About the Book:More than 50 years ago, Franklin Kury drafted and championed an Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution, which was enacted on Earth Day 1970 and ratified by Pennsylvania’s voters a year later. In the half century since then, climate change has become the overriding threat to the environment of the planet. In this book, Franklin Kury expands upon the story of Article I, Section 27, to demonstrate how its principles can be the basis for addressing climate change in the rest of the world. The story concludes with a call for the federal government’s leadership to seek a national environmental rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution and a treaty to expand its reach to the international community.About the Author:Franklin Kury served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1966 to 1972 and the Pennsylvania Senate from 1972 to 1980. As a state representative, Kury was the author and lead advocate of the legislative proposal that became the Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution (Article 1, Section 27) that is the basis of this book. After leaving the legislature, Kury was a member of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. Read more

In countless ways we are affected by international environmental norms: some social, others legal; some quite general, others very specific. For example, the norms limiting the refrigerants used in air conditioners have been agreed upon in legal form internationally, and are mandated and enforced by national governments. The sustainable fishery and forestry standards used by Carrefour and Ikea were developed more informally by environmental groups and businesses, and are applied to producers through supply-chain contracts, without any government involvement. The reluctance to eat tuna fish or own elephant ivory reflects more general social norms, disseminated through education and culture.How and why do these norms arise? In what ways do they affect behavior? Do they change what states and individuals actually do and, if so, why? How effective are they in solving international environmental problems? In the second edition of The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, Daniel Bodansky and Harro van Asselt explore these and other questions.Revisions cover the numerous developments spanning the 13 years since the first edition was published. New chapters address the growing role of environmental NGOs and the increasingly complex architecture of environmental law involving multiple institutions, levels of governance, and actors. Recent research has been incorporated on treaty design and policy implementation and effectiveness, and greater attention has been given to the role of the judiciary in standard-setting, implementation, and enforcement.A sophisticated yet highly readable introduction to how international environmental law works (and sometimes doesn't work), this book is essential reading for a wide audience. Read more

From Floor Plans to Move-In Ready—The Ultimate Guide to Your Perfect Barndominium!✅ Dreaming of a unique, cost-effective home that combines rustic charm with modern luxury?✅ Want to build a stunning, energy-efficient Barndominium but unsure where to start?✅ Need expert guidance on planning, designing, and financing your ideal barndo?If so, The Barndominium Bible is your all-in-one roadmap to transforming your vision into reality!Barndominiums aren’t just homes—they’re a lifestyle.These steel-frame beauties offer affordability, durability, and customization like no traditional house can. Whether you want an open-concept masterpiece, a cozy country retreat, or a functional live-work space, this book will guide you step by step. Inside, you'll discover:☛ Planning & Budgeting Made Simple – Learn how to set a realistic budget, choose the perfect location, and avoid costly mistakes. Includes a real cost breakdown for a Central Texas barndo!☛ Expert-Designed Floor Plans & Layouts – Get inspired with ready-to-use designs that maximize space, comfort, and style.☛ Construction Secrets & Pro Tips – Steel vs. wood framing? Best insulation choices? Roofing that lasts? We cover it all, ensuring your barndo is built to stand the test of time.☛ Interior & Smart Home Features – From stunning finishes to energy-efficient tech, create a home that’s as smart as it is beautiful.☛ Permits, Zoning & Financing Hacks – Navigate legal requirements with ease and discover the best financing options to bring your dream home to life.☛ Future-Proofing & Expansion – Want to add a workshop, deck, or extra rooms? Learn how to plan for future upgrades while staying within budget.🎁 And Exclusive Access to These Bonuses:✅ Barndominium Floor Plans & Designs – An extensive collection of stunning, functional layouts to jumpstart your project.✅ Mega Q&A Guide – Practical answers to 100+ frequently asked questions on zoning, materials, costs, and more.Building a home doesn’t have to be overwhelming. With this step-by-step blueprint, you’ll have the confidence to design and build a barndominium that fits your lifestyle and budget.Don’t wait! Click "Buy Now" and start your journey to owning the perfect barndo today! Read more

What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regulators and legislators use to protect the public from dangerous products? As this disturbing book shows, ideological or economic attacks on research are part of an extensive pattern of abuse.Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner reveal the range of sophisticated legal and financial tactics political and corporate advocates use to discredit or suppress research on potential human health hazards. Scientists can find their research blocked, or find themselves threatened with financial ruin. Corporations, plaintiff attorneys, think tanks, even government agencies have been caught suppressing or distorting research on the safety of chemical products.With alarming stories drawn from the public record, McGarity and Wagner describe how advocates attempt to bend science or “spin” findings. They reveal an immense range of tools available to shrewd partisans determined to manipulate research.Bending Science exposes an astonishing pattern of corruption and makes a compelling case for reforms to safeguard both the integrity of science and the public health. Read more

Why do people fight about water rights? Who decides how much water can be used by a city or irrigator? Does the federal government get involved in state water issues? Why is water in Colorado so controversial? These questions, and others like them, are addressed in Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers. This concise and understandable treatment of the complex web of Colorado water laws is the first book of its kind. Legal issues related to water rights in Colorado first surfaced during the gold mining era in the 1800s and continue to be contentious today with the explosive population growth of the twenty-first century. Drawing on geography and history, the authors explore the flashpoints and water wars that have shaped Colorado’s present system of water allocation and management. They also address how this system, developed in the mid-1800s, is standing up to current tests—including the drought of the past decade and the competing interests for scarce water resources—and predict how it will stand up to new demands in the future.This book will appeal to at students, non-lawyers involved with water issues, and general readers interested in Colorado’s complex water rights law. Read more

Gone are the days of simple and concise hunting and fishing regulations in the Great State of Washington. Regulatory justifications like “The Best Available Science,”have come to mean knee jerk reactions taken by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, often times based on political issues and “Extremely Bad Science.” When a Fish and wildlife officer reports to work each day he or she cannot be sure of what areas are open or closed, yet the general public is held civilly and often criminally liable, if they don’t.The folks that are to blame tend not to be consumers of natural resource opportunities. Yet they believe that they can manage fish and wildlife despite a near total lack of perspective. The victims are the men and women tasked with enforcing these laws and the recreational hunters and fishers expected to abide by them.Game Warden Gone Rogue, written by a 39 year veteran of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, addresses many of these issues while applying real life experience. Read more

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More Than Human Rights includes contributions from leading lawyers, scientists, philosophers, and writers from around the world who participated in the inaugural gathering of the More-Than-Human Rights (MOTH) project. The volume discusses the philosophical, legal, and scientific foundations of the MOTH framework as well as its implications for ideas and practices in fields such as law, human rights, ecology, politics, and storytelling.Building on the invitation of Indigenous knowledge and ecological sciences to expand our sensorial and moral horizon and see ourselves again as part of Earth’s web of life, the provocation of this book is to locate rights in the more-than-human world. Among the questions guiding the book are: What theoretical and legal approaches can solidify the foundations of the rights of nature? How do findings from the natural sciences, Indigenous knowledge, and other fields shed new light on the idea of the rights of nature? What types of nonhuman entities should be protected? What types of rights should they be recognized as holding? What are the lessons from existing legislation, constitutional provisions, and lawsuits that embrace this notion? More broadly, how can we conceive of “human rights without human supremacism”? Read more

A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation.The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution. People, Cronon argues, are inextricably tied to nature, whether they live in cities or countryside. Rather than attempt to exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn to live in some sustainable relationship with nature. It is our home. Read more

As water becomes ever more important in a rapidly growing United States challenged by lessening firm-yield water reliability, the public needs to understand the myriads of quite different state-by-state water policies. States share surface water and groundwater sources that relate to each other conjunctively. Texans for example, should understand New Mexico water ownership and state policies because they share surface water and groundwater sources. Californians should understand Nevada’s water policies for the same reasons. Above all else, the people of the United States must realize that a water policy in one state can drastically impact water availability in neighboring states. Although the federal government has supra-legal authority over some state water policies and acts as the ultimate arbiter of interstate disputes, no one current book exists that explains the complicated relationships between state water policies with an analysis of federal water policies.Water Rights in the United States : A Guide through the Maze is a one-stop resource providing a state-by-state analysis of water ownership, regulatory agencies, and water polices. It explains the complicated relationships between state water policies and provides an analysis of federal water polices. How we manage these policies is of utmost importance to all Americans. Read more

For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands’ future sustainability. With the future of Hawai‘i’s precious water resources at a critical stage, this book is a groundbreaking exploration of water in Hawaiʻi that bridges ancestral place-based knowledge with present challenges faced by community members, cultural activists, academics, scientists, and policymakers alike. In Waiwai: Water and the Future of Hawai‘i, Kamanamaikalani Beamer brings together experts from diverse fields to tackle complex issues in water management. Indigenous scholars recount how ancestral abundance revolved around the movement and health of water and articulate how these guiding principles transitioned to exploitation by plantation industrialists after the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Legal scholars unpack the web of regulations governing water rights; scientists assess the damage already done to aquifers and ecosystems and suggest ways to improve them. The book also investigates environmental responsibility in the case of the fuel leak from the US Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, giving county officials and community advocates a chance to uplift the concerns of those most impacted by the devastating tragedy.While providing readers with critical knowledge of the current status of water, the book’s ultimate goal is to catalyze action. Chapter contributors aim to answer the central question: “What do people need to know about the future of water in Hawaiʻi, and what can they do to enable a better future?” The result is a bold vision for how everyone can work together for the long-term health of these islands we call home. Both accessible and critical, Waiwai sounds an alarm about the precarious state of water in Hawaiʻi. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration that illuminates past mistakes, makes clear present challenges, and equips readers with the knowledge and tools to come together and chart a way forward. With this book as a guide, community members, academics, scientists, policymakers, and aspiring visionaries are invited to redirect the course of water management toward sustainability, ensuring a legacy of abundance for future generations. Read more

Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution or environmental destruction. Ensuring a clean environment is ethically desirable, and also sensible from a purely self-interested perspective. Yet, in practice, environmental law is a messy and complex business fraught with conflict. Whilst environmental law is often characterized in overly simplistic terms, with a law being seen as be a magic wand that solves an environmental problem, the reality is that creating and maintaining a body of laws to address and avoid problems is not easy, and involves legislators, courts, regulators and communities. This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the main features of environmental law, and discusses how environmental law deals with multiple interests, socio-political conflicts, and the limits of knowledge about the environment. Showing how interdependent societies across the world have developed robust and legitimate bodies of law to address environmental problems, Elizabeth Fisher discusses some of the major issues involved in environmental law's: nation statehood, power, the reframing role of law, the need to ensure real environmental improvements, and environmental justice. As Fisher explains, environmental law is, and will always be, necessary but inherently controversial. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. Read more

The handbook covers established principles, processes, and practices, and recent developments in regulatory, policy, planning, contracting, and financing spaces to support the development of energy solutions. It also covers risks, mitigation strategies and sustainability considerations. In addition, this handbook provides examples of contract clauses where applicable and a few use cases. This handbook does not cover specific energy practice in-depth, nor does it purport to provide a comprehensive summary of all important points related to energy contract, development, and practice. This handbook assumes that the reader has a general background knowledge of energy law and is focused on energy contracts. However, this handbook describes many attributes of the various energy contracts, risks, and mitigation strategies that contracting parties can consider. It also provides key points that the author feels captures his expressions in each of the topics. This includes Power purchase agreements (PPAs), joint venture agreements, international best practices in renewable energy, and electricity markets, and oil and gas. Read more

This is the Second Edition of “EXPOSURE: Surviving Historical Ft. McClellan.” There have been some adjustments to the content, mostly corrections. There are some minor updates since the original publication in 2020. The Works Cited URLs have been re-validated to the extent possible. William "Bill" Bonk, currently a licensed private investigator, draws attention to the real possibility that veterans, their families, and civilians once assigned to the now decommissioned, formerly active-duty U.S. Army base, Fort McClellan (FMC), Alabama were subjected to toxic exposure. Former trainees, trainers, cadre, staff, and civilians were potentially unknowingly exposed to chemical weapon material, biological agents, ionizing radiation, heavy metals, PCBs, and a wide range of pesticides and herbicides and other toxic chemicals and substances starting in the early 1950s and continuing through 1999 and beyond. “I wanted to attract the attention of the 535 members of the U.S. Congress,” said Bonk, also a retired supervisory criminal investigator and former U.S. Army military police staff sergeant who trained at FMC in the early 80s. “I wanted Congress to be able to have a reason to move forward with an FMC health registry and work toward presumptive illnesses within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.” The overwhelming majority of sources and content within “EXPOSURE” have been derived from U.S. government reports.FMC veterans, their families, and civilians were likely adversely affected by exposure to dangerous contaminants. The sad reality according to Bonk is, “Because of latency, dosage, time, risk factors, and lack of documentation, FMC veterans have to fight individually to attempt to prove an in- service event and the service connection with a nexus between the two. However, the VA, enabled by lack of legislation by Congress has been able to engage in conscious bias directed towards FMC veterans – hiding behind this statement on the VA’s dedicated FMC webpage; “There are currently no adverse health conditions associated with service at Fort McClellan.”Bonk establishes a detailed chronology of contamination and meticulously traces the post’s historical use of hazardous materials, such as the chemical weapons material, ionizing radiation, pesticides, solvents, and heavy metals. U.S. government reports, open source news articles, and multiple interviews with trainees and trainers stationed at FMC are the basis for this book. Ft. McClellan, almost 50,000 acres, was originally home to the Women’s Army Corps as well as the U.S. Army’s Chemical and s Military Police schools. The reports often reveal ambiguity, uncertainty, speculation, and a total lack of due diligence when rendering conclusions and recommendations regarding contaminated parcels.At this point, Bonk says the government “seemingly has very little interest in even determining if FMC veterans are suffering from occupational illnesses due to the chemical exposure” and doesn’t presume that any adverse health conditions are associated with service at the post despite the expenditure of billions of dollars to “investigate” contaminants on, around, and under the historical FMC and cleanup of the adjacent city of Anniston and nearby Anniston Army Depot. Further exacerbating the contamination was the nearby Monsanto plant that manufactured PCBs for decades. U.S. government reports as well as the companies own available records suggest PCB waste entered the water, soil, and air for decades.“We truly don’t know what we don’t know about the hazards on the historical FMC until we peel back the layers and connect the dots,” according to Bonk. Read more

In the tradition of A Civil Ac tion—the true story of a North Carolina outdoorsman who teams up with his Appalachian “mountain people” neighbors to save treasured land from being destroyed Living alone in his wooded mountain retreat, Jay Leutze gets a call from a whip-smart fourteen-year-old, Ashley Cook, and her aunt, Ollie Cox, who say a mining company is intent on tearing down Belview Mountain, the towering peak above their house. Ashley and her family, who live in a little spot known locally as Dog Town, are “mountain people,” with a way of life and speech unique to their home high in the Appalachians. They suspect the mining company is violating the law, and they want Jay, a nonpracticing attorney, to stop the destruction of the mountain. Jay, a devoted naturalist and fisherman, quickly decides to join their cause. So begins the epic quest of the “Dog Town Bunch,” a battle that involves fiery public hearings, clandestine surveillance of the mine operator’s activities, ferocious pressure on public officials, and high-stakes legal brinksmanship in the North Carolina court system. Jay helps assemble a talented group of environmental lawyers to do battle with the well-funded attorneys protecting the mining company’s plan to dynamite Belview Mountain, which happens to sit next to the famous Appalachian Trail, the 2,184-mile national park that stretches from Maine to Georgia. As the mining company continues to level the forest and erect a gigantic rock-crushing plant on the site, Jay’s group searches frantically for a way to stop an act of environmental desecration that will destroy a fragile wild place and mar the Appalachian Trail forever. Much more than the record of a legal battle, Stand Up That Mountain takes the reader to a remote corner of Appalachia, a region often stereotyped and little understood, even now in the twenty-first century. A naturally elegant writer, Jay Leutze delivers a powerful, beautifully written story full of remarkable characters, such as “Wingfoot,” an elusive protector of the Appalachian Trail; a stubborn mining company engineer intent on pulling down the mountain in the face of intense opposition; and Ron Howell, a retired and legendary North Carolina Superior Court judge known as the “Heel Hound” for his relentless pursuit of legal victory. Jay’s plaintiff group is eventually joined by several national conservation groups who see that Belview Mountain and the Appalachian Trail must be protected for future generations of Americans. A great contemporary story that demonstrates what is possible when local people set their minds to righting a local wrong, Stand Up That Mountain will appeal to conservationists, hikers, attorneys, and readers fascinated by Appalachia and rural life, and anyone interested in a compelling story both well told and true. Read more

During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and biodiversity, or in other words, what Nature does for us. From recycling miracles in the soil to the abundant genetic codebook underpinning our food and pharmaceutical needs, Nature provides the ecosystem services that underlie our economies. This book is fi lled with immediately impactful stories of the challenges and grave problems that we face; as well as with tales that reveal the promise of more enlightened activity. Tony Juniper’s book will change the way you think about life, the planet and the economy. Read more

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Air pollution could be natural or caused by humans. In this book, we’re going to learn all about air pollution. Such knowledge can be used to help your child become aware on how to take care of the environment on his/her own. Use this book as a bedtime story, or to calm your child down when he/she is throwing a fit. Have fun reading! Read more

In the first book IPJET published in 2007 on the legal issues involved in the Western Sahara dispute a number of esteemed scholars discussed a myriad of issues that were pertinent to the topic at that time. Since then a number of other issues have arisen which have added to or complemented the discussions raised in that book, and the current edition seeks to present some of the most important of these in four sections: first, an updated discussion of the right to self-determination as it applies to Western Sahara; second, a discussion of human rights developments in the territory; third, an examination of the current exploitation of the territory's resources; and fourth, an expose of the international political elements that have hindered the application of international law principles to the territory. Read more