The Natural Resource Damage Assessment Deskbook: A Legal and Technical Analysis
- Publisher:
- Environmental Law Institute
- Publication date:
- 2002-04-05
- Authors:
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Valerie Ann Lee
Dr. Pamela J. Bridgen - ISBN:
- 9781585760404
Description:
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.
Index
- Abreviations
- Index
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Natural resource damage assessment concepts and players
- Historical context for natural resource damage assessment
- Character of the event and coverage of federal authorities
- The comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act
- The oil pollution act
- Appendices
- The marine protection, research, and sanctuaries act
- The national park system resources protection act
- Federal trustees
- Natural resource damage assessment elements and regulations
- Techniques in injury assessment
- Coordination of comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act remedial actions and natural resource injury determinations
- Tools and tecniques in assigning damage
- Restoration planning and implementation
- Cooperative assessments
- The clean water act
- Preliminary sections