The essence of a conservation easement as a static perpetual restriction is coming to a head with the understanding that the world is a changing place. This demonstration is nowhere more dramatic than in the context of global climate change. In response to this conflict, users of conservation...

After several decades of improvement, water quality in the United States is getting worse, and the problem is primarily caused by run-off from non-point sources, such as farms and urban development. These non-point sources have never had regulatory mandates in the Clean Water Act, and have...

Facilitating legislation is required for citizens to initiate local referendums to adopt urban property rights that provide sustainable affordable housing and infrastructure. New laws and regulations are required so official currencies do not: (a) create inefficiencies and climate change from...

This working paper reviews the research into a market mechanism for carbon farming and forestry. The review locates the empirical studies within a debate about the perspective that socio-legal researchers should adopt. Within the frame of regulatory studies, it is possible for researchers to...

In this time of rapid climate change and gaping inequality, we face urgent questions about the ability of current property systems to sustain us into the future. But how does property-system change happen? Land reform is difficult to imagine, much less implement, within a physical landscape...

The paper discusses, form international law perspective the status of the Arab Bedouins in the Negev Desert in the Southern part of Israel. The discussion looks at the principle of Equality and non discrimination, the status of internally-displaced persons, and indigenous people. The last part...

Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...

Relationships between domestic wastewater pollutant discharges per capita (PDCs) and economic development indicators were discussed in this paper. Chronological relationships of PDCs (CODMn, TN and TP) with income indicators in the drainage area of Lakes Shinji and Nakaumi in 1955-93 showed...

This paper addresses the following matters: (1) how deskilled factory production came to China and why it will be relied on by the West to transition to a low carbon economy; (2) the equity concerns of solving global warming through reliance on Chinese-produced carbon-abating technology; (3)...

The objective of this survey of oilseed production from Jatropha and other oilseed-bearing perennials is to contribute by establishing an up-to-date overview based on interviews with producers and industry experts in 2011. This survey of 154 projects yielded a comprehensive database that covers...