The Natural Resource Damage Assessment Deskbook
The Natural Resource Damage Assessment Deskbook

Author: Valerie Ann Lee

Publisher: Environmental Law Institute

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781585760404

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This book provides a comprehensive survey of the law and techniques associated with the law, science, and economics involved in natural resource damage assessment. Written by experts in the field, this new deskbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the subject available. It thoroughly examines the framework for liability and the goals of the federal statutes providing a right of action for natural resource damages. Focus is maintained on the natural resource damage provisions of CERCLA; the Oil Pollution Act; the Clean Water Act; the Marine Protection, Sanctuaries, and Research Act; and the National Park System Resource Protection Act.

Valuing Natural Assets
Valuing Natural Assets

Author: Raymond J. Kopp

Publisher: Resources for the Future

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780915707676

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In this collection of papers, originally prepared for an RFF-sponsored conference in June 1988 and subsequently revised, contributors introduce the legal and economic issues surrounding the public policy problem of natural resource damage assessment. The papers identify the origins of the concept of existence value, discuss the way in which it came to play a role in natural resource damage assessment, explain the history behind the contingent valuation method (which is being used increasingly to measure lost existence values), identify the pros and cons of this technique, review some of the law and federal rulemaking that have evolved from natural resource damage cases, and suggest a research agenda for the future. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Liability for Damage to Public Natural Resources:Standing, Damage and Damage Assessment
Liability for Damage to Public Natural Resources:Standing, Damage and Damage Assessment

Author: Edward Brans

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2001-10-17

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9041117245

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This book focuses on liability for damage to those natural resources that are of interest to the public and are protected by national, European or international law. It provides an overview of the law of the United States and of certain EU Member States on the recovery of damages for injury to natural resources. The international civil liability conventions that cover environmental harm and the recently published European Commission's White Paper on environmental liability are also discussed. The on-going development in various international forums of treaties or protocols dealing with liability for environmental damage are analyzed, as are the principles developed by the UNEP Working Group established in response to the 1990 Gulf War to advise the UNCC on claims for damage to natural resources. The book addresses assessment and valuation issues, the issue of standing in cases of injury to (un)owned natural resources, and the determination of ways to repair, restore and compensate for natural resource injuries and the associated loss of ecological and human services. It also explains why such a difference exists between the US and most European jurisdictions and inter-national liability conventions as to the recovery of damages for injury to natural resources.