This Nutshell summarizes the complex field of environmental law. Findley and Farber s Environmental Law in a Nutshell provides a foundation for understanding environmental law. Expert text includes coverage of various areas, from acid rain and atomic energy, to waste disposal and wetlands. Touches upon the many statutory and common-law regulations shaping the world in which we live.

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Manufacturer: Thomson West
Written By: Roger W. Findley, Daniel A. Farber

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.

Manufacturer: West
Written By: John S. Lowe

"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions."So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. Orr describes how ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: David W. Orr

A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are ...

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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

International environmental law is often closer to home than we know, affecting the food we eat, the products we buy, and even the air we breathe. Drawing on more than two decades of experience as a government negotiator, consultant, and academic, Daniel Bodansky brings a real-world perspective on the processes by which international environmental law develops, and influences the behavior of ...

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Written By: Daniel Bodansky

"Smart Grid," compiled by TheCapitol.Net The electric grid delivers electricity from points of generation to consumers, and the electricity delivery network functions via two primary systems: the transmission system and the distribution system. The transmission system delivers electricity from power plants to distribution substations, while the distribution system delivers electricity from ...

Manufacturer: TheCapitol.Net, Inc.
Written By: Stan Mark Kaplan, Fred Sissine

  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 ...

Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Written By: Nancy K. Kubasek, Gary S. Silverman

Key Benefit: Moran approaches employment law with a focus on discrimination and employment regulation, presenting principles of law in a step-building approach and illustrating those principles with stimulating employment perspectives.Key Topics: The author examines ethical issues, offers HR advice, and covers employee lessons in the ...

Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Written By: John J. Moran

This much anticipated follow-up to Dr. Robert D. Bullard’s highly acclaimed Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color captures the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights abuses at the grassroots level around the world, and challenging government and industry. policies and globalization trends that place people ...

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Manufacturer: Sierra Club Books

Using the proven <i>Examples & Explanations</i> format, this fully updated study guide is an invaluable supplement to any environmental law, energy law or land use course. Through liberal use of chapter cross referencing, <b> Examples & Explanations: Environmental Law, Fourth Edition,</b> helps students develop a deep and integrated understanding of the many areas in ...

Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Written By: Steven Ferrey