Georgia Nuisance Law is the first comprehensive analysis of this growing area of Georgia law. It provides a comprehensive review of Georgia’s nuisance statutes and their common law interpretation. This book is designed for the legal practitioner, guiding the reader from the legal definition of nuisance in Georgia through specific applications of the nuisance laws in recent cases. Georgia Nuisance Law is also a helpful reference tool for those engaged in real estate and land use transactions and others in land use related industries, as it specifically addresses the application of nuisance laws to homeowners associations and the remedies available to aggrieved land owners. It explains local trends in this area of law and explores alternative applications found in other jurisdictions. Georgia Nuisance Law addresses nuisance actions involving government entities, as well as the difference between private and public nuisances, exceptions to nuisance laws, and criminal nuisance laws. Georgia Nuisance Law is a required work for anyone involved in this growing area of Georgia law.

This book contains illuminating and carefully written literature reviews on the central topics of the economics of property rights and institutions. As a bonus, it includes two fascinating chapters on topics off the beaten path slavery and new types of property rights in environmental goods. This book will be indispensible for students and experienced scholars alike. Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School, US This study covers property law and property rights, providing a full summary and comprehensive bibliography of the existing law, together with discussion from an economic perspective on the most important aspects of property law. Leading experts have brought together their knowledge and insight on a full range of issues including comparative property law and the history of property law to create a truly autonomous interdisciplinary resource. This essential reference work will strongly appeal to scholars and students enrolled in academic programmes of law and economics. Academic lawyers involved in research and teaching of private (common) law, practicing lawyers in the field of real estate law, as well as economists involved in researching development economics and transition economics will also find this an invaluable resource.

Issues including climate variability, water scarcity, animal welfare and declining biodiversity have led to increasing demands on farmers to conduct and communicate their farming practices so as to protect their ‘social licence to farm’. Farmers are increasingly expected to demonstrate their social and environmental responsibility as a pre-condition to being allowed to carry out their preferred farming and commercial practices. Current examples include the live animal export trade, battles over protection of aquifers from mining, and contests over rural carbon emissions. In Defending the Social Licence of Farming, authors from Australia, the USA, Europe and Iceland document the diverse issues associated with the 'social licence to farm'. They provide examples of different sectors’ strategies and experiences, and give specific indications of what is involved in coping successfully with this political and legal dimension of farming. As resources become scarce and society’s expectations more diverse and demanding, farming can expect that social licence issues will become both more difficult and more important. The book suggests that the old models of response, largely focused on defensive positions, will often be insufficient to protect the interests of both farmers and the community. This book will provide a useful stimulus for innovation and proactive policies to defend the social licence of the farm sector.