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Compendium of Sustainable Energy Laws
Author(s): Richard L. Ottinger (Editor), Nicholas Robinson (Editor), Victor Tafur (Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 26 May 2005
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 608 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521845262
- ISBN-13: 9780521845267
Book Description
This volume is a companion to The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development. Here the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law assembles a volume of legal instruments which can be recognized as constituting the core of the law of energy for sustainable development. It will be an essential reference for all those involved in environmental and energy research.
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Book Description
This volume will be an essential reference for those involved in environmental and energy research.
About the Author
Richard L. Ottinger is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York, where he taught environmental law and was Dean from 1994-1999. He is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and Chair of its Climate and Energy Working Group. He served for 16 years in the U.S. Congress, chairing the House Subcommittee on Energy, Conservation and Power. Nicholas Robinson has developed environmental law since 1969 when he was named to the Legal Advisory Committee of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality. He has practised environmental law in law firms, for municipalities and as former general counsel of N.Y.S. Department of Environmental Conservation. He drafted New York’s wetlands and wild bird laws and was inaugurated as the first chairman of the statutory Freshwater Wetlands Appeals Board. Victor Tafur is a staff attorney for the Pace Energy Project. He was deputy director of operations for the Presidency of Columbia and a legal counsel and environmental advisor on energy projects in Columbia.
