Natural Law category: 200 books
Natural Environments
Studies in Theoretical & Applied Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This study represents the first scholarly attempt to consider the difficult allocation problems associated with management of natural resources and proposed changes in the natural environment. Originally published in 1973
Development Through Bricolage
Rethinking Institutions for Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Why, despite an emphasis on 'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource management (e.g. Water User Associations, Irrigation Committees, Forest Management Councils) not work as planners intended?...
Infrastructure
The Social Value of Shared Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future...
by P. Andrew Jones, Tom Cech
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Why do people fight about water rights? Who decides how much water can be used by a city or irrigator? Does the federal government get involved in state water issues? Why is water in Colorado so controversial? These questions, and others like them, are addressed in Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers....
Arbitration of International Mining Disputes
Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
International mining disputes represent a significant and growing area of disputes over natural resources, yet the unique risks inherent in the mining industry set them apart, both in the nature of the disputes and the approach taken to resolve them. International arbitration has emerged as the mechanism...
Struggling for Air
Power Plants and the "War on Coal"
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "War on Coal." As evidence of this supposed siege, they point to a series of rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency that aim to slash air pollution from the nation's power sector...
Water Policy in the Netherlands
Integrated Management in a Densely Populated Delta
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
As a low-lying delta region with a high population density, the Netherlands has long focused on the prevention of flooding catastrophes and the reclamation of valuable land. The evolution of Dutch water governance, beginning with the creation of local 'water boards' in the Middle Ages and growing...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...
European Energy Law and Policy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
EU energy law and policy have become more and more complex in recent years. Today these areas feature a multitude of layers concerning not only regulation of the power industry, but also security of energy supply, climate change, consumer needs and technical innovation. This textbook serves as an introduction...
Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa
From Concept to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African Highlands Initiative (AHI). It does this through reflections of the protagonists themselves—AHI site...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Water is a basic human need, and despite predictions of "water wars," shared waters have proven to be the natural resource with the greatest potential for interstate cooperation and local confidence building. Indeed, water management plays a singularly important role in rebuilding trust...
Sharing Power
A Global Guide to Collaborative Management of Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The collaborative or �co�-management of natural resources - whether between states and local communities or amongst and within communities themselves - is a process of collective understanding and actions to bring about negotiated agreements on roles, rights and responsibilities for decentralized...
Agricultural Land Use and Natural Gas Extraction Conflicts
A Global Socio-Legal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Onshore unconventional gas operations, in most jurisdictions, operate on the legal principle that all activities during exploration and extraction are ‘temporary’ in nature. The concept that the onshore unconventional gas industry has a temporary effect on the land on which it operates creates...
Southern African Development Community Land Issues
Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book constitutes volume one of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa. In this volume, Ben Chigara undertakes a holistic inter-disciplinary evaluation of the legitimacy of colonial and emergent post-colonial rule property rights in affected States of...