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  • Exploring the Concept of Water Tenure

    The purpose of this paper is examine the notion of tenure in connection with water resources and to explore whether the concept of water tenure has the potential to make a useful contribution towards resolving the world’s water resources challenges. It seeks to provide answers to the following questions: (a) What is water tenure? (b) Does water tenure really exist or is water simply too different ... Read more

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  • Fire Country

    How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia

    Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of cultural burning practices, and improved 'reading' of country, could help to restore our land.From a young age, Victor has had a passion for traditional cultural and ecological knowledge. This was ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • This Cider Still Tastes Funny!

    Further Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine

    by John Ford Sr. ...
    John Ford Sr. returns to the outdoors of Maine with "This Cider Still Tastes Funny! Further Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine," his follow-up to the highly popular and critically acclaimed "Suddenly, the Cider Didn't Taste So Good." Ford is a retired Maine game warden, sheriff and gifted storyteller who carved out a reputation as a man of the law, but one who wasn't a by-the-book enforcer. He ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oil in the Environment

    Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    Edited by John A. Wiens ...
    What light does nearly twenty-five years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the results help in assessing future spills? How can ecological risks be assessed and quantified? In this, the first book on the effects of Exxon Valdez in fifteen years, scientists directly involved in studying the spill provide a comprehensive perspective on ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Social Networks and Natural Resource Management

    Uncovering the Social Fabric of Environmental Governance

    Edited by Örjan Bodin, Christina Prell ...
    Social Network Analysis (SNA), a quantitative approach to the study of social relations, has recently emerged as a key tool for understanding the governance of natural resources. Bringing together contributions from a range of researchers in the field, this is the first book to fully explore the potential applications of SNA in the context of natural resource management. Topics covered include the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • A Year in the Woods

    The Diary of a Forest Ranger

    Colin Elford's A Year in the Woods is an enthralling journey into the heart of the English countryside - with a preamble by Craig Taylor.Colin Elford spends his days alone - alone but for the deer, the squirrels, the rabbits, the birds, and the many other creatures inhabiting the woods.From the crisp cold of January, through the promise of spring and the heat of summer, and then into damp autumn ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Public Water Policies

    The Ultimate Weapons of Social Control

    Although water is nature's most important molecule; its regulation and management are among the most challenging public policy issues for any society. Water is the common denominator of all life on earth. Public water policies then become the fundamental foundations of community formation anywhere. Cities exist in their places based on the local access to adequate amounts of fresh water. Without ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Introduction to EU Energy Law

    by Kim Talus ...
    Offering an introduction to students on the most essential elements of EU energy law and policy, this volume will be the go-to text for those seeking knowledge of EU energy regulation and its objectives, as well as an overview of energy law. Specific topics will cover the content of sector-specific energy regulation, the application and impact of general EU law on energy markets, third party ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Human Right to a Healthy Environment

    Edited by John H. Knox, Ramin Pejan ...
    The absence of a globally recognized right to a healthy environment has not prevented the development of human rights norms relating to the environment. Indeed, one of the most noteworthy aspects of human rights law over the last twenty years is that UN treaty bodies, regional tribunals, special rapporteurs, and other human rights mechanisms have applied human rights law to environmental issues ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • US Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure

    US Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure is an analytic history of American energy policy. For the past forty years, the US government has tried to develop comprehensive policies on energy, yet these efforts have failed repeatedly. These failures have not resulted from a lack of will or funds but rather from an inability to differentiate between what could be undertaken and what could actually ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Transforming US Energy Innovation

    One of the greatest challenges facing human civilization is the provision of secure, affordable energy without causing catastrophic environmental damage. As the world's largest economy, and as a world leader in energy technologies, the United States is a particularly important case. In the light of increased competition from other countries (particularly China), growing concerns about the local ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Cry Wolf

    Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator

    “Required reading for anyone invested in our shared future with these powerful and complex creatures.” —John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was killed in a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Extremes

    Series Book 31 - Darwin College Lectures
    Humanity is confronted by and attracted to extremes. Extreme events shape our thinking, feeling, and actions; they echo in our politics, media, literature, and science. We often associate extremes with crises, disasters, and risks to be averted, yet extremes also have the potential to lead us towards new horizons. Featuring essays by leading intellectuals and public figures arising from the 2017 ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success

    Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress

    by Mark Jaccard ...
    Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know what changes we all can and should make to help. This book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows us how to recognize the absolutely essential actions (decarbonizing electricity and transport) and policies (regulations that phase out coal plants and gasoline vehicles, carbon tariffs). Rather ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Western Water Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court

    Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriation--"first in time is first in right"--used to apportion water resources in the western United States, this book focuses on the important case of Wyoming v. Colorado (1922). U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, a former Chief Justice of Wyoming, ruled in that state's favor, finding that prior ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Client Earth

    Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope.Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activists? Corporations? Engineers? Scientists? Whoever, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Governing Climate Change

    Polycentricity in Action?

    Climate change governance is in a state of enormous flux. New and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the international climate regime centred on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They appear to be emerging spontaneously from the bottom up, producing a more dispersed pattern of governing, which Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom famously described as ... Read more

    $123.99 USD

  • The 2003 UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention

    A Commentary

    Edited by Janet Blake, Lucas Lixinski ...
    Series series Oxford Commentaries on International Cultural Heritage Law
    This book critically analyses the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO's latest and ground-breaking treaty in the area of cultural heritage protection. Intangible cultural heritage is broadly understood as the social processes that inform our living cultures, and our social cohesion and identity as communities and peoples. On the basis of this conception ... Read more

    $211.99 USD

  • Economics for a Fragile Planet

    Rethinking Markets, Institutions and Governance

    In a world of growing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, ensuring a safe Anthropocene for humankind is essential. Managing an increasingly "fragile" planet requires new thinking on markets, institutions and governance built on five principles: ending the underpricing of nature, fostering collective action, accepting absolute limits, attaining sustainability, and promoting inclusivity. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Energy Law in Argentina

    by Pablo Ferrara ...
    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 Argentina. 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

    $93.99 USD

  • Energy Law in India

    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 India. 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

  • Maximising Economic Recovery

    A New Approach to Regulating the UK's Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

    The regulatory regime encapsulated in the term ‘maximising economic recovery’ or MER, now administered by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), was introduced in 2015. It emerged from a government-commissioned report by Sir Ian Wood, published in 2014, which recommended the introduction of a new tripartite strategy for MER from the UKCS involving HM Treasury, industry and a new regulator at ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

  • Euratom at the Crossroads

    This book addresses the contentious debate surrounding the future of the European Atomic Energy Community Treaty (Euratom), one of the European Union’s founding treaties. Arguing that it has remained at a ‘crossroads’ since its adoption in 1957, Anna Södersten explores the issue of whether the treaty should be kept separate from the EU, or be brought within its framework. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Encyclopaedia of Midstream and Downstream Oil and Gas

    Second Edition

    The petroleum industry is highly specialised. Over the centuries, it has developed many standard petroleum arrangements and contracts that are not familiar to all across the industry - and even less to the outside world. Each has its own detailed terms and provisions. This new edition uniquely combines an encyclopaedia with commentary on both midstream and downstream activities. The topics it ... Read more

    $283.99 USD