Resilience in Energy, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources Law - Examining Legal Pathways for Sustainability in Times of Disruption

Through a mix of thematic chapters and case studies, this book offers an analytical approach to developing legal responses which will ensure the needs of present and future generations can be met through energy systems, infrastructure development, and natural resources management in times of increasingly frequent and disruptive nature-based events.

List of contents

• Part I - Introduction


• 1: Catherine Banet, Hanri Mostert, LeRoy Paddock, Milton Fernando Montoya, and Iñigo del Guayo: Introduction


• Part II - Defining Resilience in Energy, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources Law


• 2: Nigel Bankes, Lee Godden, and Íñigo del Guayo: The Role of Law in Fostering or Inhibiting Resilient Energy Systems


• 3: Catherine Redgwell: Building Resilience from the Top Down? The Role of International Law and Institutions


• 4: Catherine Banet: Planning for Resilience: Resilience as a Criterion in Energy, Climate, Natural Resources, and Spatial Planning Law


• 5: Martha M. Roggenkamp: Resilient Energy Systems in the European Union: Critical Infrastructures and Cybersecurity Regulation


• 6: Alexandra B. Klass and Isaac Foote: Building Resilience into U.S. Energy Transport Infrastructure


• Part III - State Legal Response to Disruption


• 7: Hao Zhang: Resilience and Energy Law in China in an Era of Energy Decarbonisation


• 8: Lee Godden: Law, Resilience, and Natural Disaster Management in Australia: The 'Bushfire Summer' and Critical Energy Networks


• 9: Damilola Olawuyi: Advancing Resilience to Price Volatility in Oil and Gas Markets: Current Challenges and Ways Forward in the MENA Region


• 10: Milton Fernando Montoya and Daniela Aguilar Abaunza: Reaction from Public Policy and Regulation after COVID-19 Crisis in Latin America: The Cases of Colombia and Peru in Mining and Electrical Industry


• 11: José Juan González Márquez: The New Nationalism of the Mexican Energy Policy in a Turbulent International Context


• 12: Don C. Smith and Donald N. Zillman: Energy Resilience in the United States: Impact of the 2020 Presidential and Congressional Elections


• Part IV - Project Developers Legal Response to Disruption


• 13: Anatole Boute: Force Majeure and the COVID-19 Energy Market Crash: Lessons for the Peak Oil Era


• 14: Alastair R. Lucas: Extreme Natural Event Impacts on the Energy Sector and its Regulation: Canada and North America


• 15: LeRoy Paddock: Creating a Framework that Supports Resilient Renewable Energy Generation


• Part V - Strategic Financing and Economic Responses to Disruption


• 16: Nadia Ahmad: Transnational Energy Law Regimes and Systems Dynamics: Calibrating Finance Mechanisms of the International Renewable Energy Agency and the Energy Charter Treaty


• 17: Hanri Mostert, Chris Adomako-Kwakye, Kangwa-Musole Chisanga, and Meyer Van den Berg: How Strong Can You Stand if You're on Your Knees? Financing Crises in Africa: Implications for the Natural Resource and Energy Sectors


• 18: Hans Jacob Bull: Natural Damage Insurance: An Instrument for Economic Resilience


• 19: Piti Eiamchamroonlarp: Public-Private Partnership in the Reconstruction of the Energy Sector: The Case for EV Buses in Thailand


• Part VI - Managing Disruption and Resilience at Consumption Level: Access to Energy, Demand Response, Equity


• 20: Barry Barton: Building Resilience from the Ground Up: Local Supply and Demand Management with Renewables, Prosumers, Energy Efficiency, Critical Minerals, and the Circular Economy


• 21: Louis de Fontenelle: Increasing the Resilience of the Energy System Through Consumers: Towards Decentralised, Interconnected and Supportive Ecosystems


• Part VII - Conclusion


• 22: Catherine Banet, Hanri Mostert, LeRoy Paddock, Milton Fernando Montoya, and Iñigo del Guayo: Conclusion - Managing Disruption and Reinventing the Future: Resilience as Requirement for Legal Frameworks

About the author

Catherine Banet is an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Energy and Resources Law Department, Norway. She is specialised in energy law, environmental law, state aids law, and EU/EEA law and has a background in private law practice (Norway, France), the European Commission (DG ENV), US diplomatic mission, and academia. Professor Banet is chair of the board of the Norwegian Energy Law Association; a permanent member of the Academic Advisory Group of the International Bar Association, Section on Energy, Environment, Resource and Infrastructure Law; an Academic Fellow at the Center on Regulation in Europe (CERRE); and an academic co-director of the LL.M programme North Sea Energy Law Partnership (NSELP).

Hanri Mostert's expertise fields are land and mineral law and property law. She has been a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Public and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, and later at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau, as a Humboldt fellow. She wrote a monograph on Mineral Law that was cited with approval by the Supreme Court of Appeal and relied on by the South African Constitutional Court. As a visiting professor at the University of Groningen, she became a co-founder of the Rethinking Expropriation Expert Group. In her current role as SARChI Research Chair for Mineral Law in Africa, she is creating a book series dealing with the mineral laws of Africa, and building a network of African mineral law specialists. She is also a steering committee member of the IBA's Academic Advisory Group for the Section on Energy, Environment, Resource, and Infrastructure Law.

LeRoy Paddock is a Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in Environmental Law at The George Washington University Law School. He served for 12 years as Associate Dean for the Environmental Law Studies at The George Washington University Law School. LeRoy previously was Director of Environmental Law Programs at Pace University's Haub School of Law. He is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in a wide range of areas including energy, environmental governance, environmental enforcement, and natural resources protection. Prior to his academic career, he has authored five book chapters for AAG books. LeRoy served for 20 years as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Minnesota where he was Director of Environmental Policy for the Attorney General for 13 years and Manager of the Office's Agriculture and Natural Resources Division.

Milton Fernando Montoya has undertaken postdoctoral studies at the University of Dundee (UK), Ph.D. at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Master in Energy Law at the Instituto Superior de la Energía (Spain), after graduating at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He is Research Director at the Institute of Mining and Energy Law at Universidad Externado de Colombia and Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law, and Policy, University of Dundee. Professor Montoya is a Member of the Academic Advisory Group, Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) of the International Bar Association (IBA) and a Member of the board at the Colombian Mining and Petroleum Bar Association. He is founding partner at Estudio Jurídico Montoya & Asociados.

Iñigo del Guayo is Professor in Administrative Law at the University of Almería. LLM and Ph.D. (University of Navarre). He has researched and published widely in the area of Energy Law, within a broader interest in Public Economic Law and Regulation. He is the editor and a co-author of the three editions of the book Energy Law in Europe: National, European Union and International Law and Regulation (Oxford University Press, 2001, 2007 and 2016) and Chair of the Academic Advisory Group (AAG) of the Section on Energy, Environment, Resources, and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) of the International Bar Association (IBA). Professor del Guayo is also Director of the Master on Energy Law, of the Spanish Energy Club; vice-president of the Spanish Energy Law Association (AEDEN); and a member of the scientific committee of the European Federation of Energy Law Associations (EFELA).

Summary

Through a mix of thematic chapters and case studies, this book offers an analytical approach to developing legal responses which will ensure the needs of present and future generations can be met through energy systems, infrastructure development, and natural resources management in times of increasingly frequent and disruptive nature-based events.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine (Associate Professor Banet
• Assisted by: Catherine Banet (Editor), Iñigo del Guayo (Editor), Milton Fernando Montoya (Editor), Hanri Mostert (Editor), Mostert Hanri (Editor), LeRoy Paddock (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780192864574
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286457-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, LAW / International, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Natural Resources, Environmental law, Environment law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Energy & natural resources law, Energy and natural resources law