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“robert haskell abrams”

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  • Water Rights and Environmental Regulation

    A Lawyer's Guide

    Edited by Robert Haskell Abrams, Latravia Latravia Smith ...
    Written by practitioners in private practice, government, and academia, each with extensive experience in the area, the book begins by looking at the rights to use water based on both state and federal law, as well as the issues involved in waters that cross state boundaries and in the shared control of water between the U.S. and Mexico and Canada. Further exploring the extent of federal ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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  • Should Trees Have Standing?

    Law, Morality, and the Environment

    by Christopher D. Stone ...
    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 ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Nowhere to Live

    The Hidden Story of America's Housing Crisis

    by James S. Burling ...
    A century of policy mistakes ruined America’s cities and created an unprecedented housing crisis.For many families, homelessness is no longer someone else’s problem. It is right around the corner, a real threat in their own immediate future. Our housing crisis is the result of a long history of government policies, court cases, and political manipulation. While these disparate causes make up a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Your Next Government?

    From the Nation State to Stateless Nations

    by Tom W. Bell ...
    Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions - common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Crossing the Next Meridian

    Land, Water, and the Future of the West

    by Charles F. Wilkinson ...
    In Crossing the Next Meridian, Charles F. Wilkinson, an expert on federal public lands, Native American issues, and the West's arcane water laws explains some of the core problems facing the American West now and in the years to come. He examines the outmoded ideas that pervade land use and resource allocation and argues that significant reform of Western law is needed to combat desertification ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Our Common Ground

    A History of America's Public Lands

    by John D. Leshy ...
    The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation’s land and manage it primarily for recreation, education and conservation.“A much-needed chronicle of how the American people decided––wisely and democratically––that nearly a third of the nation’s land surface should remain in our collective ownership and be managed for our common good.”—Dayton Duncan, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Wildlife Law, Second Edition

    A Primer

    by Eric T. Freyfogle, Dale D. Goble, Todd A. Wildermuth, Dr. ...
    Wildlife is an important and cherished element of our natural heritage in the United States. But state and federal laws governing the ways we interact with wildlife can be complex to interpret and apply. Ten years ago, Wildlife Law: A Primer was the first book to lucidly explain wildlife law for readers with little or no legal training who needed to understand its intricacies. Today, navigating ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Government Pirates

    The Assault on Private Property Rights—and How We Can Fight It

    by Don Corace ...
    After years of hard work and saving, you finally own a home. But don't get too comfortable. If government officials decide they want your property, they can take it—for a wide variety of shady reasons that go far beyond the usual definition of "public purposes." The courts have allowed these injustices to persist. And there is nothing you can do about it—not yet.Real estate developer and property ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Public Lands

    Preservation, Extraction, and Politics on the Fifty States' Natural Resource Lands

    by Steven Davis ...
    For most Americans, state lands are the most readily accessible type of public land; however, despite their ubiquity, they remain largely terra incognita. The Other Public Lands is a primer on state public lands and the political dynamics that underlie their management. Offering a wide-angle overview, Steven Davis focuses on how states prioritize competing claims related to conservation, resource ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Water War in the Klamath Basin

    Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics

    by Holly D. Doremus, A. Dan Tarlock ...
    In the drought summer of 2001, a simmering conflict between agricultural and environmental interests in southern Oregon’s Upper Klamath Basin turned into a guerrilla war of protests, vandalism, and apocalyptic rhetoric when the federal Bureau of Reclamation shut down the headgates of the Klamath Project to conserve water needed by endangered species. This was the first time in U.S. history that ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers

    by P. Andrew Jones, Tom Cech ...
    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 ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • The National Wildlife Refuges

    Coordinating A Conservation System Through Law

    by Robert L. Fischman ...
    The National Wildlife Refuges provides a comprehensive examination of the laws and policies governing management of the national wildlife refuges, offering for the first time a practical description and analysis of the management regime outlined in the 1997 National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act. The 1997 act is the first new statute governing a system of federal public lands enacted ... Read more

    $25.19 USD