Environmental Rights, Property and the Public Interest in Times of Land-Use Transformation
Land-use transformation – including brownfield regeneration, infrastructure development and renewable energy projects – generates conflicts between environmental protection, property rights and the public interest in territorial development. Section focuses on how legal systems respond to these conflicts and how they balance environmental protection, economic development and a fair distribution of benefits and burdens.
We particularly welcome contributions addressing:
• legal aspects of brownfield regeneration and redevelopment,
• the relationship between spatial planning, permitting procedures and environmental protection,
• conflicts between the public interest and private rights in large-scale projects (transport infrastructure, industrial zones, renewable energy),
• environmental justice and the distribution of environmental risks and impacts,
• the role of environmental procedural rights (access to information, public participation, access to justice) in land-use decision-making,
• new tools and trends in land-use governance (participatory planning, strategic environmental assessment, voluntary instruments).
Guarantors of the section:
doc. JUDr. Michal Maslen, PhD.
JUDr. Matúš Michalovič, PhD.
The section is organized as part of the VEGA project No. 1/0625/25 – Environmental democracy and environmental justice in the legal order of the Slovak Republic in the 21st century.