Bibliography of the History of Biology/Bibliographie Zur Geschichte De Biologie: Bibliographie Zur Geschichte Der Biologie

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This timely Reader brings together, for the first time, key writings on the relationship between law and geography. In so doing, it has fostered the creation of an intellectual forum for scholars and students in related disciplines, who have - until now - been working in parallel, rather than in tandem. Although a recent area of study, the intersection between these fields is becoming increasingly important with the recognition that space is socially produced and that it is riddled with power relations. The chapters in this Reader are organized around geographic scale - local, national, global - and each section includes an introductory essay contextualizing the selections and explaining their contribution. The topics covered include public space, local racisms, property and the city, environmental regulation, state formation and decentralization and international-global legalities. A comprehensive introduction reviews the current state of the field. Representing some of the most provocative and interesting approaches to law and geography by an interdisciplinary group of acclaimed contributors, Legal Geographies Reader will serve as an important reference source to this expanding field.

Environmental Policy in the European Union: Actors, Institutions and Processes (Earthscan Reader)

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Environmental Policy in the European Union: Actors, Institutions and Processes (Earthscan Reader)
Andrew Jordan
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ASIN: 1844071588

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Reviews of the first edition:
* "This is an excellent overview... [I]t will act as a great reference work for teachers and higher education students." --British Ecological Society
* "A highly useful reference and resource for all those involved in or studying environmental politics and policy, not just in the EU, but worldwide." --IPC Journal
* Fully revised edition with new sections covering the latest developments in EU environmental policymaking

This second and fully revised edition brings together some of the most influential work on the theory and practice of contemporary EU environmental policy. Comprising five comprehensive parts, it includes in-depth case studies of contemporary policy issues such as climate change, genetically modified organisms, and trans-Atlantic relations; and an assessment of how well the EU is responding to new challenges such as enlargement, environmental policy integration, and sustainability.
The book’s aim is to look forward and ask whether the EU is prepared or even able to respond to the "new" governance challenges posed by the perceived need to use "new" policy instruments and processes to "mainstream" environmental thinking in all EU policy sectors.

Environmental Law for Sustainability: A Reader (Osgoode Readers)

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Environmental Law for Sustainability: A Reader (Osgoode Readers)

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ASIN: 1841135445

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This volume of new essays presents critical new scholarship on law for sustainable development. Its contributors provide international and comparative perspectives on the current state of environmental law and its future directions. Aimed at both students and scholars in law and other social sciences, it goes beyond conventional descriptions of environmental law and policy to a theoretical and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of law in sustainable development. Starting from the premise that ecological sustainability requires environmental law systems to be sensitive to a wide array of institutional, social and economic issues and to emerging forms of environmental governance beyond conventional legal regulation, the book explores: future directions in command regulation; changing forms of public administration; risk assessment and precautionary regulation; ecological justice; public participation in environmental decision-making; indigenous peoples and the environment; industry self-regulation; economic instruments; sustainable finance; the state of international environmental law; and environmental law in developing countries. Contributors include Carolyn Abbot (Manchester), Klaus Bosselmann (Auckland), David Driesen (Syracuse), Steve Dovers (ANU), Jaye Ellis (McGill), Elizabeth Fisher (Oxford), Benjamin Richardson (Osgoode) and Stepan Wood (Osgoode).

Nature's Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas (Northwest Readers)

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Champion of liberty and the environment

Nature's Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas (Northwest Readers)
William O. Douglas
Manufacturer: Oregon State University Press
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ASIN: 0870714821

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As the longest-serving Justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, William O. Douglas was known for writing a host of dissenting opinions. He was also a prolific writer off the bench, a man whose work was as much concerned with nature as with law. This collection brings together writings that represent the wide range of Douglan's interests. It includes selections from his autobiographical and political books, and opinions from landmark cases--all reflecting not only his love of justice but also his roots in the Northwest and his lifelong commitment to the environment. These writings demonstrate that Douglas never shied from controvery--whether over interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment or the choice between flies and bait for trout fishing--and offer abundant inspiration for both environmentalists and all who yearn for a more just society. Whether extolling the joys of the wild or defending the rights of citizens, Douglas shows in this work that he truly was Nature's Justice--and one of a kind.

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Champion of liberty and the environment .......2006-08-05

Few national leaders have shaped present-day America more positively than Justice William O. Douglas. The force of Douglas's ideas has had a profound influence on our world--from the individual liberties that we enjoy to his attitudes about protecting the natural world from human encroachment. At the core of it all is Douglas's idea of the human person. The advantages Americans enjoy over citizens of other nations, particularly totalitarian regimes " . . . are not in material things such as technology and standards of living. They relate to matters of the mind and the spirit . . . Man's moral and spiritual appetite, as well as his political ideals, demanded that he have freedom. Liberty was to be the way of life--inalienable and safe from the intrusions of government."

James O'Fallon's edited selections provide us with an excellent overview of Douglas's vast experience and the life that underlay his philosophy--from his boyhood days growing up in near poverty in the Yakima foothills, through his great Supreme Court decisions (establishing the right of privacy) and dissents. Here we also get a feel of the great men Douglas knew: Brandeis, President Franklin Roosevelt (with whom he played poker and drank martinis regularly), Hugo Black and many others.

In the tradition of John Muir and Aldo Leopold, Douglas is one of our great nature writers with his descriptions of the experiences and characters of the great wild places of our Pacific Northwest. He has a botanist's feel for the detail of a landscape and paints a vivid picture with all the sights, sounds and smells of the wilderness.

Douglas was the partner of presidents, but he also had a great understanding and sympathy for the poor, for persons such as prostitutes who lived in conditions where criminal conduct was prevalent, and hobos with whom he rode in boxcars in his early days. These are outstanding recollections and ideas--Douglas is one of the greatest thinkers of the last Century.

Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation: A Pocket Guide

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Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation: A Pocket Guide
R. Day , and J.A. Reader
Manufacturer: Royal Society of Chemistry
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ASIN: 0854044973

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The laws relating to the environment and health and safety have become so closely interrelated that the previous edition of the "Pocket Guide to Environmental Law" has been completely revised, updated and enlarged to include Health and Safety Law. The resulting "Health, Safety and Environment Legislation: A Pocket Guide" is divided into 17 sections, each of which is subdivided, with the relevant legislation easily identified within the sections. A list of contents and an index are also included. All material is current as of November 2002, and includes recently introduced legislation such as CHIP 3, GMO's (Deliberate Release), Control of Asbestos at Work, COSHH and Control of Lead at Work. This guide will be useful to all employees, but especially so to those employed to advise their colleagues on health, safety and environmental law. It is therefore designed to be a first port-of- call for quick and easy access to reference information, which can readily be carried to meetings or taken out on site.

Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary Reader

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Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary Reader

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Enviromental Policy Law: Problems, Cases, and Readings (University Casebook Series)

ASIN: 1566395240

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Law and the Environment: A Multi-disciplinary Reader brings together for the first time some of the most important original work on environmental policy by scientists, ecologists, philosophers, historians, economists, and legal scholars. Each of the book's four parts provides a different focus on the nature and scope of environmental problems and attempts to use public policy to address these concerns. Part I examines how ecology, economics, and ethics analyze environmental problems and why they support collective action to respond to them. Part II examines the history and present state of environmental law, from early attempts to engage the government to the current debate over the effectiveness of environmental policy. Part III explores the process by which environmental law gets translated into regulatory policy. Part IV considers the future of environmental law at a time when international environmental concerns have become a major force in global diplomacy and international trade agreements.

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Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the environment and in environmental law, trends which have been reflected in academic work. This reader considers a cross-section of socio-legal work on environmental law, tracing its development over the past twenty years. It includes work from a variety of disciplines, theoretical perspectives and from an international scholarship. It aims to give a taste of the breadth and development of socio-legal approaches to one of the most important regulatory regimes in the western industrialised world the regulation of the environment. The readings encompass various legal approaches to environmental protection, alternatives to the law, and both domestic and supra-national issues. They also consider broader themes such as the interaction of law and science and the effects of criminalizing environmental offences, and indicate areas which future research could usefully address.

Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy (Interdisciplinary Readers in Law Series)

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Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy (Interdisciplinary Readers in Law Series)
Richard L. Revesz
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195091523

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This volume in the Interdisciplinary Readers in Law series is a collection of 40 readings by lawyers, economists, environmentalists, and legal scholars, which introduce students to the major theoretical approaches in the field. The selections have been edited to facilitate accessibility, and
each chapter includes an introduction highlighting the most important contributions of the readings. The chapters end with an extensive set of notes and questions, designed both to provide a deeper understanding of the readings as well as to introduce and critique a broader set of perspectives. This
book can be used as a companion volume to the case materials used in a survey course on environmental law, as a textbook for law school seminars on environmental law and policy, and for undergraduate and graduate seminars on environmental policy in a variety of disciplines, including government,
public policy, forestry, and resource management.
This volume is part of the Interdisciplinary Readers in Law series (Roberta Romano, General Editor). Designed as a collection of supplementary texts for law school courses, the series collects important essays from leading lawyers, economists, political scientists, philosophers, historians, and
legal scholars, reflecting the broad range of scholarship that informs contemporary law. Other volumes in the series include Foundations of Corporate Law (Roberta Romano, Editor) Foundations of Administrative Law (Peter Schuck, Editor), Foundations of Contract Law (Richard Craswell and Alan
Schwartz, Editors), Foundations of Tort Law (Saul Levmore, Editor), and Foundations of Employment Discrimination Law (John J. Donohue III, Editor).

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This is the first book to adopt an unconventional approach to the theory of bonding and structure of molecules and solids. It explains the observed trends in this field within the framework of simple models of electronic structure. Emphasis is placed throughout on recent theoretical developments that link structural stability to the local topology or connectivity of the lattice through the moments of the electronic density of states. This modern real-space approach allows an immediate understanding of the origin of the structural trends within the periodic table for the elements and the AB structure map for binary compounds. Final year undergraduates and graduates following a course in quantum mechanics will find this book to be highly valuable. A chapter on basic concepts is included for readers new to the subject.

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Bonding and Structure of Molecules and Solids
D. G. Pettifor
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Chemical bonding and electronic structure of molecules and solids studies by ESCA (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis)

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Chemical bonding and electronic structure of molecules and solids studies by ESCA (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis)
Gunilla Johansson
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Undisputed master of “sensation fiction” and forefather of the modern crime story, Wilkie Collins was also a supreme chronicler of the dark underside of Victorian London. Chilling in the extreme, these three short stories of murder and suspense are outstanding examples of his craft. Setting himself in front of the station fire, a young policeman is little prepared for the account of bloody murder that will be relayed that night. It seems that Mrs. Crosscapel’s lodging house is a place of dark secrets and buried passions—emotions that will soon cloud even his own judgment. As with the other short stories included here, Who Killed Zebedee? is a brilliant and highly original tale of horror and the macabre.

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Murder Most Foul, Volume 1
Barr, Wilkie, Robert Collins
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