Regulating energy and natural resources
By: edited by Barry Barton ... [et al.].
Contributors: Barton, Barry, 1953-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780199299874
Subjects: Energy industries -- Law and legislation.; Power resources -- Law and legislation.; Natural resources -- Law and legislation.
Description: Democratization, globalization, and environmental awareness have had a profound impact on the regulation of industry in the energy and natural resources sector. This book analyses the changes in character of the way this industry is regulated, and seeks to make connections with theoretical perspectives on regulation as a part of the legal system.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The theoretical context of regulation / Barry Barton; title: Alternative regulation and governance reform in resource-rich developing countries of Africa / Yinka O. Omorogbe; title: Sustainable energy development in Latin America and donor driven reform : what will the World Bank do? / Lila K. Barrera-Hernández; title: International soft law and globalization / Catherine Redgwell; title: Contemporary United States energy regulation / John Gulliver and Donald N. Zillman; title: Self-regulation, state regulation, and co-regulation in energy in New Zealand / Barry Barton; title: The political economy of regulation : developments in British energy regulation under labour / Aileen McHarg; title: System operation : from self-regulation to public regulation / Ulf Hammer; title: A new role for the state-energy regulatory reform in Denmark / Anita Rønne; title: Conventional regulation renascent but changing alternatives to regulation : the German experience / Gunther Kühne; title: Re-regulating the electricity and gas sector in the Netherlands : from self-regulation via state regulation to regulation via state ownership / Martha M. Roggenkamp; title: The European electricity and gas regulatory forums / Leigh Hancher and Iñigo Del Guayo; title: State-company relations in offshore oil exploitation : regulatory and contractual analyses / Terence Daintith; title: Efficiency and environmental sustainability : using market mechanisms for water resources regulation in Australia / Lee Godden; title: Voluntary approaches and formal regulation : climate change and Canada's energy sector / Alastair R. Lucas and Veronica Potes; title: Alternatives to conventional regulation in United States environmental law / George (Rock) Pring and Rick A. Feger; title: The use of environmental audits and self-regulation schemes for environmental protection in Mexico / José Juan González Márquez; title: The voluntary initiative of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) in the measures to cope with global warming / Kazuhiro Nakatani; title: Regulation around the world / Donald N. Zillman.