The Best Natural Resources Law Books 2024

1. Water Law in a Nutshell

Paperback. 5th Revised edition. Revised. Pages: 559. 559 p. Nutshell Series . Intended for college/higher education audience. The new edition adds dozens of recent decisions and key statutory changes. Virtually every principal case in the leading casebooks is cited or discussed, making it an excellent aid for students in any water law course. The revised book deals with changes in evolving areas like groundwater-surface water conflicts, public recreational uses, instream flow protection, federal water development, takings claims, and public interest concerns.

Water Law in a Nutshell (Paperback) by David H. Getches, Sandi B. Zellmer, Adell Amos

2. Pre-Owned Legal Control of Water Resources: Cases and Materials (Hardcover) 0314862285 9780314862280

This casebook provides a strong doctrinal base that spans the issues of both East and West, as well as groundwater and surface water. This edition retains its in-depth consideration of water institutions and federal-state and interstate water relations; and it contains sharpened coverage of property rights claims. It includes major new Supreme Court decisions, along with new key cases from several jurisdictions. It reflects the emergence of water law as a leading edge of legal adaptation to changing climate, considering impacts on water availability and the demands for its use.

Title: Legal Control of Water Resources: Cases and Materials ISBN10: 0314862285 EAN: 9780314862280 Genre: LAW / Natural Resources Author: Sax, Joseph L.; Abrams, Robert H.; Thompson, Barton H., Jr. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

3. Pre-Owned Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever (Hardcover) 1595589473 9781595589477

Water is a human right: "A rousing case for what will be one of the key environmental challenges of the twenty-first century." --Booklist The United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right--but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing environmental crisis. In this book, water activist Maude Barlow draws on her extensive experience to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she calls a "water-secure and water-just world." Not only does she reveal the powerful players even now impeding the recognition of the human right to water, she argues that water must not become a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market. Focusing on solutions, she includes stories of struggle and resistance from marginalized communities, as well as government policies that work for both people and the planet. At a time when climate change has moved to the top of the national agenda and the stage is being set for unprecedented drought, mass starvation, and the migration of millions of refugees in search of water, Blue Future is an urgent call to preserve our most valuable resource for generations to come. "In a book as clear as a pristine mountain stream, Maude Barlow lays out a practical and inspiring vision for how we can defend water--the source of all life--from the forces of death." --Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

Title: Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever Book Format: Hardcover ISBN10: 1595589473 EAN: 9781595589477 Author: Barlow, Maude CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

4. Pre-Owned Energy Law in a Nutshell (Paperback) 0314271864 9780314271860

This title addresses the component parts of the energy fuel cycle, as well as the market and government policies that oversee it. This Nutshell describe in detail the country's traditional energy policy and also discusses the current challenges that confront it. Chapters cover the individual natural resources used to produce energy and the book concludes with the development of a clean energy policy for the future.

Title: Energy Law in a Nutshell ISBN10: 0314271864 EAN: 9780314271860 Author: Tomain, Joseph P.; Cudahy, Richard D. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

5. Pre-Owned Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (Paperback) 1590318161 9781590318164

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you're not completely satisfied please get in touch & we'll be happy to help. ISBN-10: 1590318161, ISBN.-13: 9781590318164 Offers an examination of US law as it relates to global climate change. This book addresses the international and national frameworks of climate change law, including the Kyoto Protocol, state programs affected in the absence of a mandatory federal program, issues of disclosure and corporate governance, and the insurance industry.

Title: Global Climate Change and U.S. Law ISBN10: 1590318161 EAN: 9781590318164 Genre: LAW / Environmental Author: Michael Gerrard CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

6. Pre-Owned Water Law (Paperback) 0314737790 9780314737793

Riparian Rights; Prior Appropriation; Hybrid Systems and Other Variations; Rights to Use the Surface of Waterways; Groundwater; Diffused Surface Waters; Federal and Indian Reserved Rights; Federal Control of Water and Water Development; Interstate Allocation; Water Service and Supply Organizations.

Title: Water Law ISBN10: 0314737790 EAN: 9780314737793 Genre: LAW / Natural Resources Author: Getches, David H.; Getches CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

7. Pre-Owned Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California (Hardcover) 0520072456 9780520072459

Western Times and Water Wars chronicles more than a hundred years of tumultuous events in the history of California's Owens Valley. From the pioneer conquest of the native inhabitants to the infamous destruction of the valley's agrarian economy by water-hungry Los Angeles, this legendary setting is a microcosm of the development of the American West.

Title: Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California ISBN10: 0520072456 EAN: 9780520072459 Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Author: Walton, John CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

8. Pre-Owned Should Trees Have Standing?: Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (Paperback) 0935382690 9780935382693

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the 35th anniversary edition of this remarkably influential book, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on the courts, the academy, and society as a whole. At the heart of the book is an eminently sensible, legally sound, and compelling argument that the environment should be granted legal rights. For the new edition, Stone explores a variety of recent cases and current events--and related topics such as climate change and protecting the oceans--providing a thoughtful survey of the past and an insightful glimpse at the future of the environmental movement. This enduring work continues to serve as the definitive statement as to why trees, oceans, animals, and the environment as a whole should be bestowed with legal rights, so that the voiceless elements in nature are protected for future generations.

Title: Should Trees Have Standing?: Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects ISBN10: 0935382690 EAN: 9780935382693 Genre: LAW / Natural Resources Author: Stone, Christopher D. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

9. Storm Over Mono 0520203682 (Paperback - Used)

A dramatic environmental saga unfolds in John Hart's compelling story of the fight to save Mono Lake. This ancient inland sea, in the eastern Sierra near Yosemite National Park, is among the oldest in North America. But over the past fifty years, as its feeder streams were steadily drained to supply water to ever-growing, ever-thirsty Los Angeles, the lake's water volume eventually was reduced by half. Mono Lake's bizarre but productive ecosystem began to collapse: salinity greatly increased, nesting and migrating birds were threatened, and fierce alkali dust storms became a common occurrence. Then, in the mid-1970s, a handful of people, most of them students with minimal financial resources, began a campaign to save the dying lake. They took on not only Los Angeles but the entire state government and a whole way of thinking about water. Their fight seemed doomed in the beginning, but long years of grassroots education and effort finally paid off. In 1994, the California Water Resources Control Board ruled that Los Angeles's use of Mono Lake's waters be restricted. Over time, the lake will return to a healthy condition. John Hart integrates natural, social, and political history into a story that is a source of hope for anyone concerned about the environment. Storm over Mono demonstrates the important role of science in public policy debates and validates the concept of the public trust, the idea that certain things belong to us all, not metaphorically but in simple legal fact. Complementing Hart's narrative are 32 stunning color photographs by a dozen leading nature photographers, along with numerous black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and maps.

Title: Storm Over Mono ISBN10: 0520203682 EAN: 9780520203686 Author: Hart, John CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.