ABSTRACT
There are several good books which cover environmental law in England and Wales (see the texts and other materials listed at the end of Chapter 1, which also refer to texts covering environmental law in Scotland and Northern Ireland). Nonlawyers will quickly come to realise that the information in legal textbooks cannot be absorbed by a cursory browse through the chapters which correspond to the topics on your module. The contents of textbooks have to be read and re-read until the reader understands the points which are being made. Your course/ module handouts will almost certainly not provide you with all the information you must know and be able to apply to enable you to answer examination questions and assessed essays. Your course handouts provide you with a framework for your studies. That framework must be supplemented by studying your textbook(s), case reports, relevant extracts from legislation and journal articles. If you are prepared to devote an appropriate amount of time to your studies, you should do well. If for any reason you encounter problems understanding the course material, the onus is on you to discuss the matter with your environmental law tutor. At the end of Chapter 1, we have also referred you to environmental casebooks which contain key extracts of legislation and case reports. At the end of most of the chapters in this text, we have made a reference to the corresponding chapter in the Sourcebook on Environmental Law, written by Sunkin, Ong and Wight.
