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Providing an excellent and current resource for understanding the complexities of ocean and coastal law and policy, this updated edition of an ABA bestseller brings together the expertise of the country's leading scholars and practitioners in the field of ocean and coastal law. Covering the full array of issues involved -- from maritime jurisdiction and boundaries to water quality protection to fisheries management and marine mammal protection to offshore energy development and climate change -- each chapter addresses the current state of the law for the topic, followed by analysis of the emerging and unresolved issues. The book's final chapters address the principles, legal authorities, and planning for a transition toward an ecosystem-based management approach to U.S. coastal and ocean areas. Among the topics covered in this updated edition of Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy are: Maritime jurisdiction and boundaries The Public Trust Doctrine The role of the states Regulation of coastal wetlands and other U.S. waters Managing coastal development National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Coastal water quality protection Ocean dumping and marine pollution Fisheries management and trade in fish and fisheries products The 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea Offshore energy development

From evaluating policy delivery on wind farms in Texas in the US, to developing nuclear power in the Middle East, this book presents fresh thinking on key concepts and ideas on energy law and policy delivery. Experts in energy from across the European Union and the United States contribute short chapters each on how best to achieve energy policy objectives. The contributors write from a range of perspectives, including the sciences, law, politics, economics and engineering.

This essay makes some observations about the phenomenon of the emergence of a
fundamentally new and different business and operational infrastructure model for providing electricity around the world (for example, in the United States, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Denmark) that potentially may have profound significance for the future of the
global economy. The new emerging model is termed Distributed Generation (DG). The DG model has been characterized variously as creating a "death spiral" for investor owned electric utilities', causing a "paradigm shift" in the production and use of electricity ,
potentially creating an "energy revolution, and a "new era in electricity." In addition,
legislation has recently been introduced in the U.S. House and Senate to take steps toward integrating clean energy DG into the U.S. electricity grid. New distributed generation capacity is projected to surpass new central station generation capacity by 2018 in the United States and other countries around the world.