What is the one thing that no-one can do without? Water. Where water crosses boundaries – be they economic, legal, political or cultural – the stage is set for disputes between different users trying to safeguard access to a vital resource, while protecting the natural environment. Without strategies to anticipate, address, and mediate between competing … >>

Environmental Oceanography is a scientifically-based, multidisciplinary text that uses critical thinking and case studies to teach principles of oceanography and focuses on the importance of, and threats to, the marine environment. The text uses an innovative approach to teaching environmental oceanography, consisting of marine environmental issues presented as self-contained analytical exercises, with information and questions … >>

Barbara H. Rosenwein reassesses the significance of property in tenth- and eleventh-century Europe. She explores in rich detail the question of monastic donations, illuminating the human motives, needs, and practices behind gifts of land and churches to the French monastery of Cluny during the 140 years that followed its founding.

The politics of building dams and levees and other structures are just part of the policies determining how American rivers are managed or mismanaged. America’s well-being depends upon the health of those rivers and important decisions go beyond just dam-building or dam removal. American rivers are suffering from poor water quality, altered flows, and diminished … >>

An on-the-go resource for those in their 20s and 30s who need to balance the competing financial demands of first-time home ownership. People bought nearly 6.4 million homes in the U.S. last year and many of them were young first-time buyers who are now find themselves wondering, ìWhatís next?î And with the sub-prime crisis quickly … >>

Throughout history the control of land has been the basis of power. Cadastral maps, records of property ownership, played an important role in the rise of modern Europe as tools for the consolidation and extension of land-based national power. The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State, illustrated with 126 maps, traces the development … >>

A unique mix of wit, wisdom, and practice tips on real estate law from a veteran lawyer, Real Estate Lore is filled with invaluable, practice-focused advice on a range of subjects, including mortgages, landlord-tenant law, buying and selling real estate, brokerage law, and land use and title issues. As the author explains, his book raises … >>

Written by an expert with 20 years of experience in commercial site evaluation, The Site Book is a practical book that takes a logical and process-oriented approach to site evaluation. Built around dozens of real-life examples of sites that work, sites that don’t – and all the reasons why – this book explores the dynamic … >>