Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, And Policy

Oil and Gas Law in a Nutshell

Reliable source on oil and gas law. This authoritative coverage focuses on the legal rules that govern the development of privately owned mineral rights, which often also apply to governmentally owned resources. Text covers topics such as the nature, protection, and conveying of oil and gas rights, leasing, and taxation.

Environmental Law (6th Edition)

This fundamental introduction to environmental law is designed to introduce those without any legal or special scientific training to the system through which the nation attempts to preserve and protect the different aspects of our environment. Environmental law and policy; air quality control; water quality control; toxic substance control; waste management and hazardous releases; energy; natural resources; and international environmental law. For anyone who is in business or anyone who is simply interested in environmental issues or who has a job where they have to understand environmental law.

Environmental Law Handbook

This Nineteenth Edition references all regulatory changes made in the last two years and provides legal insight into understanding the requirements of the environmental laws. It examines all of the issues and changes that have arisen since the publication of the Eighteenth Edition.

Selected Environmental Law Statutes, 2008-2009 Educational Edition

This work contains the statutes one may confront in a law school environmental law course. Coverage includes public health, agriculture, commerce, mineral lands, and navigable waters.

Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society

Environmental Law and Policy, (Concepts & Insights Series) (Concepts and Insights Series)

The first part of the book provides an engaging discussion of the major themes and issues that cross cut environmental law. Starting with the first chapter s brief history of environmentalism in America, the second chapter goes on to explore the importance and implications of basic themes that occur in virtually all environmental conflicts, including scientific uncertainty, market failures, problems of scale, public choice theory, etc. It then presents three dominant perspectives in the field that drive policy development environmental rights, utilitarianism, and environmental justice. Chapter Three fills in the remaining legal background for understanding environmental protection, reviewing the theory of instrument choice, the basics of administrative law, core concepts in constitutional law (e.g., takings, the commerce clause), and the doctrines associated with how citizen groups shape environmental law such as standing.The second part of the book examines the substance of environmental law, with separate sections on each of the major statutes. International issues such as ozone depletion, climate change, and transboundary waste disposal are also addressed. These chapters build on the themes and conceptual framework laid down in the first part of the text in order to integrate the discussion of individual statutes into a broad portrait of the law.

Environmental Law Examples & Explanations

International Environmental Law and Policy (University Casebook Series)

International Environmental Law and Policy explores the dynamics of the lawmaking process and the increasingly critical role of transnational actors/citizens, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), scientists, and business. Discusses the relation of our scientific understanding to the legal response and the relation of the problem to the global economy. Includes explanation of the use of soft law, framework agreements, binding obligations, the precautionary principle, and polluter pays principle. Describes role of technology transfer and multilateral and bilateral financial mechanisms.

Natural Resources Law and Policy 2004 (University Casebook Series)