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  • The Rule of Five

    Making Climate History at the Supreme Court

    Winner of the Julia Ward Howe Prize“The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the Supreme Court.”—Scott Turow“In the tradition of A Civil Action, this book makes a compelling story of the court fight that paved the way for regulating the emissions now overheating the planet. It offers a poignant reminder of how far we’ve come—and how far we still must go.” ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Real Estate Law

    Fundamentals for The Development Process

    Unlike existing textbooks written for law students on specific subjects impacting real estate transactions, Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process uses "The Development Process" as a framework for understanding how the U.S. legal system regulates, facilitates, and generally impacts real estate transactions and their outcomes.This book not only addresses the nature of specific ... Read more

    $240.99 USD

  • Derecho ambiental y gobernanza : la concertación como actuación informal de la Administración

    by Erika Castro ...
    La práctica jurídico-administrativa pone de relieve la presencia habitual de formas de actuación administrativa basadas en la deliberación y concertación con grupos ciudadanos, cuyo propósito es alcanzar objetivos de interés público. A pesar de su importante desarrollo, estas actuaciones han tenido un escaso estudio por la doctrina colombiana debido a la ausencia de encaje con el sistema de actos ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Edited by William Cronon ...
    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 the sale of nature ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Nature Unbound

    Bureaucracy vs. the Environment

    What if what we think we know about ecology and environmental policy is just wrong? What if environmental laws often make things worse? What if the very idea of nature has been hijacked by politics? What if wilderness is something we create in our minds, as opposed to being an actual description of nature? Developing answers to these questions and developing implications of those answers are our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waste

    One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

    The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerableA Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur “genius,” grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Climate Casino

    Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

    Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • After Nature

    A Politics for the Anthropocene

    An Artforum Best Book of the YearA Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the YearNature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • War of the Whales

    A True Story

    Winner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative…. He has written a book that is instructive and passionate and deserving a wide audience” (PEN Award Citation).Six years in the making, War of the Whales is the “gripping detective tale” (Publishers Weekly) of a crusading attorney, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Nuclear Law

    The Global Debate

    This open access book traces the journey of nuclear law: its origins, how it has developed, where it is now, and where it is headed. As a discipline, this highly specialized body of law makes it possible for us to benefit from the life-saving applications of nuclear science and technology, including diagnosing cancer as well as avoiding and mitigating the effects of climate change. This book seeks ... Read more

    Free

  • Stand Up That Mountain

    The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail

    In the tradition of A Civil Ac tion—the true story of a North Carolina outdoorsman who teams up with his Appalachian “mountain people” neighbors to save treasured land from being destroyedLiving alone in his wooded mountain retreat, Jay Leutze gets a call from a whip-smart fourteen-year-old, Ashley Cook, and her aunt, Ollie Cox, who say a mining company is intent on tearing down Belview Mountain, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Coyote Warrior

    One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation

    A Civil Action meets Indian country, as one man takes on the federal government and the largest boondoggle in U.S. history -- and wins. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Impuestos ambientales: La imposición fiscal a los riesgos permitidos

    Series series Biblioteca Jurídica Porrúa
    El desarrollo del ser humano a costa de los recursos naturales finitos genera que la problemática del deterioro al planeta siga siendo tema durante los siguientes años, continuando con propuestas sobre cómo incentivar la conservación de tales recursos o en su caso inhibir la sobreexplotación de los mismos.En ese escenario, establecer tributos ambientales es uno de los aspectos considerados para ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Poisoned

    How a Crime-Busting Prosecutor Turned His Medical Mystery into a Crusade for Environmental Victims

    by Alan Bell ...
    After years of prosecuting hard-core criminals, rising legal star Alan Bell took a private sector job in South Florida’s newest skyscraper. Suddenly, he suffered such bizarre medical symptoms, doctors suspected he’d been poisoned by the Mafia. Bell’s rapidly declining health forced him to flee his glamorous Miami life to a sterile “bubble” in the remote Arizona desert.As his career and marriage ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • America's Public Lands

    From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond

    How it is that the United States—the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world—has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as public lands? Now in a fully revised and updated edition covering the first years of the Trump administration, Randall Wilson considers this intriguing question, tracing the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Towards the Ethics of a Green Future

    The Theory and Practice of Human Rights for Future People

    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    What are our obligations towards future generations who stand to be harmed by the impact of today’s environmental crises? This book explores ecological sustainability as a human rights issue and examines what our long-term responsibilities might be.This interdisciplinary collection of chapters provides a basis for understanding the debates on the provision of sustainability for future generations ... Read more

    Free

  • Law of the Jungle

    The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win

    The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Towards Principled Oceans Governance

    Australian and Canadian Approaches and Challenges

    Series series Routledge Advances in Maritime Research
    Australia and Canada have been at the forefront of efforts to operationalize integrated oceans and coastal management. Throughout the 1990s both countries devoted considerable effort to developing strategies to give effect to international ocean management obligations.This key book focuses on principles of marine environmental conservation and management, maritime regulation and enforcement, and ... Read more

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  • The Rights of Nature

    A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World

    by David R. Boyd ...
    Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable LiteratureA growing body of law around the world supports the idea that humans are not the only species with rights; and if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities.“Expertly written case studies in which legalese is accessibly distilled … empowering reminders that the seemingly inevitable slide toward planetary destruction can be halted.” — ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Creative (Climate) Communications

    Productive Pathways for Science, Policy and Society

    Conversations about climate change at the science-policy interface and in our lives have been stuck for some time. This handbook integrates lessons from the social sciences and humanities to more effectively make connections through issues, people, and things that everyday citizens care about. Readers will come away with an enhanced understanding that there is no 'silver bullet' to communications ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Return to Lilacwell

    A cosy and uplifting countryside romance

    by Sasha Morgan ...
    Series Book 2 - Lilacwell Village
    Will Lilacwell works its magic once more?Times are changing in Lilacwell. Not only have Jasper and Adira settled into The Laurels manor, newly engaged and firmly casting off the shackles of their respective city lives, but Adira’s friend and ex-colleague, Rory, is now also looking to leave London for the quiet beauty of the Forest of Bowland.Sparks flew when he and Lilacwell’s innkeeper, Cassie, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century

    Nuclear power is not an option for the future but an absolute necessity. Global threats of climate change and lethal air pollution, killing millions each year, make it clear that nuclear and renewable energy must work together, as non-carbon sources of energy. Fortunately, a new era of growth in this energy source is underway in developing nations, though not yet in the West. Seeing the Light is ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Hidden War

    How Special Operations Game Wardens Are Reclaiming America's Wildlands From The Drug Cartels

    This isn’t a book about a conflict in a faraway country; it's a wake-up call.While debates about border security continue to rage, and with stories about legal and illegal marijuana in the news daily, Hidden War forces an astonishing dose of reality into the public consciousness.California game warden Lt. John Nores, Jr., now retired, has been at the forefront of an under-reported battle against ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Debating Climate Ethics

    Series series Debating Ethics
    In this volume, Stephen M. Gardiner and David A. Weisbach present arguments for and against the relevance of ethics to global climate policy. Gardiner argues that climate change is fundamentally an ethical issue, since it is an early instance of a distinctive challenge to ethical action (the perfect moral storm), and ethical concerns (such as with justice, rights, political legitimacy, community ... Read more

    $35.99 USD