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  • Riverflow

    The Right to Keep Water Instream

    There are many people and places connected to rivers: fishermen whose livelihood depends on river ecosystems, farms that need irrigation, indigenous groups whose cultures rely on fish and flowing waters, cities whose electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, and citizens who seek wild nature. For all of these people, instream flow is vitally important to where and how they live and work. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Snail Darter and the Dam

    How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River

    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 Court case—known officially as Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill—tells the hidden story behind ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Energy Justice and Energy Law

    Energy justice has emerged over the last decade as a matter of vital concern in energy law, which can be seen in the attention directed to energy poverty, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. There are energy justice concerns in areas of law as diverse as human rights, consumer protection, international law and trade, and in many forms of regional and national energy law and ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Energy and Resources Financing

    A Practical Handbook

    Edited by Huw Thomas, Antony Skinner ...
    Energy and Natural Resources Financing: A Practical Handbook covers financing across the energy and natural resources spectrum, from upstream oil and gas, pipelines and liquefied natural gas through to refineries, and from conventional power and renewable energy to nuclear power and mining. It discusses the most important financing techniques, including reserve-based lending, project finance and ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Mining Law and Governance in Africa

    Transformation and Innovation for a Sustainable Mining Sector

    Edited by Victoria R. Nalule ...
    This book explores the various issues that characterise the African mining sector, drawing examples from different African countries and regional organisations. Although there is a massive literature on the subject, some issues have been neglected, including the crucial role of digitalisation and technological advancement in resolving the environmental and social challenges faced in Artisanal and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Solar Power Generation Problems, Solutions, and Monitoring

    Solar Power Generation Problems, Solutions, and Monitoring is a valuable resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students interested in solar power system design. Written to serve as a pragmatic resource for solar photovoltaic power systems financing, it outlines real-life, straightforward design methodology. Using numerous examples, illustrations and an easy to follow design ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South

    Infrastructure and Development in Emerging Economies

    Series series Law And Global Governance
    The 1990s and 2000s have witnessed a spurt of energetic institution-building in the developing world, as regulatory agencies emerge to take over the role of the executive in key sectors. This rise of the regulatory state of the south is barely noticed both by scholars of regulation and of development, let alone adequately documented and theorized. Yet the consequences for the role of the state and ... Read more

    $152.99 USD $116.99 USD

  • Natural Environments

    Studies in Theoretical & Applied Analysis

    Series series RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    This study represents the first scholarly attempt to consider the difficult allocation problems associated with management of natural resources and proposed changes in the natural environment. Originally published in 1973 ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Claims against Iraqi Oil and Gas

    Legal Considerations and Lessons Learned

    This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the legal issues surrounding international debt recovery on claims against Iraqi oil and gas. In addition to presenting a snapshot view of Iraq's outstanding debt obligations and an analysis of the significance of the theory of odious debt in the context of the Iraqi situation, the list of legal issues examined includes relevant ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Governance, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

    Series series Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management
    When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order. Meeting these needs while sustaining peace requires more than simply having governmental structures in place; it requires good governance.Natural resources are essential to sustaining people and peace in post-conflict ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets

    Edited by Damilola S. Olawuyi ...
    Series series Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development
    Local Content and Sustainable Development in Global Energy Markets analyses the topical and contentious issue of the critical intersections between local content requirements (LCRs) and the implementation of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, South America, Australasia and the Middle East While LCRs generally aim ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law

    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Law
    This book critically explores the legal tools, concepts, principles and instruments, as well as cross-cutting issues, that comprise the field of international environmental law. Commencing with foundational elements, progressing on to discrete sub-fields, then exploring regional cooperative approaches, cross-cutting issues and finally emerging challenges for international environmental law, it ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Energy Law in Taiwan

    Series series 2
    Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in Taiwan. The book describes the administrative organization, regulatory framework, and relevant case law pertaining to the development, application, and use of such forms of energy as electricity, gas, ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • The Global Energy Transition

    Law, Policy and Economics for Energy in the 21st Century

    Series series Global Energy Law and Policy
    Global energy is on the cusp of change, and it has become almost a truism that energy is in transition. But what does this notion mean exactly? This book explores the working hypothesis that, characteristically, the energy system requires a strategy of the international community of states to deliver sustainable energy to which all have access. This strategy is for establishing rules-based ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Environmental Law and Governance in the Pacific

    Climate Change, Biodiversity and Communities

    This volume examines environmental law and governance in the Pacific, focusing on the emerging challenges this region faces. The Pacific is home to some of the world’s most astonishing biological and cultural diversity. At the same time, Pacific Island nations are economically and technically under-resourced in the face of tremendous environmental challenges. Destructive weather events, ocean ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • COMENTÁRIOS À LEI DOS RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS

    Lei n. 12.305, de 2 de agosto de 2010 (e seu regulamento)

    O livro trata da Lei da Política Nacional de ResíduosSólidos (Lei nº 12.305, de 2 de agosto de 2010),apresentando um panorama geral da gestão dos resíduossólidos no país, uma análise dos diversos dispositivosconstantes na recente lei e em seu regulamento.Estão inclusos, também, comentários sobre o processode formulação desse importante diploma legal.Dessa forma, o livro presta relevante serviço ao ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature

    Edited by Jose Bellido, Brad Sherman ...
    Intellectual property law has been interacting with nature for over two centuries. Despite this long history, this relationship has largely been ignored. Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature fills this gap by bringing together scholars from different disciplines to examine the important role that nature plays in intellectual property law. Based on the idea that many contemporary issues ... Read more

    $130.99 USD

  • Jahrbuch Wirtschaftsrecht Schweiz – EU 2024

    Überblick und Kommentar 2023/24

    Der vorliegende 19. Band der Jahrbuchreihe „Wirtschaftsrecht Schweiz – EU“ dokumentiert die aktuellen Entwicklungen in zentralen Bereichen des EU-Wirtschaftsrechts und deren Bedeutung für die Schweiz. Berücksichtigt werden diverse wirtschaftsrelevante Rechtsgebiete, u.a. Kapitalmarktrecht, Immaterialgüterrecht, Arbeitsrecht, Steuerrecht und Wettbewerbsrecht. Das Jahrbuch richtet sich an ... Read more

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  • Les cyclones et leur origine

    Les cyclones ou tempêtes tournantes sont l’un des phénomènes les plus importants et les plus curieux de l’atmosphère. Ces impressionnants phénomènes, dont la route est marquée par tant de désastres, sont désignés par différents noms : ouragans, dans l’océan Indien ou l’Atlantique ; typhons dans la mer de Chine ; simoun, dans le désert ; tornades, sur la côte occidentale d’Afrique. Ces derniers ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Application of Contracts in Developing Offshore Oil and Gas Projects

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key aspects and contracts involved in the process of developing oil and gas projects, with an emphasis on offshore developments.Project development in oil and gas carries with it numerous unique risks and challenges. By identifying and managing risk through the various contract stages, each stage of the project is seen in perspective and therefore ... Read more

    $220.99 USD

  • Petroleum Contracts

    English Law & Practice

    by Peter Roberts ...
    In response to the primacy of English law as the lingua franca governing petroleum transactions, and the increased global demand for new sources of oil and gas, this fully updated new edition analyses the application of English law to contracts for project investment, financing, and development. The book provides practitioners and other parties with essential operational detail, as well as ... Read more

    $404.99 USD

  • Sustainability Unpacked

    Food, Energy and Water for Resilient Environments and Societies

    Food, water and energy form some of the basic elements of sustainability considerations. This ground-breaking book examines and decodes these elements, exploring how a range of countries make decisions regarding their energy and bio-resource consumption and procurement. The authors consider how these choices impact not only the societies and environments of those countries, but the world in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Waterlogged Wealth

    Why waste the world's wet places?

    by Edward Maltby ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    Don't drain the swamp! Man's traditional response to swamps, marshes and bogs has been to drain them. But wetlands are not wastelands. Coastal marshes are among the world's most productive ecosystems. They make many commercial fisheries possible and protect coasts from floods and storm surges. Wetlands are pollution filters, water reservoirs. They are among the last wild places on earth, offering ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Arbitration of International Mining Disputes

    Law and Practice

    Series series Oxford International Arbitration Series
    International mining disputes represent a significant and growing area of disputes over natural resources, yet the unique risks inherent in the mining industry set them apart, both in the nature of the disputes and the approach taken to resolve them. International arbitration has emerged as the mechanism of choice for the resolution of such disputes. This has given rise to a wealth of arbitral ... Read more

    $251.99 USD