Constitutions and the Commons: The Impact of Federal Governance on Local, National, and Global Resource Management

ISBN-13: 9781138574793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 278 str.

Blake Hudson

Opis

Constitutions and the Commons looks at a critical but little examined issue of the degree to which the federal constitution of a nation contributes toward or limits the ability of the national government to manage its natural resources (or commons). Furthermore it considers how far the constitution facilitates the binding of constituent states or subnational units to honor the conditions of international environmental treaties.

Spis treści

Part 1: Constitutionalization of the Commons  1. Introduction  2. Natural Capital Commons and Keystone Constitutions: The Theoretical Context  Part 2: Decentralization of the Commons  3. Federal Systems as a Nested Commons: The Case of United States Decentralization  Part 3: Federalization of the Commons  4. Commerce in the Commons  5. Dynamic Commons Resources, Undynamic Federalism  Part 4: Internationalization of the Commons  6. Domestic Federalism’s Potential Limitation on International Law: a U.S. Forest Case Study  7. Forest Commons, Climate Change, and Federalism Beyond the United States: A Survey of Federal Systems  8. Keying on Federal Systems with Weak Keystone Constitutions: The Role of Private Versus Public Forest Ownership in U.S. and Canadian Law and Policy  Part 5: Fortification of Commons Constitutions  9. Forging Fail-safe Federalism by Strengthening Keystone Constitutions  Conclusion

O autorze

Blake Hudson is Associate Professor at both the Paul M. Hebert Law Center and the School of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, USA.