Wetlands Water And The Law

Author : Clare Shine,Cyrille de Klemm
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 2831704782

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Wetlands, Water, and the Law by Clare Shine,Cyrille de Klemm Pdf

This publication sets wetlands in their scientific, economic and legal context, before describing the main legal issues involved in implementing the Ramsar Convention. Parts 3-6 take an increasingly broad focus, dealing respectively with site-specific and bioregional approaches to wetland management, generally-applicable techniques for managing damaging processes and activities and, lastly, regional and international frameworks for cooperation. The book complements the recent work of scientists and economists by describing how laws and institutions can work for (or against) wetland conservation and wise use. Each chapter makes the link between international legal obligations and national or local mechanisms for delivering implementation. Drawing on national practice around the world, the book illustrates how different legal approaches and techniques can be adapted to widely-varying national conditions and capabilities. Key components for legal and institutional frameworks suited to the challenge of wise use implementations are set out in the conclusion.

Author : David R. Percy,Environmental Law Centre (Alta.)
Publisher : Environmental Law Centre (Alberta) Society
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060931560

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Wetlands and the Law in the Prairie Provinces of Canada by David R. Percy,Environmental Law Centre (Alta.) Pdf

Author : Arlene J. Kwasniak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Wetland conservation
ISBN : 0919269532

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Alberta's Wetlands by Arlene J. Kwasniak Pdf

Author : Theda Braddock,Lisa Berntsen
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781591919681

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Wetlands by Theda Braddock,Lisa Berntsen Pdf

This new edition explains what wetlands are and how they fit into our complex environmental systems. It incorporates recent court cases and regulations, discusses the functions and values of wetlands, and details the scientific classification of wetlands.

Author : Kim Diana Connolly,Stephen M. Johnson,Douglas R. Williams
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590312864

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Wetlands Law and Policy by Kim Diana Connolly,Stephen M. Johnson,Douglas R. Williams Pdf

Focusing on the Clean Water Act's Section 404 permitting program, this comprehensive analysis of the government's evolving role in protecting wetlands covers the scientific, social, and legal implications of Section 404, and includes chapters detailing wetlands ecology, the states' role in implementing these policies, takings issues, judicial review, and agricultural programs.

Author : Ronald Keith Gaddie,James L. Regens
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791443507

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Regulating Wetlands Protection by Ronald Keith Gaddie,James L. Regens Pdf

Wetlands are a valuable natural resource, yet over 200,000 acres are destroyed in the United States per year. This book examines whether states should assume the role of protecting wetlands rather than the federal government.

Author : Committee on Characterization of Wetlands,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309587228

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Wetlands by Committee on Characterization of Wetlands,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council Pdf

"Wetlands" has become a hot word in the current environmental debate. But what does it signify? In 1991, proposed changes in the legal definities of wetlands stirred controversy and focused attention on the scientific and economic aspects of their management. This volume explores how to define wetlands. The committee--whose members were drawn from academia, government, business, and the environmental community--builds a rational, scientific basis for delineating wetlands in the landscape and offers recommendations for further action. Wetlands also discusses the diverse hydrological and ecological functions of wetlands, and makes recommendations concerning so-called controversial areas such as permafrost wetlands, riparian ecosystems, irregularly flooded sites, and agricultural wetlands. It presents criteria for identifying wetlands and explores the problems of applying those criteria when there are seasonal changes in water levels. This comprehensive and practical volume will be of interest to environmental scientists and advocates, hydrologists, policymakers, regulators, faculty, researchers, and students of environmental studies.

Author : Darcy M. Tkachuk,Canadian Institute of Resources Law
Publisher : Calgary : Canadian Institute of Resources Law = Institut canadien du droit des ressources
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Wetland conservation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060071532

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Alberta's Wetlands by Darcy M. Tkachuk,Canadian Institute of Resources Law Pdf

Author : Mark S Dennison,James F Berry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 081551333X

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Wetlands by Mark S Dennison,James F Berry Pdf

This book is intended as a practical guide to scientific, legal, and technical issues concerning wetlands. As such, it is written in the most practical terms, with numerous helpful examples and case studies of how specific issues should best be addressed. The book is organized in a way that exposes the reader in logical succession to the full gamut of complex scientific, legal, and technical aspects of wetlands. This book recognizes that wetland science, law, and technology are interdependent disciplines. Most other works focus on one of these disciplines while perhaps providing some cursory treatment of related disciplines. This book attempts to meld several different perspectives on the subject of wetlands and to show the interrelationships between the various professions that deal with wetland issues. The book is organized as a guide through the various scientific, legal, and technical components of wetlands. Within each individual chapter, extensive cross-referencing is provided to help the reader link related aspects of the issue being discussed. Further, within the presentation of each separate chapter is a discussion of how the various scientific, legal, and technical aspects of the subject interrelate. Each chapter has been written by a known authority with specialized experience in the topic being presented.

Author : William L. Want
Publisher : C. Boardman
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015015451688

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Law of Wetlands Regulation by William L. Want Pdf

Author : Pauline Lynch-Stewart,Ingrid Kessel-Taylor,C. D. A. Rubec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Wetland conservation
ISBN : MINN:31951D01935248D

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Wetlands and Government by Pauline Lynch-Stewart,Ingrid Kessel-Taylor,C. D. A. Rubec Pdf

The purpose of this paper is to describe Canada's frameworks for wetland conservation. It first describes the policy framework, looking at federal, provincial, and industry sector policies on wetlands. It then reviews the legislative framework, summarizing federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdiction & statutes concerning wetlands. The final section summarizes common themes & features found in wetland policies, discusses their evolution, and indicates issues for further study. Appendices include a discussion of wetland definitions and a summary of wetland policies & statutes by jurisdiction.

Author : William M. Lewis Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198030215

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Wetlands Explained by William M. Lewis Jr. Pdf

This book brings together in compact form a broad scientific and sociopolitical view of US wetlands. This primer lays out the science and policy considerations to help in navigating this branch of science that is so central to conservation policy, ecosystem science and wetland regulation. It gives explanations of the attributes, functions and values of our wetlands and shows how and why public attitudes toward wetlands have changed, and the political, legal, and social conflicts that have developed from legislation intended to stem the rapid losses of wetlands. The book describes the role of wetland science in facilitating the evolution of a rational and defensible system for regulating wetlands and will shed light on many of the problems and possibilities facing those who quest to protect and conserve our wetlands.

Author : Royal C Gardner
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610910255

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Lawyers, Swamps, and Money by Royal C Gardner Pdf

Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is an accessible, engaging guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them. Readers will first learn the basics of administrative law: how agencies receive and exercise their authority, how they actually make laws, and how stakeholders can influence their behavior through the Executive Branch, Congress, the courts, and the media. These core concepts provide a base of knowledge for successive discussions of: the geographic scope and activities covered by the Clean Water Act the curious relationship between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency the goal of no net loss of wetlands the role of entrepreneurial wetland mitigation banking the tension between wetland mitigation bankers and in-lieu fee mitigation programs wetland regulation and private property rights. The book concludes with insightful policy recommendations to make wetlands law less ambiguous and more effective. A prominent legal scholar and wetlands expert, professor Royal C. Gardner has a rare knack for describing landmark cases and key statutes with uncommon clarity and even humor. Students of environmental law and policy and natural resource professionals will gain the thorough understanding of administrative law needed to navigate wetlands policy-and they may even enjoy it.

Author : Craig Anthony Arnold
Publisher : Environmental Law Institute
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1585760897

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Wet Growth by Craig Anthony Arnold Pdf

It is unrealistic and unwise to believe that water law will or should govern land use decisions, or alternatively that land use planning and regulation will or should govern water management. Nonetheless, the initially unsettling question of whether one area of law and policy should control the other provokes discussion and reflection on both why and how we might move toward greater integration of land and water controls. Wet Growth: Should Water Law Control Land Use? was written as a means to disseminate new ideas about the land/water interface in law and policy and provides an overview of the relevant issues, current trends toward integrating land and water controls, and prospects for further progress. The authors of this book describe the nature and costs of our currently fragmented management of land and water resources that results in unsustainable practices and suggest principles that should guide and direct our response to these problems. Although they take differing perspectives, the authors share common, or at least overlapping, observations about the fragmentation and integration of land and water controls.

Author : Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01
Category : Water quality management
ISBN : 0929047974

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Water Quality and Wetlands by Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Pdf