Natural Resources Law: A Place-Based Book of Problems and Cases, Sixth Edition

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including academic lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Natural Resources Law, Sixth Edition provides a place-based approach for students to explore the expansive body of statutes, rules, customs, institutions, and processes governing the ways individuals, corporations, and local, state, tribal, and national governments interact with water, air, land, wildlife, minerals, parks, forests, and other natural resources. Chapters open with a map marking the geographic location of each case, and all judicial opinions begin with a context-setting, place-based narrative and photograph. This teachable book groups readings into discrete, assignment-sized chunks and accommodates a wide range of pedagogical approaches. For those who want to focus on cross-cutting themes and policy, each chapter includes one or more discussion problems that apply the chapter’s cases to a contemporary policy issue or dispute. For those who want to get into the nitty-gritty details of the law, each chapter presents statutory and regulatory excerpts in standalone, easily referenced sections, rather than scattered throughout the text.   New to the Sixth Edition: Expanded treatment of climate change, tribal rights, and contemporary resource conflicts throughout the book. Discussion of the significant shifts in federal energy policy on public lands in light of the transition from the Biden administration to the Trump administration. A substantially revised Chapter 1 introducing the field through recurring themes such as climate change, environmental justice, and governance fragmentation. Significant revisions to Chapter 3 addressing the demise of Chevron and the rescission of the CEQ NEPA regulations. Older materials on NEPA reform have been replaced with a newer discussion of proposals for permitting reform and reducing environmental review for projects on public lands, particularly renewable energy projects. Removal of Chapters 15 (Wetlands and Streams) and 16 (Natural Resources and Fifth Amendment Takings), leaving those topics to other law school courses on environmental law, water law, and property law. New principal cases including Held v. State; Environmental Defense Center v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management; Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County; Bennet v. Spear; Kleissler v. United States; Sierra Club v. Espy (II); Sierra Club v. Glickman; Sierra Club v. Marita; Healthy Gulf v. U.S. Department of Interior; Nantucket Residents Against Turbines v. U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management; Stronghold v. United States; and Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida v. United States. Updated/new discussion problems, including: Invasive species and the question of what “natural” means in natural resources law (Chapter 1) Applying the materials on Section 4 (listing) of the ESA to two case studies (wolverines and sage-grouse) (Chapter 13) Addition of discussion problems to Chapter 13 (Wildlife and the Endangered Species Act) to guide students through the statutory and regulatory framework and connect with real world problems Climate change and water resources (Chapter 14) Professors and students will benefit from: Place-based approach—conveys passion and drama fueling resource disputes and policy and brings to life judicial analysis and statutory interpretation Broad national coverage—includes both traditional public lands issues and broader natural resource topics of interest to both eastern and western students Factually rich discussion problems in each chapter—based on a contemporary dispute or policy issue