Nature's Trust

Nature's Trust
Author: Mary Christina Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2014
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521195136

This book exposes the dysfunction of environmental law and offers a transformative approach based on the public trust doctrine. An ancient and enduring principle, the public trust doctrine empowers citizens to protect their inalienable property rights to crucial resources. This book shows how a trust principle can apply from the local to global level to protect the planet.

Combating Climate Change with Section 115 of the Clean Air Act

Combating Climate Change with Section 115 of the Clean Air Act
Author: Michael Burger
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781786434609

Editor Michael Burger brings together a comprehensive assessment of how one statutory provision - Section 115 of the Clean Air Act, "International Air Pollution" - provides the executive branch of the U.S. government with the authority, procedures, and mechanisms to work with the states and private sector to take national climate action. This collaborative effort reflects the most current thinking on Section 115 and how it relates to the Paris Agreement , the U.S. Supreme Court, and U.S. politics. The contributors dive deep into the key implementation issues EPA, the states and industry would need to address.Federal policymakers in a new presidential administration could use this book as a foundation for developing a national policy regulating greenhouse gas emissions. The book also provides detailed law and policy analyses for environmental lawyers and policy professionals, key to understanding the practice of climate law and policy in the U.S.

Environmental Law

Environmental Law
Author: Peter S. Menell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351760580

This title was first published in 2002. Since the importance of environmental governance was realised in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this vibrant area of law has witnessed much change. Assembling insightful essays from a number of key contributors, Environmental Law takes stock of developments to date and outlines the challenges for the future.

The Black Book

The Black Book
Author: Meera Kaura Patel
Publisher: Universal Law Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2011
Genre: Citation of legal authorities
ISBN: 9788175349933

Transforming the Appalachian Countryside

Transforming the Appalachian Countryside
Author: Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807862975

In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.

From the Ground Up

From the Ground Up
Author: Luke W. Cole
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814715376

Cole (director, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation's Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment) and Foster (law, Rutgers University) examine the movement for environmental justice in the United States. Tracing the movement's roots and illustrating the historical and contemporary causes of environmental racism, they combine their analysis with a narrative account of struggles from around the country--including those in Kettleman City, California, Chester, Pennsylvania, and Dilkon, Arizona. In so doing, they consider the transformative effects this movement has had on individuals, communities, and environmental policy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Principles of International Environmental Law I

Principles of International Environmental Law I
Author: Philippe Sands
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 860
Release: 1995
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780719034831

This post-UNCED account of the frameworks, standards and implementation of the international environmental law is intended for undergraduates and academics in the fields of international law, politics, geography, economics and environmental studies. It can be used on its own as a reference or course text or in conjunction with its companion collections of documents.

Journal Holdings Report

Journal Holdings Report
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Information Management and Services Division
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1990
Genre: Environmental protection
ISBN: