita Ellen Margrethe Basse, weaves together the legal patchwork and provides a much-needed overview of the many layers of environmental and climate law.

The book targets a wide professional audience and is aimed at caseworkers, lawyers, consultants, researchers, educators, and journalists alike – and fully lives up to its ambition of being both an introduction and a reference work. The alphabetical review of legislation and regulations in the book’s concluding legal register makes it suitable as a practical reference tool. Numerous examples from case law and political processes also give readers insight into how the rules are currently being applied in practice.

Download the review (in Danish) here