Energy and natural resources law

Minerals and mining are key to the world economy.

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

A novel, interdisciplinary account of the global politics of producing, financing, governing and mobilising energy system transformation.

This 2006 book shows the relevance of energy production and consumption to climate change and sustainable development.

Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law.

The Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) is the most widely used host government contract in the oil and gas industry, and is becoming the leading choice for most countries in their relationship with International Oil Companies (IOCs).

This groundbreaking book collects contributions from many of the world's leading climate and energy law scholars and provides the first major study of national Climate Change Acts.

The first comprehensive analysis of capacity markets, an increasingly important and controversial component of electricity markets.

The controversy aroused by the Supreme Court's decision on offshore mineral rights emphsizes the importance of the public domain in the workings of the Canadian constitution.

Natural resources and their effective management are necessary for securing the realisation of human rights.

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

Oil and natural gas, which today account for over 60% of the world's energy supply, are often produced by offshore platforms.

Minerals and mining are key to the world economy.

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.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how new technologies are facilitating more effective collection and dissemination of taxonomic data.

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

The first and only English-language reference to the laws and regulations of the booming Indonesian mining sector As the growing Indonesian mining industry attracts new investment from foreign mining companies, those companies are faced with the daunting challenge of unraveling the hugely confusing and complex plethora of local laws and regulations that govern the industry.

The first single-authored account of the international law of energy as a whole, written by a leading authority.

Scientists have long been searching for a unified field theory--one answer to all of the questions about the physical universe.

A detailed overview of the law-and-economics methodology developed and employed by environmental lawyers and policymakers.

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

Legal frameworks to ''reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation'' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on protections and benefits for indigenous peoples and forest communities.

The impact of the new ''Great Game'' on Central Asia''s energy reforms illustrates the interconnection between law, geopolitics and institutions.

Disputes in the energy and natural resources sector are at the heart of international arbitration.

This updated book provides practical guidance on avoiding and resolving disputes in the construction of offshore units and vessels, including FPSOs, drilling units, OSVs, FLNG, FSRU and fixed platforms.

A critical overview of European Union energy law and policy, this book takes a law-in-context approach as it examines the development of EU energy law from the 1950s to the present day.

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

The book analyses how State aid law and the law of the free movement of goods apply to renewable energy support schemes, how they have impacted on the design and implementation of national support schemes, and how they have been instrumentalised to affect national renewable energy support policies.

Overview of the ''new extractivist paradigm'' which could bring viable futures for Arctic communities, including renewable energies, tourism, and science.

A synthesis of the relevant agreements, customary norms and ongoing discussions on the international law on climate change.

Examines critical links between local content requirements and the application of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets.

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

Marine mammal conservation remains a hot-button international environmental issue, but progress towards addressing key conservation and management issues within existing governance structures-most notably the International Whaling Commission-has stalled.

This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the various internal and external measures undertaken by the European Union to guarantee security of oil and gas supply.

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.

This book stands on its head the most venerated tradition in international law and discusses the challenges of resource scarcity, sovereignty, and territorial temptation.

The Routledge Handbook of Consumer Protection and Behaviour in Energy Markets provides a comprehensive study of consumer protection and consumer behaviour in selected jurisdictions worldwide.

Explains how energy industry firms have hedged their bets by using paradoxical strategies to cope with the uncertainty around energy prices and climate change.

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.

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

A comprehensive analysis of environmental externality, combining theory, algorithms, and applications to provide a unified and balanced framework.

As certain oil and gas provinces near the end of their production lives, companies, governments and other stakeholders are turning their attention to decommissioning.

A synthesis of the relevant agreements, customary norms and ongoing discussions on the international law on climate change.

Examines critical links between local content requirements and the application of sustainable development treaties in global energy markets.

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 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.