Energy and natural resources law

This is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to offshore oil and gas floating production.

The threat posed by climate change has not yet been matched by international agreements and economic policies that can deliver sharp reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.

Evaluates and compares risk regulation and safety management for offshore oil and gas operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway and Australia.

Generating energy from waste is an attractive solution, as governments around the world grapple with the challenges of providing energy security, mitigating carbon emissions and disposing of increasing waste volume.

Energy and Natural Resources Financing: A Practical Handbook covers financing across the energy and natural resources spectrum, from upstream oil and gas, pipelines and liquefied natural gas through to refineries, and from conventional power and renewable energy to nuclear power and mining.

Analysis of the law and politics of regulatory competence allocation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.

This book analyses the nexus between land access and the extractive industries in Africa, specifically highlighting the gaps in energy, land and mining laws and the practical solutions needed to settle the increasing number of land disputes in resource-rich areas.

This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies.

International mining disputes represent a significant and growing area of disputes over natural resources, yet the unique risks inherent in the mining industry set them apart, both in the nature of the disputes and the approach taken to resolve them.

This textbook, by three experts in the field, provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law.

This book explores the regulatory challenges posed by the changing landscape of electricity trade to the multilateral trading system.

This volume will be an essential reference for those involved in environmental and energy research.

This text is an ideal starting point to understand the regulatory regimes and policy challenges relevant to Australia''s mining sector.

Argues that international human rights and water laws provide legal bases for the right to water and its extraterritorial application.

Over the last few years, the energy sector in Europe has undergone rapid change.

Shows that economic concerns about jobs, costs, and consumption, rather than climate change, are likely to drive energy transition in developing countries.

Aimed primarily at non-regulatory lawyers this book provides a practical guide to transactions involving utilities and in particular the procurement of goods and services from utilities (rather than by utilities).

World''s foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students.

This is a practical guidebook to current CERCLA litigation, written by an experienced attorney who specializes in this area of law.

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

Explores the local politics of mining in Africa, explaining when communities benefit, and when conflict and repression occur.

This book presents an analytic history of American energy policy, examining policy failures and how the policy process itself leads to failure.

How to avoid catastrophe and lift prosperity and human welfare – a manual for the transition to a low GHG-emissions economy.

This book assesses stability guarantees through the lens of the legitimate expectations principle to offer a new perspective on the stability concept in international energy investments.

Shows readers how we can all help solve the climate crisis by focusing on a few key, achievable actions.

In response to the primacy of English law as the lingua franca governing petroleum transactions, and the increased global demand for new sources of oil and gas, this fully updated new edition analyses the application of English law to contracts for project investment, financing, and development.

This book explains why oil prices rose so spectacularly in the past and examines how they will be suppressed in the future.

Rigorous exploration of the Trump administration''s pro-fossil fuel policy and its lasting impact on public health, the economy, and the environment.

Petroleum royalty agreements are well understood and widely used in several jurisdictions worldwide, and are increasingly being used in many new jurisdictions as a tool for petroleum project development, financing and divestment.

Should Chinese energy investments be excluded from the liberal economic system based on geopolitical assessments only?

Energy justice has emerged over the last decade as a matter of vital concern in energy law, which can be seen in the attention directed to energy poverty, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The first and only comprehensive examination of current and future legal principles designed to govern oil and gas activity in Iraq.

Bringing together leading experts from across the UK and Europe, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of Brexit on the energy sector in the UK and in the European Union and its Member States.

Nuclear Power Plant Development covers the intricacies of developing a nuclear power plant project from a construction and legal standpoint.

Analysis of Chinese environmental law with a focus on the development in statutory regulation, institution building and judicial innovation.

The renewable energy sector is changing rapidly, from funding and legislation through to technology and supply chain.

As global environmental challenges mount, this book offers a policy blueprint for building a safer, sustainable and more inclusive world.

International agreements on allocation of fish stocks do not apply to other States - can they be prevented from upsetting hard-fought bargains?

Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law''s varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.

Presents the first comprehensive reflection on the nature of environmental law scholarship from the perspectives of leading scholars in the field.

This book considers, and offers solutions to, the problems faced by local communities and the environment with respect to global mining.

As global environmental challenges mount, this book offers a policy blueprint for building a safer, sustainable and more inclusive world.

examines principal energy policy decisions and their lingering effects, by recounting the historical context surrounding the interplay of law, markets, and technology.

From the time it was first published in 1998, Shipping and the Environment has been the leading text on international and US law and practice in this field.

Despite a temporary decline in energy usage and emissions resulting from the confinement policies adopted by many states in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is not on track to meet the Paris Agreement climate change goals.