The rapid growth of shale gas development has led to an intense and polarizing debate about the merit of shale gas. At the same time, and essentially independent of shale gas development, countries around the world concluded at the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development that the transition to sustainability must be accelerated. This book asks and suggests answers to a question that has not been systematically analyzed: what laws and policies are needed to ensure that shale gas development helps accelerate the transition to sustainability?
Contents: IntroductionJames R. May and John C. Dernbach 1. Framing the Sustainability QuestionsJohn C. Dernbach PART I PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT2. Sustainable Drilling through Health Impact Assessment: Understanding and Planning for Public Health ImpactsPatricia Salkin and Pam Ko 3. Requiring Full Cost Accounting for Environmental and Social ImpactsJohn Quigley PART II COMMUNITY4. Sustainable Housing in Rural Communities Affected by Shale Gas DevelopmentJonathan Williamson and Bonita Kolb 5. Sustainability and Community Responses to Local ImpactsDiana Stares, James McElfish and Jack Ubinger PART III PUBLIC PARTICIPATION6. Public Participation and Sustainability: How Pennsylvania's Shale Gas Program Thwarts Sustainable OutcomesKenneth Kristl 7. Sustainability and Stakeholder Participation: Shale Gas Extraction in the United KingdomJill Morgan 8. Relevance of Transparency to Sustainability and to Pennsylvania's Shale Gas LegislationBernard Goldstein IV GOVERNANCE9. Regulating Shale Gas Production for Sustainability: The Federalism QuestionsDavid Spence 10. Sustainable Development and Proposed Shale Gas Extraction in South Africa: Prospects and ChallengesJan Glazewski 11. Sustainable Management of On-Shore Recovery of Unconventional Oil and Gas in New ZealandTrevor Daya-Winterbottom PART V ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE12. The Sustainability Imperative of the Surprisingly Big Energy Efficiency ResourceJohn A. ("Skip") Laitner 13. Is Shale Gas Part of a Sustainable Solution to Climate Change? A Factual and Ethical AnalysisDonald A. Brown PART VI LOOKING FORWARD14. Making Shale Gas Production More SustainableJohn C. Dernbach and James R. MayIndex
