Natural Law category: 200 books
by Cameron Holley, Neil Gunningham, Clifford Shearing
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
A bold and profoundly new way of governing environmental problems is palpable around the globe and aims to overcome the limitations of the interventionist state and its market alternative to offer more effective and legitimate solutions to today's most pressing environmental problems. The 'new environmental...
Wilderness Protection in Europe
The Role of International, European and National Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Europe still retains large areas which play host to numerous native and free-functioning ecosystems and lack roads, buildings, bridges, cables and other permanent manifestations of modern society. In the past such areas were considered wastelands, whose value lay only in their potential for cultivation...
Oil and Gas Sale and Purchase Agreements
SPAs for International Oil and Gas Acquisitions and Divestitures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Acquisitions and divestitures are common occurrences in the international oil and gas industry, ranging in size and complexity from transformational mergers between supermajors to transactions at an individual asset level. They are used in order to manage both costs and risks. Although the recent...
Sustainability Unpacked
Food, Energy and Water for Resilient Environments and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Food, water and energy form some of the basic elements of sustainability considerations. This ground-breaking book examines and decodes these elements, exploring how a range of countries make decisions regarding their energy and bio-resource consumption and procurement. The authors consider how these...
National Environmental Accounting
Bridging the Gap between Ecology and Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book presents national environmental, or 'green' accounting as it has developed in Europe and other parts of the world. It introduces the most recent methods developed through the United Nations Statistical Department and other international organizations, but bridges the gap between the superficial...
Pastoralism and Common Pool Resources
Rangeland co-management, property rights and access in Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "the tragedy of the commons". Drawing on the classic work of Elinor Ostrom and the readings of political ecology, this book questions the application of exclusive property rights...
The Southwest Under Stress
National Resource Development Issues in a Regional Setting
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Southwest Under Stress examines the development-environment conflict in the four contiguous states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. It emphasizes three issues with implications that extend far beyond the Southwest: water---its quantity, quality, and allocation; environment---how and to...
America's Renewable Resources
Historical Trends and Current Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
By recording one country's experience with its vast natural resource base, America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges will help to inform the management of future demands on the resource base in the U.S. and throughout the world. The contributors focus specifically on...
The Equitable Forest
Diversity, Community, and Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
While there continues to be refinement in defining and assessing sustainable management, there remains the urgent need for policies that create the conditions that support sustainability and can halt or slow destructive practices already underway. Carol Colfer and her contributors maintain that standardized...
Asking the Earth
Farms, Forestry and Survival in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the practice is limited.
This book is an account of one, large, instance of success in practice. Twenty-five...
Perspectives On Conservation
Essays on America's Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
A collection of papers based on those prepared by authorities who participated in the 1958 RFF forum, including contributions by Samuel Hays and John Kenneth Galbraith. Originally published in 1958
Human Health and Forests
A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. One vital aspect of their lives, yet largely unexamined, is the challenge of protecting and enhancing the unique relationship between the health of forests and the health of people. This book, written for a broad audience, is...
A Sustainable Future for the Mediterranean
The Blue Plan's Environment and Development Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
'Here's a work arriving just at the right moment and contributingnew insights at precisely the time when public opinion remains sceptical of the not very promising future we are preparing for our children, when governments balk at explaining to their electorates the vital but unpopular decisions that...
Plantation Politics
Forest plantations in development
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Plantations are playing an increasingly important part in the development and the economies of the South. Plantation Politics is the first book to examine their rationale and purpose, exposing the misconceptions and myths that have surrounded their role, and describing the contribution they can make...