Environmental Law in Context: Cases and Materials (American Casebook)

Craig, Robin Kundis

West Group Publishing

Environmental Law in Context: Cases and Materials

Thomson/West

The time has come for us to collectively reexamine—and ultimately move past—the concept of sustainability in environmental and natural resources law and management. The continued invocation of sustainability in policy discussions ignores the emerging reality of the Anthropocene, which is creating a world characterized by extreme complexity, radical uncertainty, and unprecedented change. From a legal and policy perspective, we must face the impossibility of even defining—let alone pursuing—a goal of “sustainability” in such a world. Melinda Harm Benson and Robin Kundis Craig propose resilience as a more realistic and workable communitarian approach to environmental governance. American environmental and natural resources laws date to the early 1970s, when the steady-state “Balance of Nature” model was in vogue—a model that ecologists have long since rejected, even before adding the complication of climate change. In the Anthropocene, a new era in which humans are the key agent of change on the planet, these laws (and American culture more generally) need to embrace new narratives of complex ecosystems and humans� role as part of them—narratives exemplified by cultural tricksters and resilience theory. Updating Aldo Leopold’s vision of nature and humanity as a single community for the Anthropocene, Benson and Craig argue that the narrative of resilience integrates humans back into the complex social and ecological system known as Earth. As such, it empowers humans to act for a better future through law and policy despite the very real challenges of climate change Melinda Harm Benson is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of New Mexico.

The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene (Environment and Society)

Benson, Melinda Harm

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

University Press of Kansas

The Clean Water Act and the Constitution: is a comprehensive, clearly organized, and insightful exploration of the Clean Water Act’s intended and actual experience with federalism concerns. After introducing the subject and describing its pivotal role, Professor Craig examines the Act’s "cooperative federalism;" interstate water quality and the federal common law; environmental regulation and the Tenth Amendment; federal supremacy and "overfiling;" and federal sovereign immunity and federal facilities. The book includes an in-depth analysis of the Commerce Clause and issues regarding its applicability to the regulation of navigable and non-navigable waters.

The Clean Water Act and the Constitution: Legal Structure and the Public's Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment

Environmental Law Institute

Modern Water Law provides a comprehensive text to study the range of legal issues and doctrines that affect water resources. This is a national book that uses many recent cases, bringing a fresh perspective to the field. The authors begin with private water use rights, including common-law doctrines for riparian reasonable use and prior appropriation, as well as groundwater rights and the statutory schemes for administering water use rights. The book explores the range of public rights in water, including navigation, the public trust doctrine, federal reserved rights, and interstate water management. The book also introduces modern challenges and environmental protection goals, focusing on the energy-water nexus, water pollution, and endangered species conflicts. The final chapters combine these concepts in the context of complex watershed restoration challenges and water rights takings litigation.

Modern Water Law (University Casebook Series)

Adler, Robert W.

Hall, Noah D.

Foundation Press

This compilation of federal legislation affecting the environment is designed for use in law school courses.

Selected Environmental Law Statutes, 2018-2019 Educational Edition (Selected Statutes)

West Academic Publishing

Receive complimentary lifetime digital access to the eBook with new print purchase. This compilation of federal legislation affecting the environment is designed for use in law school courses.

Selected Environmental Law Statutes, 2019-2020 Educational Edition (Selected Statutes)

Comparative Ocean Governance: Place-Based Protections in an Era of Climate Change (New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series)

Comparative Ocean Governance examines the world's attempts to improve ocean governance through place-based management - marine protected areas, ocean zoning, marine spatial planning - and evaluates this growing trend in light of the advent of climate change and its impacts on the seas.This monograph opens with an explanation of the economics of the oceans and their value to the global environment and the earth's population, the long-term stressors that have impacted oceans, and the new threats to ocean sustainability that climate change poses. It then examines the international framework for ocean management and coastal nations' increasing adoption of place-based governance regimes. The final section explores how these place-based management regimes intersect with climate change adaptation efforts, either accidentally or intentionally. It then offers suggestions for making place-based marine management even more flexible and responsive for the future.Environmental law scholars, legislators and policymakers, marine scientists, and all those concerned for the welfare of the world s oceans will find this book of great value.Contents: Introduction Part I: The Ocean and the Threats to it 1. The Value of the Oceans 2. Non-Climate Threats to Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity 3. Climate Change and the Oceans Part II: Ocean Governance, International Law, and Place-based Protections for Marine Ecosystems 4. The International Legal Framework of Ocean Governance 5. Place-based Marine Governance: An Overview Part III: Adapting Place-based Marine Governance to Climate Change 6. 'Accidental' Adaptation: Climate Change and Existing Place-based Marine Management 7. Purposeful Climate Change Adaptation in Place-based Governance Systems 8. Making Marine Spatial Planning Climate Change Dynamic Conclusion Index

Edward Elgar Publishing

Comparative Ocean Governance examines the world's attempts to improve ocean governance through place-based management - marine protected areas, ocean zoning, marine spatial planning - and evaluates this growing trend in light of the advent of climate change and its impacts on the seas. This monograph opens with an explanation of the economics of the oceans and their value to the global environment and the earth's population, the long-term stressors that have impacted oceans, and the new threats to ocean sustainability that climate change poses. It then examines the international framework for ocean management and coastal nations' increasing adoption of place-based governance regimes. The final section explores how these place-based management regimes intersect with climate change adaptation efforts, either accidentally or intentionally. It then offers suggestions for making place-based marine management even more flexible and responsive for the future. 
Environmental law scholars, legislators and policy makers, marine scientists, and all those concerned for the welfare of the world's oceans will find this book of great value.

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Environmental Law in Context: Cases and Materials (American Casebook)

Environmental Law in Context: Cases and Materials

The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene (Environment and Society)

The Clean Water Act and the Constitution: Legal Structure and the Public's Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment

Modern Water Law (University Casebook Series)

Selected Environmental Law Statutes, 2018-2019 Educational Edition (Selected Statutes)

Selected Environmental Law Statutes, 2019-2020 Educational Edition (Selected Statutes)

Comparative Ocean Governance: Place-Based Protections in an Era of Climate Change (New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series)

Comparative Ocean Governance: Place-Based Protections in an Era of Climate Change (New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series)