Natural Law category: 200 books
by Emília Lana de Freitas Castro
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Este livro intenta demonstrar como o Direito Internacional dos Investimentos e o direito ao desenvolvimento podem contribuir para uma indústria fortemente caracterizada pela sua internacionalidade, qual seja, a indústria do petróleo e do gás natural. Com o fito de minimizar os impactos negativos...
The Snail Darter and the Dam
How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish that blocked completion of a TVA dam is still invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the lawyer who with his students fought and won the Supreme...
Global Environmental Governance
Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
Today's mpressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them?
Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten...
Taking Back Eden
Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Taking Back Eden is the gripping tale of an idea—that ordinary people have the right to go to court to defend their environment—told through the stories of lawsuits brought in eight countries around the world. Starting in the United States in the l960’s, this idea is now traveling the planet,...
by Little Green Apples Publishing, LLC ™
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The Negotiation Skills Study Brief provides a quick reference to key terms and concepts related to the specialized skills and techniques involved in the art of effective negotiation. This Study Brief is intended for students of communications, law, business, marketing, or management. It is also...
The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management
Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
How can a place be built and managed so that it is safe for people to live? Ironically, many governments and citizens keep on asking the same question after every new disaster. Why, even with high levels of investment in increasing government’s capacity to manage disasters, do the impacts of disasters...
The Privatisation of Biodiversity?
New Approaches to Conservation Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Current regulatory approaches have not prevented the loss of biodiversity across the world. This book explores the scope to strengthen conservation by using different legal mechanisms such as biodiversity offsetting, payment for ecosystem services and conservation covenants, as well as tradable development...
Contested Common Land
Environmental Governance Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This innovative and interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to common pool resource studies. It offers a new perspective on the sustainable governance of common resources, grounded in contemporary and archival research on the common lands of England and Wales - an important common resource...
Arizona Water Policy
Management Innovations in an Urbanizing, Arid Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The central challenge for Arizona and many other arid regions in the world is keeping a sustainable water supply in the face of rapid population growth and other competing demands. This book highlights new approaches that Arizona has pioneered for managing its water needs. The state has burgeoning...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Clean Air Act remains one of the most significant and complex pieces of environmental legislation in the country's history. Since its inception, the Clean Air Act has arguably had a greater impact on the lives of Americans than any other environmental statute, and it promises to continue this...
International Energy Governance
Selected Legal Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a world that is hungry for energy security, the legal components at the junction of interstate energy cooperation have become increasingly important. International law as it stands today is not equipped to handle international energy governance issues fully, negatively affecting our aim to meet energy...
Toward Safer Food
Perspectives on Risk and Priority Setting
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
In 1998, a National Academy of Sciences panel called for an integrated, risk-based food safety system. This goal is widely embraced, but there has been little advance in thinking about how to integrate knowledge about food safety risks into a system- wide risk analysis framework. Such a framework...
Sharing the Common Pool
Water Rights in the Everyday Lives of Texans
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
If all the people, municipalities, agencies, businesses, power plants, and other entities that think they have a right to the water in Texas actually tried to exercise those rights, there would not be enough water to satisfy all claims, no matter how legitimate. In Sharing the Common Pool: Water Rights...
by William Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Most people cringe when they hear the word physics. Physics is a very technical science that most people rely on every day, but do not really care to understand. Things work, and that is enough for most of us. Solving Crimes with Physics delves into the use of this challenging science to give readers...