Natural Resources Policy and Law

by MacDonnell, Lawrence J.; Bates, Sarah F.

• ISBN13: 9781559632454
• ISBN10: 1559632453
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Island Pr

Summary

While the value of our natural resources has traditionally been viewed in narrow economic terms, in recent years we have begun to appreciate the inherent worth of our land, air, and water - a worth that is entirely unrelated to economic growth and development. The evolution of law and policy regarding natural resource and environmental issues over the past century reflects these ongoing changes in attitude.
Natural Resources Policy and Law explores past, present, and future directions in natural resource and environmental law and policy, with a special emphasis on new laws and important legal cases of the past decade and their implications for the future. Its ten chapters, each written by a leading expert in the field, consider both specific concerns and broad themes, including topics such as history and evolution of natural resources law and policy; laws governing mining and minerals, oil and gas, and public lands; the relationship between environmentalism and environmental law; and future directions of the field.

Author Biography

Lawrence J. MacDonnell is director of the Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado School of Law.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Rethinking Resources: Reflections on a New Generation of Natural Resources Law and Policy	p. 3
Natural Resources Law: An Historical Perspective	p. 21
Trends in Public Land Law (A Title the Inaccuracy of Which Should Become Manifest)	p. 49
Mineral Law in the United States: A Study in Legal Change	p. 66
Oil and Gas Law at the End of Its Great Era	p. 94
Water Resources: A Wider World	p. 124
Bringing an Ecological Perspective to Natural Resources Law: Fulfilling the Promise of the Public Trust	p. 148
Environmental Law, But Not Environmental Protection	p. 162
Shifting Paradigms of Tort and Property in the Transformation of Natural Resources Law	p. 193
A View Toward the Future: Lessons from Tahoe and the Truckee	p. 216
About the Contributors	p. 232
Index	p. 235
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