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Land Use eBooks

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  • 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

  • The King of Oil

    The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

    by Daniel Ammann ...
    Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market, which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, Fidel Castro's Cuba, war-ravaged Angola, and apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Florida Construction Defect Litigation 2019

    by Gary Brown ...
    Construction defect claims cover a wide spectrum of issues and can involve multiple parties responsible for both construction and design errors.Florida Construction Defect Litigation covers a variety of topics and issues, including the legal frame-work within which construction defect claims are addressed, typical claims and defenses, contractual considerations, standards of care for contractors ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • Cities in the Wilderness

    A New Vision of Land Use in America

    by Bruce Babbitt ...
    In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in.We've all experienced America's changing natural landscape as the integrity of our forests, seacoasts, and river valleys succumbs to strip malls, new roads, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Legal Guide on Land Consolidation: Based on Regulatory Practices in Europe

    Land consolidation is a highly effective land management instrument that allows for the improvement of the structure of agricultural holdings and farms in a country, which increases their economic and social efficiency and brings benefits both to right holders as well as to society in general. Since land consolidation gives mobility to land ownership and other land rights, it may also facilitate ... Read more

    Free

  • The National Wildlife Refuges

    Coordinating A Conservation System Through Law

    The National Wildlife Refuges provides a comprehensive examination of the laws and policies governing management of the national wildlife refuges, offering for the first time a practical description and analysis of the management regime outlined in the 1997 National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act. The 1997 act is the first new statute governing a system of federal public lands enacted ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Slick Water

    Fracking and One Insider's Stand against the World's Most Powerful Industry

    The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing - fracking” - as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies. Yet the controversial technology, which blasts massive volumes of fluids, sand, and chemicals into rock and coal formations, has sparked huge public protests. Slick Water tells the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agricultural and Agribusiness Law

    An Introduction for Non-Lawyers

    This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law. The text will help students of land-based industries with little or no legal background to appreciate and identify issues that may require referral or consultation with legal counsel. This new edition is fully revised and updated, particularly addressing developments ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law

    by Emily Walsh ...
    A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law provides a strong foundation in commercial landlord and tenant, and housing law. The book is designed to provide a complete course text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students from surveying and real estate management backgrounds. This clear and accessible textbook aims to introduce the reader to the fundamentals of both residential and commercial ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Kip Brothers

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by Stanford L. Luce ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    Castaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain's murder. In this story, one of his last Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne interweaves an exciting exploration of the South Pacific with a tale of judicial error reminiscent of the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Discovering Indigenous Lands

    The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies

    This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • An Unsettled History

    Treaty Claims in New Zealand Today

    by Alan Ward ...
    An Unsettled History squarely confronts the issues arising from the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand today. Alan Ward writes lucidly about the Treaty claims process, about settlements made, and those to come.New Zealand’s short history unquestionably reveals a treaty made and then repeatedly breached. This is a compelling case for fair and reasonable settlement, and for the rigorous continuation ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Safeguarding Land Tenure Rights in the Context of Agricultural Investment

    This guide has been developed in response to concerns regarding large-scale land acquisitions and the need to increase investment in agriculture. The guide supports application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure for Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security at the national level by providing technical guidance on how to safeguard tenure ... Read more

    Free

  • Georgia Construction Law Handbook 2021

    Georgia Construction Law Handbook follows and unpacks new movement in this area of law as it develops.It is a guide to common construction law issues, such as regulatory matters and the collection of money using the mechanic’s lien law or the public works bond laws. A ready reference for attorneys and construction and design professionals, the Handbook analyzes construction law in Georgia, as set ... Read more

    $136.99 USD

  • Histoire du droit savant (13e–18e siècle)

    Doctrines et vulgarisation par incunables

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This third selection of articles by Robert Feenstra complements the two previously published, continuing his studies of doctrines of private law and of texts related to university teaching from the 13th century into the early modern period. In the section on private law, some pieces deal with the Middle Ages, while others focus on Hugo Grotius. Property is again an important topic, but this time ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Proving Up

    Domesticating Land in U.S. History

    by Lisi Krall ...
    On July 9, 1920, William Krall, a coal miner in Wyoming, was shot by his neighbor in a dispute over water as he attempted to "prove up" and gain title to his homestead. Attempting to understand her grandfather's passion and determination for making his own 160 acres of land in dry, sagebrush country led Professor Lisi Krall on a unique journey through the interconnections of economy, culture, and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Educating for Well-Being in Law

    Positive Professional Identities and Practice

    Bringing together the current international body of knowledge on key issues for educating for well-being in law, this book offers comparative perspectives across jurisdictions, and utilises a range of theoretical lenses (including socio-legal, psychological and ethical theories) in analysing well-being and legal education in law. The chapters include innovative and tested research methodologies ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Land Law

    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    A clear and concise introduction to the land law of England and Wales written in the Clarendon style: as a letter to a friend, with a minimum of footnotes and statutory material. It explains the origins of land law in the feudal system, its transformation by the legislation of 1925, and the modern regime in which registration is the key to the validity and enforceability of interests in land. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Colonial Kenya Observed

    British Rule, Mau Mau and the Wind of Change

    by S. H. Fazan ...
    The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in the 18th century, control of the area was an aspiration for every colonial nation in Europe - but it was not until 1895 that it was finally ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Origins of Ownership

    A Brief History of Land Ownership and Tenure from Earliest Time to the Modern Era

    by D. R. Denman ...
    Series Book 4 - Routledge Library Editions: Agribusiness and Land Use
    The English systems of land tenure have influenced land-holding far beyond Britain. Freehold, for example, a common-place in many places, has its origin in the feudal tenure of Anglo-Norman England. Much has been written about the origins of English land ownership but the contributions are hidden. This book, originally published in 1958 draws together legal, economic and social historical themes, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Investing in Nature

    Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business

    by William Ginn ...
    In 2004, U.S. consumers spent $5.2 billion purchasing bottled water while the government only invested 5 percent of that amount to purchase critical watersheds, parks, and wildlife refuges-systems vital to clean water and healthy environments. How can we reverse the direction of such powerful economic forces?A group of dedicated business-people-turned-environmental-entrepreneurs is pioneering a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Other People's Country

    Law, Water and Entitlement in Settler Colonial Sites

    Edited by Timothy Neale, Stephen Turner ...
    Other People’s Country thinks through the entangled objects of law – legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on – that ‘govern’ waters and that make bodies of water ‘lawful’ within settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical interventions of cosmopolitics and political ecology, each opening up new approaches to questions of politics and ‘the political’, the chapters in ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Trading Zones in Environmental Education

    Creating Transdisciplinary Dialogue

    Series Book 1 - [Re]thinking Environmental Education
    Environmental educators often adhere to a relatively narrow theoretical paradigm focusing on changing attitudes and knowledge, which are assumed to foster pro-environmental behaviors, which, in turn, leads to better environmental quality. This book takes a different approach to trying to understand how environmental education might influence people, their communities, and the environment. The ... Read more

    $165.99 USD

  • Taking English Planning Law Scholarship Seriously

    Edited by Maria Lee, Carolyn Abbot ...
    Planning is at the heart of the response to many of the significant challenges of our time, from the climate and environmental crises to social and economic inequalities. It is embedded in, as well as partially constituting, our democratic systems, so that the challenges of democratic decision-making in a complex society cannot be avoided when thinking about planning. Planning law raises some of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD