From the common law foundation to globalization and convergence, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY: Nature, Law, and Society, Third Edition, will keep your course at the forefront of the ever-developing body of environmental law.
Geared to undergraduate or graduate courses in Environmental Law. Also works well as a supplemental text in an Environmental Policy course. This fundamental introduction to environmental law explains the legal system and process in general, discusses specific environmental laws, and presents the scientific background necessary for understanding ...
Mark Sagoff draws on the last twenty years of debate over the foundations of environmentalism in this comprehensive revision of The Economy of the Earth. Posing questions pertinent to consumption, cost-benefit analysis, the normative implications of neo-Darwinism, the role of the natural in national history, and the centrality of the concept of ...
Combining the two main approaches to teaching this broad area, this volume examines environmental law, including pollution control, and the natural resources law course covering conservation, energy and other aspects. This expansion of coverage promotes a fuller understanding of these complex issues, and can provide either a once-through general ...
For its fifth edition, "Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy" retains its distinctly accessible tone while incorporating important new material that reflects the exciting activity in the field. These popular features make the casebook a favorite of both students and instructors: comprehensive coverage with self-contained chapters ...
Written by 15 nationally recognized environmental law experts, this new edition maintains the first edition's original goal to provide users with reliable, accurate, and practical compliance information by addressing all changes made to the laws in the past two years. Using clear language with a minimum of legal jargon, this essential 697-page ...
Need access to the basics? This popular handbook uses a practical and easy-to-read approach to explaining the scope of environmental regulations and providing concise yet comprehensive discussions of 38 federal environmental acts. New areas covered in this edition include Prevention of Pollution from Ships, Shore Protection Act, National Coastal ...
This second edition of Philippe Sand's leading textbook on international environmental law provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the subject, revised to December 2002. It considers relevant new topics, including the Kyoto Protocol, genetically modified organisms, oil pollution, chemicals etc. and will remain the most comprehensive ...
250 straightforward answers to the most important questions business professionals have about complying with ISO 14000 This timely reference provides practical, capsule answers to 250 crucial questions about ISO 14000, ranging from the environmental standard's unique requirements to the technical specifics of complying with its legal requirements. ...
Taking a fresh, analytical approach, Mark P. Thompson introduces students to the basic principles of modern land law. Explaining and exploring all the key features of the subject, this concise and engaging text offers comprehensive and accessible coverage of all the major topics studied by undergraduates, addressing contemporary debates, and ...
Despite decades of policy experimentation, the ultimate goal of efficient and effective environmental regulation has continued to elude policy-makers and regulatory theorists. The less than satisfactory performance of both government and market approaches to environmental protection has led to the introduction of a broader range of policy ...
Offering state-of-the-art techniques for both attorneys and environmental scientists, "Environmental Forensics: Principles and Applications" discusses non-chemical methods such as corrosion modeling, inventory reconciliation, and aerial photography interpretation. The book also covers chemical fingerprinting used to identify the origin and age of ...
This foundation for understanding environmental law includes coverage of various areas from acid rain and atomic energy to waste disposal and wetlands. The text touches on many statutory and common-law regulations shaping the world.
The first edition of "Public Policies for Environmental Protection" contributed significantly to the incorporation of economic analysis in the study of environmental policy. Fully revised to account for changes in the institutional, legal, and regulatory framework of environmental policy, the second edition includes extensively updated chapters on ...
Dorsey (history, U. of New Hampshire) examines the first three comprehensive wildlife conservation treaties in history, all between the US and Canada: the Inland Fisheries Treaty of 1908, the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, and the Migratory Bird Treaty of 1916. He argues that the pacts
This book presents an argument for environmental human rights as the basis of intergenerational environmental justice. It argues that the rights to clean air, water, and soil should be seen as the environmental human rights of both present and future generations. It presents several new conceptualizations central to the development of theories of ...
In addition to the wide range of quality textbooks specially created for paralegal programs, Aspen Law & Business also offers a number of law school resources that you may find suitable for use in your course area. Each book in this popular series offers a winning combination of text, examples, and explanations as it guides students to a more ...
Vietzen (Elgin Community College) examines the basic concepts of environmental law for paralegals, stressing the fact that this area of the law is expanding quickly due to concerns about climate change. This textbook splits the study of environmental law into sources and applications with specific relevant statutes, with an emphasis on how due ...
Environmental law and policy in India affects most sections of society. This edition scrutinizes almost every aspect of environmental law concerned with constitutional and legislative provisions, judicial remedies and procedures, water pollution control, air pollution control, forests, wild life protection, the Bhopal gas leak case, transnational ...
International law has become the key arena for protecting the global environment. Since the 1970s, literally hundreds of international treaties, protocols, conventions, and rules under customary law have been enacted to deal with such problems as global warming, biodiversity loss, and toxic pollution. Proponents of the legal approach to ...
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