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“barry barton”

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  • Sharing the Costs and Benefits of Energy and Resource Activity

    Legal Change and Impact on Communities

    Edited by Barry Barton, Lee Godden, Alastair Lucas, Lila Barrera-Hernández, Anita Rønne ...
    A new phase is emerging in the relationship between energy and resource activities and the communities that are affected by them. Any energy or resource project - a mine, a wind farm, a dam for hydroelectricity, or a shale gas development - will involve a mix of impacts and benefits for communities. For many years, the law has mediated impacts on communities and provided for the distribution of ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

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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

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  • 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

    by Paul M. Barrett ...
    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

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law

    U.S. and International Perspectives

    Edited by Randall S. Abate ...
    Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law. The protection of oceans has received increased attention in the past decade because of sea-level rise, ocean acidification, the global overfishing crisis, widespread depletion of marine biodiversity such as marine mammals and coral reefs, and marine pollution. ... Read more

    $134.39 CAD

  • The Habitats Directive

    A Developer's Obstacle Course?

    Edited by Gregory Jones KC ...
    Biodiversity within the European Union is under threat. Almost a quarter of Europe's vascular plant species and 155 species of its native mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians are threatened with extinction. The Habitats Directive imposes a strict regime for environmental protection. But with the euro zone economy falling from 'stagnation' to 'contraction' in the second quarter of 2012 and the ... Read more

    $199.79 CAD

  • Practical Tools for Plant and Food Biosecurity

    Results from a European Network of Excellence

    Edited by Maria Lodovica Gullino, James P. Stack, Jacqueline Fletcher, John D. Mumford ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is based on EU-funded project PLANTFOODSEC, covering intentional and unintentional threats to plant biosecurity and to food safety areas.Biosecurity is a strategic and integrated approach for analysing and managing relevant risks to human, animal and plant life and health, and associated risks to the environment. Interest in biosecurity has risen considerably over the last decade in ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • The 21st Century — Turning Point for the Northern Sea Route?

    Proceedings of the Northern Sea Route User Conference, Oslo, 18–20 November 1999

    Edited by C.L. Ragner ...
    by Claes Lykke Ragner, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute Marking the end of the International Northern Sea Route Programme (INSROP), the Northern Sea Route User Conference was organized in Oslo on 18-20 November 1999. The purpose of the Conference was two-fold. First, it was the intention of the organizers to present to the potential users of the Northern Sea Route - i. e. the international shipping ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Energy Networks and the Law

    Innovative Solutions in Changing Markets

    Edited by Martha M. Roggenkamp, Donald N. Zillman, Lila Barrera-Hernández, Iñigo del Guayo ...
    Networks like cables and pipelines are essential for a functioning energy market. This book provides a clear and insightful overview of the legal challenges this poses in the modern world. The construction and use of these networks depends on developments in technology, policies, and legal regulation. Recently, the energy sector has been faced with considerable challenges and changes. Energy ... Read more

    $124.99 CAD

  • Soil Security for Ecosystem Management

    Mediterranean Soil Ecosystems 1

    Edited by Selim Kapur, Sabit Erşahin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The term "Soil Security" is used in the context of maintaining the quality and quantity of soil needed in order to ensure continuous supplies of food and fresh water for our society. Topics in this unique book on the management of soil sustainability in the Mediterranean region include: soil information, land degradation, land desertification, pedoenvironments, and the carbon cycle and ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Policing Wildlife

    Perspectives on the Enforcement of Wildlife Legislation

    by A. Nurse ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Policing Wildlife examines both the extent and enforcement of wildlife law, one of the fastest growing areas of crime globally. The book considers how enforcement regimes need to adapt to contemporary wildlife crime threats, particularly those posed by terrorism and organised crime. ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Crime, Violence, and Global Warming

    by John Crank, Linda Jacoby ...
    Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity. Conflict over natural resources can escalate to state and non-state actors, resulting in wars, asymmetrical warfare, and terrorism. Crank and Jacoby apply criminological theory to each aspect of this complicated web, helping readers to evaluate conflicting claims about global warming ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Legal Aspects of EU Energy Regulation

    Edited by Peter Cameron, Raphael Heffron ...
    This book provides comprehensive coverage of EU energy law in practice, evaluating the effectiveness of the Third Energy Package, the rise and importance of national and EU renewable energy measures in electricity markets, interconnection and infrastructure aspects of the electricity and gas markets. The national reports take into account the legal and institutional diversity among the Member ... Read more

    $208.99 CAD