Law Environmental / Energy Law

Shale Gas and the Future of Energy: Law and Policy for Sustainability

Edited by John C Dernbach · James R. May
Edward Elgar Publishing February 2016

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ISBN-13
9781783476145
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
February 2016
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The rapid growth of shale gas development has led to an intense and polarizing debate about the merit of shale gas.

At the same time, and essentially independent of shale gas development, countries around the world concluded at the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development that the transition to sustainability must be accelerated.

This book asks and suggests answers to a question that has not been systematically analyzed: what laws and policies are needed to ensure that shale gas development helps accelerate the transition to sustainability?

Table of Contents

Introduction James R. May and John C. Dernbach
1. Framing the Sustainability Questions John C. Dernbach
PART I PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
2. Sustainable Drilling through Health Impact Assessment: Understanding and Planning for Public Health ImpactsPatricia Salkin and Pam Ko
3. Requiring Full Cost Accounting for Environmental and Social ImpactsJohn Quigley
PART II COMMUNITY
4. Sustainable Housing in Rural Communities Affected by Shale Gas DevelopmentJonathan Williamson and Bonita Kolb
5. Sustainability and Community Responses to Local ImpactsDiana Stares, James McElfish and Jack Ubinger
PART III PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
6. Public Participation and Sustainability: How Pennsylvania's Shale Gas Program Thwarts Sustainable OutcomesKenneth Kristl
7. Sustainability and Stakeholder Participation: Shale Gas Extraction in the United KingdomJill Morgan
8. Relevance of Transparency to Sustainability and to Pennsylvania's Shale Gas LegislationBernard Goldstein
PART IV GOVERNANCE
9. Regulating Shale Gas Production for Sustainability: The Federalism QuestionsDavid Spence
10. Sustainable Development and Proposed Shale Gas Extraction in South Africa: Prospects and ChallengesJan Glazewski
11. Sustainable Management of On-Shore Recovery of Unconventional Oil and Gas in New Zealand Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
PART V ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
12. The Sustainability Imperative of the Surprisingly Big Energy Efficiency ResourceJohn A. ("Skip") Laitner
13. Is Shale Gas Part of a Sustainable Solution to Climate Change? A Factual and Ethical Analysis Donald A. Brown
PART VI LOOKING FORWARD
14. Making Shale Gas Production More Sustainable John C. Dernbach and James R. May
Index

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