Books, Law, Environmental & Natural Resources Law

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John S. Lowe
Oil and Gas Law in a Nutshell
by West Group Publishing (Paperback)

Reliable source on oil and gas law. This authoritative coverage focuses on the legal rules that govern the development of privately owned mineral rights, which often also apply to governmentally owned resources. Text covers topics such as the nature, protection, and conveying of oil and gas rights, leasing, and taxation.

Gaylord A. Jentz, Roger Leroy Miller, Frank B. Cross
West's Business Law, Alternate Edition
by Thomson South-Western (Hardcover)

Known for its comprehensive, authoritative coverage, this text offers instructors great flexibility in choosing which areas of the law to emphasize. Cases are summarized by the authors to facilitate student comprehension.

Emanuel Law Outlines: Environmental Law (Emanuel Law Outlines)
by Aspen Publishers, Inc. (Paperback)

The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steven Emanuel, these course outlines have been relied on by generations of law students. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alpha-list of cases, and a cross reference table of cases for all of the leading casebooks.

Steven Ferrey
Environmental Law Examples & Explanations
by Aspen Publishers, Inc. (Paperback)

Roger W. Findley, Daniel A. Farber
Environmental Law in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
by Thomson West (Paperback)

This Nutshell summarizes the complex field of environmental law. Findley and Farber s Environmental Law in a Nutshell provides a foundation for understanding environmental law. Expert text includes coverage of various areas, from acid rain and atomic energy, to waste disposal and wetlands. Touches upon the many statutory and common-law regulations shaping the world in which we live.

David H. Getches
Water Law in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
by West Publishing Company (Paperback)

Reliable source on water law contains updated court decisions from hundreds of case and statutory changes in several states. There is an added discussion on surface use of waters in light of the increased importance of public recreational water uses. Throughout the edition, where appropriate, analysis expands on the subjects of instream flow protection, water quality, and public-interest concerns in water use and water collection.

Government Institutes
Environmental Law Handbook
by Government Institutes (Hardcover)

This Nineteenth Edition references all regulatory changes made in the last two years and provides legal insight into understanding the requirements of the environmental laws. It examines all of the issues and changes that have arisen since the publication of the Eighteenth Edition.

William R. Blackburn
The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility
by Environmental Law Institute (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-02-13)

The pursuit of sustainability can be complex, challenging, and ultimately beneficial when practiced by corporate, academic, government and non-profit organizations. The Sustainability Handbook provides a blueprint on how organizations of all sizes can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. The handbook offers a wide variety of practical approaches and tools, including a model sustainability policy for organizations, summaries and tips on selecting sustainability codes, an extensive collection of sample metrics, and much more.

Thomas O. McGarity, Wendy E. Wagner
Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
by Harvard University Press (Hardcover)

What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regulators and legislators use to protect the public from dangerous products? As this disturbing book shows, ideological or economic attacks on research are part of an extensive pattern of abuse. Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy Wagner reveal the range of sophisticated legal and financial tactics political and corporate advocates use to discredit or suppress research on potential human health hazards. Scientists can find their research blocked, or find themselves threatened with financial ruin. Corporations, plaintiff attorneys, think tanks, even government agencies have been caught suppressing or distorting research on the safety of chemical products. With alarming stories drawn from the public record, McGarity and Wagner describe how advocates attempt to bend science or “spin” findings. They reveal an immense range of tools ...

James Salzman; Barton H. Thompson; Jr.
Environmental Law and Policy, (Concepts & Insights Series) (Concepts and Insights Series)
by Foundation Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-12-11)

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, problems of scale, public choice theory, etc. It then presents three dominant perspectives in the field that drive policy development environmental rights, utilitarianism, and environmental justice. Chapter Three fills in the remaining legal background for understanding environmental protection, reviewing the theory of instrument choice, the basics of administrative law, core concepts in constitutional law (e.g., takings, the commerce clause), and the doctrines associated with how citizen groups shape environmental law such as standing.The second part of the book examines the substance of ...

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