Students, university faculty, and wildlife professionals now have an indispensable book that provides a full and accurate account of natural resource policy and law as it relates to wildlife in North America and beyond. The comprehensive text begins with an in-depth examination of wildlife policy and law, creating a foundation for the subsequent detailed material.

This introductory section covers the need and history of wildlife policy and law, wildlife and gun ownership, history of wildlife law and law enforcement, jurisdictional issues among federal, state, provincial, and indigenous peoples as they relate to natural resource management, processes by which policy and laws are formed at various levels of government, statutory law and agency rule-making, relationships of indigenous peoples to natural resources, and usage of natural resources for subsistence.

With this foundation set, readers are greeted with informative sections covering:

• The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Public Trust Doctrine,
• Federal and Canadian jurisdiction, with detailed discussions on dozens of acts including their impacts and challenges, ranging from the Lacey Act to the Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act, and others,
• The how and why behind federal, state and provincial agencies, and conservation organizations,
• An overview of international wildlife conservation and how it contrasts with North American policy,
• The policy job in conservation and what processes are involved when developing and implementing policy and law, and
• The various roles of the citizenry and wildlife professionals in policy making.

The book concludes with an informative discussion of the politics of managing wildlife and natural resources, including roles of political parties, elected officials, government agencies, the courts, non-profit organizations, the public and the media.

Contributors include professors from prominent wildlife programs across the country and throughout the world, biologists holding top-level jobs in government agencies, and current natural resource professionals on the ground in Washington, D.C.

Memoirs of a former career National Park Ranger, and how he began a career with the National Park Service. This body of work describes many incidents that occurred in his 26 years as a National Park Ranger and how a government bureaucracy impacted this Ranger's life in a job he loved.

This work covers how the National Park Service evolved during his career and focusing on how the park service management dealt with law enforcement issues and including the shooting deaths of three of his close colleagues that were dedicated National Park Rangers. It gives an inside perspective of how a difficult bureaucracy works and identifying mismanagement and rogue law enforcement and management officials in the National Park Service.

Also included in this work is the tragic death of a local schoolteacher killed by a black bear in the Smoky Mountains, where false and misleading information was given to the public, and reveals insights and truths about the investigation, and how and why it was covered up. It identifies the mismanagement of the National Park Service functions in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, including information and negligence regarding the 2016 Wildfires that killed 14 people.

This body of work lays out the facts as they happened. Some are sad, some humorous, and some remarkably interesting. This book will leave you with a new understanding of how the Park Service has steered away from their original mission and how they operate today.

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.

Roberts' dictionary is a comprehensive yet concise guide to the various legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and financial abbreviations, acronyms, terms and phrases which define the oil and gas industry today. The dictionary is divided into three sections: commonly-used acronyms, an A to Z definition of terms and phrases and a series of technical appendices which summarise certain essential aspects of the industry.

Written by a leading practitioner and containing over 7,000 definitions plus a series of technical and narrative appendices, this is an essential guide to interpreting the industry's extensive and complex jargon.

Should Chinese energy investments be excluded from the liberal economic system based on geopolitical assessments only? This book explores the potential regulatory control by the Chinese government over foreign energy investments to achieve their perceived strategic objectives.

Host states in which Chinese energy companies make investments have increasingly opposed Chinese energy investments in their national security reviews, based on concerns that these investments have strategic objectives. The book analyses China's investment-related law, regulations, and energy policies to examine how overseas energy investment-making is governed. The book also explores the role of the Chinese government in energy investment promotion and protection.

Uniquely, the examination of China's potential regulatory control provides an objective criterion, rather than geopolitical considerations, for host states to assess the nature of Chinese energy investments.

The book helps readers to open the 'black box' of Chinese energy investments from a regulatory perspective. It is a useful resource for researchers as well as practising lawyers assisting their Chinese clients through national security reviews, or when trying to determine whether China's SOEs can bring cases before investor-state arbitration tribunals.

This edition combines two previous publications: Oil and Gas in Africa: A Legal and Commercial Analysis of the Upstream Industry and African Upstream Oil and Gas: A Practical Guide to the Law and Regulation, both published by Globe Law and Business in 2015, and has two central elements.

First, it discusses the opportunities and challenges found in topical issues. For example, chapters describe the production sharing contract (PSC) and economic terms governing regional exploration and production activity; and although PSCs are not an exclusive host government instrument, they are of growing importance for countries looking for greater control over and societal benefits from petroleum production. The book also covers OHADA, financing, M&A, security and decommissioning issues in an African context, and new chapters explore natural gas and ESG.

Secondly, the book covers a country-by-country analysis of African oil and gas, detailing the oil and gas frameworks and key issues in countries such as Algeria, Angola, Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Libya, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia and Uganda. Topics addressed include the petroleum laws, the types of legal arrangement in place, the fiscal terms, the acquisition of acreage, governing law, dispute resolution mechanisms and governmental control.

This comprehensive edition features contributions from various leading experts in the industry, including from ministries of petroleum, national oil companies, international oil companies, law firms and consultancies. It will be of benefit to all industry participants and advisers pursuing oil and gas opportunities across the continent.

Mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a work on American Mining Law in this important re-issue of Howell's Lode and Placer Claims. Unavailable since 1908, this publication offers rare insights into mining claims, both lodes and placers, under the American Mining Law system. Chapters include Mining Laws of the United States, Misc. Subjects Relating to Mining Claims, State and Territorial Mining Laws for Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming and Regulations of the General Land Office. A truly unique book on mining law and one of the best guides for mining claim owners. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As such, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

Title 18 presents regulations governing the Department of Energy and other agencies overseeing the conservation of power and water resources. Agencies covered include: the Water Resources Council, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and other similar agencies. This title includes the Federal Power Act, Public Utility Regulatory Act, Natural Gas Act, Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Act, and the Interstate Commerce Act.

The Louisiana Law Institute, with the concurrence of the Mineral Law Section of the Louisiana Bar Association, undertook a project for adoption of a Mineral Code under the direction of Professor Eugene Nabors of the Tulane Law School. That work was continued by Professor George W. Hardy of the LSU Law School after he was appointed Reporter in July, 1963. In 1971 an Exposé des Motifs was published setting forth the statements of general principles that the Reporter and Advisory Committee were submitting to the Law Institute as a basis for legislation.

Mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a work on American Mining Law in this important re-issue of Colorado Mining Rights. Unavailable since 1881, this publication offers rare insights into the 1872 Mining Act and early Colorado mining statutes. The only book of its kind, solely devoted to the rights of miners in the State of Colorado, under both federal, state and local mining laws. At nearly 350 pages, this is one of the more detailed books on American Mining Law and will be of value to miners, historians and those interested in mining law regardless of their state of residence. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As such, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in International Energy Law. The book describes the administrative organization, regulatory framework, and relevant case law pertaining to the development, application, and use of such forms of energy as electricity, gas, petroleum, and coal, with attention as needed to the pervasive legal effects of competition law, environmental law, and tax law.

A general introduction covers the geography of energy resources, sources and basic principles of energy law, and the relevant governmental institutions. Then follows a detailed description of specific legislation and regulation affecting such factors as documentation, undertakings, facilities, storage, pricing, procurement and sales, transportation, transmission, distribution, and supply of each form of energy. Case law, intergovernmental cooperation agreements, and interactions with environmental, tax, and competition law are explained.

Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for energy sector policymakers and energy firm counsel handling cases affecting International Energy Law. It will also be welcomed by researchers and academics for its contribution to the study of a complex field that today stands at the foreground of comparative law.

This is the first textbook to provide a clear understanding of law's role in promoting the global growth of renewable energy production and consumption.

The book introduces readers to the main legal frameworks shaping the rise of renewables at international, regional and national levels, including those which set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing renewable energy consumption.

Clear explanations of challenges commonly confronting renewable developments and the legal responses to them aid readers' understanding whatever their background. The author, a leading researcher in energy and environmental law, has drawn on 10 years' experience of developing and teaching research-led courses on renewable energy law to produce an authoritative but accessible work.

Readers will come away with a better understanding of how international law on climate change and sustainable development affects renewable energy, the roles of renewable energy targets and subsidies, the laws on integrating renewables into electricity networks, the legal response to public opposition to renewable energy development, the law surrounding offshore renewables, and issues raised by the decarbonisation of road transport.

The book is non-fiction. It is the story of one couple who built their dream home on 52 acres of land adjacent to the Nez Perce National Forest and Hells Canyon in 2000. It tells about their efforts to reduce the risk of wild fire through a Firewise USA(R) project and how that effort, though inadequate to save their timber, did save the home.

It is a narrative of the experience of a wife who escapes the fire and a husband who is trapped and presumed killed by the fire. It tells of how they learned of the Poe Cabin Fire (the top priority nationally for four days), fought it, and replanted in the ashes.

At the core of the story is an illegal takings suit against the United States. Readers follow this suit from its filing in March 2012 to settlement more than six years later in October 2018. The issues include how they selected attorneys to plead their case, how judges made their decisions, and how the plaintiffs did or did not work together to make decisions and fund court and experts' costs.

It is a must read as a primer for anyone who lives at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) describing the legal options and pitfalls of trying to recover property taken by the government for the benefit of society. It describes conflicts with other plaintiffs, experts, attorneys, and the court that were unexpected at the outset when deciding to sue the US Forest Service.

As one attorney asked Mr. Chapman, Are you sure you want to file suit? Many landowners do not have the patience, financial resources, and emotional grit to engage in such a suit. It is a must read for landowners and attorneys who have recently experienced an illegal taking or a federal tort and are trying to decide how to proceed against the government. It is a fun read for other readers because of the back stories describing the central characters and how they made decisions.

Die Untersuchung stellt die aktive Rolle der Netzbetreiber als Manager des Elektrizitatssystems heraus und berucksichtigt dabei die Entwicklung eines dezentralisierten und digitalisierten Energiesystems. Sie greift methodisch das System der sog. regulierten Selbstregulierung auf und untersucht Kooperationsprozesse auf europaischer und nationaler Ebene. Dabei nimmt sie ebenfalls informelle Prozesse in den Blick, die einer Rechtsgestaltung vorgelagert sind. Schliesslich prasentiert die Arbeit Ideen zur Verbesserung der derzeitigen Regulierung im Engpassmanagement und formuliert diese als Auftrag an den Gesetzgeber. Damit verbindet sie grundlegende wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse mit der Umsetzung in die Praxis. Die Untersuchung stellt die aktive Rolle der Netzbetreiber als Manager des Elektrizitatssystems heraus und berucksichtigt dabei die Entwicklung eines dezentralisierten und digitalisierten Energiesystems. Sie greift methodisch das System der sog. regulierten Selbstregulierung auf und untersucht Kooperationsprozesse auf europaischer und nationaler Ebene. Dabei nimmt sie ebenfalls informelle Prozesse in den Blick, die einer Rechtsgestaltung vorgelagert sind. Schliesslich prasentiert die Arbeit Ideen zur Verbesserung der derzeitigen Regulierung im Engpassmanagement und formuliert diese als Auftrag an den Gesetzgeber. Damit verbindet sie grundlegende wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse mit der Umsetzung in die Praxis. Die Untersuchung stellt die aktive Rolle der Netzbetreiber als Manager des Elektrizitatssystems heraus und berucksichtigt dabei die Entwicklung eines dezentralisierten und digitalisierten Energiesystems. Sie greift methodisch das System der sog. regulierten Selbstregulierung auf und untersucht Kooperationsprozesse auf europaischer und nationaler Ebene. Dabei nimmt sie ebenfalls informelle Prozesse in den Blick, die einer Rechtsgestaltung vorgelagert sind. Schliesslich prasentiert die Arbeit Ideen zur Verbesserung der derzeitigen Regulierung im Engpassmanagement und formuliert diese als Auftrag an den Gesetzgeber. Damit verbindet sie grundlegende wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse mit der Umsetzung in die Praxis.

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine administered an unprecedented shock to the European and global energy markets, triggering emergency interventions and market reforms to limit the impact of the crisis on energy prices and supply security. More fundamentally, the supply shock sparked a profound reappraisal of foreign supply and infrastructure dependencies (for example, on China), leading states to adopt new legal initiatives to strengthen the resilience of their clean energy supply chains. Energy geopolitics and supply security are now firmly back at the centre of global energy policy, and in this new geopolitical reality, we critically need to reassess the role of energy law in the creation - and avoidance - of dangerous energy dependencies.

Using the 2022 energy crisis as core example, Energy Dependence and Supply Security offers a legal analysis of energy trade and investment as a tool of geopolitical power, an issue seldom considered outside of economic statecraft and energy geopolitics. Anatole Boute's timely analysis illustrates the paradox of energy law and security: legal instruments of energy security have helped create the supply and infrastructure dependencies that allowed for the weaponization of energy. The book examines the legal responses adopted by the European Union to the impact of the Russian energy shock, reflecting on strategies to avoid similar disruptions in the clean energy industry. In turn, it proposes innovative supply security reforms that would allow dependencies to be managed, while still preserving the international collaboration that is needed to accelerate the transition to clean, affordable, and secure energy systems.

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in Taiwan. The book describes the administrative organization, regulatory framework, and relevant case law pertaining to the development, application, and use of such forms of energy as electricity, gas, petroleum, and coal, with attention as needed to the pervasive legal effects of competition law, environmental law, and tax law.

A general introduction covers the geography of energy resources, sources and basic principles of energy law, and the relevant governmental institutions. Then follows a detailed description of specific legislation and regulation affecting such factors as documentation, undertakings, facilities, storage, pricing, procurement and sales, transportation, transmission, distribution, and supply of each form of energy. Case law, intergovernmental cooperation agreements, and interactions with environmental, tax, and competition law are explained.

Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for energy sector policymakers and energy firm counsel handling cases affecting Taiwan. It will also be welcomed by researchers and academics for its contribution to the study of a complex field that today stands at the foreground of comparative law.

Der freien Preisbildung kommt im Strommarkt eine Schlusselrolle zu: Die fur eine sichere Stromversorgung notwendigen Erzeugungskapazitaten sollen sich uber den Markt refinanzieren. Inwieweit ist eine freie Preisbildung im Strommarkt angesichts regulatorischer Eingriffe in den Strommarkt, der kartellrechtlichen Missbrauchsaufsicht und der REMIT-VO uberhaupt moglich? Kim Sylvia Ellenrieder kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die freie Preisbildung auf den Stromgrosshandelsmarkten grundsatzlich funktioniert. Ihre Wirkung als Steuerungsinstrument kann sie jedoch aufgrund von Eingriffen in den Strommarkt (z.B. EEG, Atom- und Kohleausstieg) nicht voll entfalten. Der mit der freien Preisbildung verfolgte Zweck einer moglichst sicheren, effizienten, kostengunstigen und damit auch verbraucherfreundlichen Versorgung der Allgemeinheit mit Elektrizitat wird derzeit verfehlt.

Mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a work on American Mining Law in this important re-issue of Wolcott's Mining Manual. Unavailable since 1899, this publication offers rare insights into the 1872 Mining Act and California and Arizona Mining Laws, as well as other items of interest to miners. A fascinating and informative read. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As such, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

Mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a work on American Mining Law in this important re-issue of A.H. Ricketts' A Manual of American Mining Law. Unavailable since 1911, this publication offers rare insights into the 1872 Mining Act and related American Mining Laws. At over 500 pages, this is considered one of the historical masterpieces on the subject of the United States Mining Law. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As such, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

The petroleum industry is highly specialised. Over the centuries, the industry has developed a large number of standard petroleum regulations, arrangements and contracts that are not necessarily familiar to all across the industry and even less to the outside world. Each regulation/arrangement/contract has its own detailed terms and provisions and experts in this industry tend to be focused on specific phases from such complex industry.

This updated edition provides the unique combination of an encyclopaedia with commentary for the entire chain of petroleum activities. The encyclopaedia deals exclusively with upstream activities. First, it deals with all types of petroleum title with the host government (eg, concession agreements, production sharing agreements and service agreements). Second, it covers all the relevant consortium agreements between investors (eg, joint bidding agreement, joint ventures and joint operating agreements). It also deals with the relevant players in the sector varying from the international oil company to the national oil company; the relevant regulations in the sector (eg, petroleum law, fiscal terms, health, safety and environment and procurement) and the key mechanisms for raising funds in the upstream sector. Lastly, the book covers acquisition mechanisms with government authorities and private parties, and the key issues concerning governing law and dispute resolution.

This new edition provides additional sections on (i) international laws and treaties with direct impact on the upstream sector, (2) anti-corruption laws and practices, (3) corporate and social responsibility, (4) oil and gas service contracts, (5) confidentiality agreement, among others.

This encyclopaedia will serve as a valuable tool for lawyers, professionals in industry, consultants, academics, engineers, geologists who are interested in understanding the key legal terms and provisions of the oil and gas industry.