Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Natural Resources

Price formation in the energy supply industry is one of the most widely discussed issues in today's energy economy. This work provides practical answers to a wide range of questions. After a systematic introduction to the topic, renowned experts and practitioners examine the particular factors affecting price formation in each sub-area or value chain.

Gesetz zum Schutz vor schadlichen Bodenveranderungen und zur Sanierung von Altlasten (Bundes-Bodenschutzgesetz - BBodSchG) mit Bundes-Bodenschutz- und Altlastenverordnung (BBodSchV)

1. Auflage 2014

Stand: 06. Juni 2014

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The world's freshwater supplies are increasingly threatened by rapidly increasing demand and the impacts of global climate change, but current approaches to transboundary water management are unsustainable and may threaten future global stability and international security. The absence of law in attempts to address this issue highlights the necessity for further understanding from the legal perspective.

This book provides a fresh conceptualisation of water security, developing an operational methodology for identifying the four core elements of water security which must be...

Conflict over the extraction of coal and gas resources has rapidly escalated in communities throughout the world. Using an environmental justice lens, this multi-disciplinary book explores cases of land use conflict through the lived experiences of communities grappling with such disputes.

Drawing on theories of justice and fairness in environmental decision making, it demonstrates how such land use conflicts concerning resource use can become entrenched social problems, resistant to policy and legal intervention. The author presents three case studies from New South Wales in Australia...

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "the tragedy of the commons." Drawing on the classic work of Elinor Ostrom and the readings of political ecology, this book questions the application of exclusive property rights to mobile pastoralism and rangeland resource governance. It argues that this approach inadequately represents property relations in the context of Mongolian pastoralism.

The author presents an in-depth exploration and analysis of mobile pastoral production and resource management in Mongolia. The...