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An Enhanced Water Bank For Colorado, Anne J. Castle, Lawrence J. Macdonnell Jan 2016

An Enhanced Water Bank For Colorado, Anne J. Castle, Lawrence J. Macdonnell

Books, Reports, and Studies

23 pages.

Introduction and rationale -- Background on Colorado water law -- The initial Colorado water bank -- Water banks in other western states -- An enhanced water bank framework for Colorado -- Overcoming municipal preference for permanent acquisition -- Existing authority and new authority needed -- Conclusion and recommendation -- Attachment: Provisions for consideration in water bank operating guidelines.


Real Estate Transactions: Cases And Materials On Land Transfer, Development And Finance, 6th Ed., Gerald Korngold Jan 2015

Real Estate Transactions: Cases And Materials On Land Transfer, Development And Finance, 6th Ed., Gerald Korngold

Books

This casebook covers all the major aspects of real estate transactions, running the gamut from residential transactions to sophisticated commercial development. Highlights of the new edition include:

Revamped mortgage materials to reflect the subprime and mortgage finance crisis, ensuing foreclosure issues, and new regulation; new cases and materials on the core elements of the real estate transaction, including contract conditions, remedies, and the deed; new cases and materials in other sections of the book, including, among others, recording, condominiums, commercial development, and bankruptcy; a new subsection on green buildings; and a revised structure for the book, including consolidation and streamlining …


African Human Rights Organizations: Questions Of Context And Legitimacy, Makau Wa Mutua Jan 2004

African Human Rights Organizations: Questions Of Context And Legitimacy, Makau Wa Mutua

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 13 in Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa, Gaby Oré Aguilar & Felipe Gómez Isa, eds.

The human rights movement is largely the product of the horrors of World War II. The development of its normative content and structure is the direct result of the abominations committed by the Third Reich during that war. Drawing on the Western liberal tradition, the human rights movement arose primarily to control and contain state action against the individual. It is ironic that it was the victors of the war, most of whom held colonies in Africa, …


The Egyptian Legal System Over Twenty Years: Overview And Assesment, Ziad Bahaa-Eldin Jan 1998

The Egyptian Legal System Over Twenty Years: Overview And Assesment, Ziad Bahaa-Eldin

Faculty Book Chapters

The second of two issues, this volume covers aspects of Egyptian society. Contributors include: Donald Cole, Soraya Altorki, Asef Bayat, Eric Denis, Enid Hill, Ziad Bahaeddin, Malak Rouchdy, Linda Herrera, Jim Napoli, Hussein Amin, Mahmoud al-Lozy, Cynthia Nelson, and Shahnaz Rouse.


The Supreme Constitutional Court Of Egypt: Al-Makama Al-Dusturiyya Al-'Ulya, Enid Hill Jan 1998

The Supreme Constitutional Court Of Egypt: Al-Makama Al-Dusturiyya Al-'Ulya, Enid Hill

Faculty Book Chapters

The second of two issues, this volume covers aspects of Egyptian society. Contributors include: Donald Cole, Soraya Altorki, Asef Bayat, Eric Denis, Enid Hill, Ziad Bahaeddin, Malak Rouchdy, Linda Herrera, Jim Napoli, Hussein Amin, Mahmoud al-Lozy, Cynthia Nelson, and Shahnaz Rouse.


Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, And Ethics Of Sustainability, Richard Barringer (Ed.) Jan 1993

Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, And Ethics Of Sustainability, Richard Barringer (Ed.)

Maine Collection

Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, and Ethics of Sustainability

Richard Barringer, editor, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Maine

Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 1993.

The proceedings of a conference presented at Bowdoin College on March 19 and 20, 1993, by the Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine, and by the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Ellen Baum, conference organizer.

Contents; Foreword by Richard Barringer / Welcome by Everett Carson / Global, Canadian, and Maine Perspectives / Sustaining Our Natural and …


Comprehensive Land Use Plan : For Areas Within The Jurisdiction Of The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission, Land Use Regulation Commission Jan 1983

Comprehensive Land Use Plan : For Areas Within The Jurisdiction Of The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission, Land Use Regulation Commission

Maine Collection

Comprehensive Land Use Plan : For Areas Within the Jurisdiction of the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission

Maine Department of Conservation, Land Use Regulation Commission, Augusta, Maine.

Originally Adopted in 1976; Revised in 1983.

Contents: Chapter 1 : The Land Use Regulation Commission / Chapter 2 : Natural Resources / Chapter 3 : Development / Chapter 4 : Goals and Policies of the Commission / Chapter 5 : Issues for the Present and the Future / Appendices


Lands And Forests: Maine And The Nation - A Select Bibliography, Margaret A. Whalen Jan 1980

Lands And Forests: Maine And The Nation - A Select Bibliography, Margaret A. Whalen

Maine Collection

Lands and Forests: Maine and the Nation - A Select Bibliography

by Margaret A. Whalen, Maine State Archives

"Published Under Appropriation 04065.1"

Researchers Guide to Published Sources (1980?)

Contents: General References / New England References / Maine References / Excerpts and Periodical References



The Maine Coast : Issues Considered, Maine Coastal Program Oct 1978

The Maine Coast : Issues Considered, Maine Coastal Program

Maine Collection

The Maine Coast : Issues Considered - A Report to the Governor by his Advisory Committee on Coastal Development and Conservation

Maine Coastal Program, Maine State Planning Office

Augusta, Maine (31 October 1978)

Contents: Introduction / Summary of Committee Recommendations / Fisheries / Port Development / Heavy Industry Siting / Travel and Tourism / Cumulative Impact of Development / Natural Resource Information Transfer


Authorizing The Establishment Of The Knife River Indian Village National Historic Site, United States Congress, Us Senate Nov 1973

Authorizing The Establishment Of The Knife River Indian Village National Historic Site, United States Congress, Us Senate

US Government Documents related to Indigenous Nations

This report from the (US) States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, dated November 29, 1973 was written to accompany US Senate Bill 1468 which sought to establish the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site in North Dakota. This report seeks to amend US Senate Bill 1468 to specify funding limits for acquisition of land and for development of the historic site. US Senate Bill 1468 was passed by the US Senate as amended on November 30, 1973. This legislation was reintroduced as part of an omnibus bill that established six new national historic sites. That legislation, US …