Environment, Transport & Planning Law

Roughly every five years, Congress debates legislation governing federal farm and food policy. The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (also...

This work debates and investigates the cross-compliance system - whereby farmers comply with certain standards relating to the environment, food sa...

The federal crop insurance program began in 1938 when Congress authorized the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. The current program, which is adm...

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) directs the EPA to restrict the use of pesticides as necessary to prevent unreasona...

The Essential Guide to the Use of Land and Buildings under the Planning Acts is the definitive handbook explaining the legal rules governing the us...

Coined barely two decades ago, the Anthropocene has become one of the most influential and controversial terms in environmental policy. Yet it rema...

Given the potential disruption of climate change, understanding energy issues and technologies is more important than ever if societies are to make...

This Encyclopedia offers a definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important new area of food and agricultural et...

Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures are the laws, rules, standards, and procedures that governments employ to protect humans, animals, and pl...