Manufacturer: CRC Press
Written By: Gary S. Moore

Environmental Law and Policy is a user-friendly, concise, inexpensive treatment of environmental law. Written to be read rather than used as a reference source, the authors provide a broad conceptual overview of environmental law while also explaining the major statutes and cases. The book is intended for four audiences - students (both graduate and undergraduate) seeking a readable study guide ...

Manufacturer: Foundation Press
Written By: James Salzman, Barton H. Thompson, Jr.

<p> As the Obama administration and the courts change the course of federal environmental law and policy, this best-selling casebook has been updated comprehensively to include the latest legal and policy developments. Each chapter includes new material exploring contemporary developments including the challenges climate change is posing to nearly every aspect of environmental law. ...

Manufacturer: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Written By: Christopher H. Schroeder, Alan S. Miller, James P. Leape Robert V. Percival

The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible explanations, expert legal insight into new and evolving regulations, and reliable compliance ...

Manufacturer: Government Institutes
Written By: Daniel M. Steinway

This work contains the statutes one may confront in a law school environmental law course. Topics covered include public health, agriculture, commerce, mineral lands, and navigable waters.

Manufacturer: West
Written By: West

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 ...

Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  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

Today's most pressing 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 major environmental threats-climate disruption, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ...

Manufacturer: Island Press
Written By: James Gustave Speth, Peter Haas

The first part of the book provides an engaging discussion of the major themes and issues that cross cut environmental law. Starting with the first chapter s brief history of environmentalism in America, the second chapter goes on to explore the importance and implications of basic themes that occur in virtually all environmental conflicts, including scientific uncertainty, market failures, ...

Manufacturer: Foundation Press
Written By: James Salzman, Barton H. Thompson Jr.

This revised edition includes the 2000 census figures. The chapter on zoning has been extended to cover smart growth and the conclusion has been updated.

Manufacturer: Island Press
Written By: Rutherford H. Platt