This casebook provides a comparative look at environmental and natural resource laws and policies governing water, waste, biological diversity (wildlife and habitat), and environmental assessment. With increasing globalization, comparative law has become more relevant in recent years. Global climate change and threats to biodiversity, transboundary pollution, and the emerging field of environmental human rights make comparative environmental law especially compelling. The book focuses on five nations: the United States, Canada, England, New Zealand, and India. The first four are chosen for comparative analysis because of their common English origins, which enables the reader to trace the evolution of law and policy from some of the earliest judicial and administrative materials available, and because of their relatively common cultural roots yet divergent environmental problems and strategies. The first three countries¿the U.S., Canada, and England¿have taken media-specific, and somewhat fragmented, approaches to water, waste, and wildlife issues, while New Zealand has made path-breaking efforts to adopt a more holistic, ecosystem-based approach to pollution prevention and sustainable development. The fifth nation, India, is a country deeply influenced by England but charting its own course as an emerging economic giant, whose growth poses significant implications for biological diversity, climate change, and other environmental concerns. The book is suitable as a text for law classes and seminars as well as graduate courses. It includes several case studies on specific environmental and resource management problems to enable students to take a ¿hands on¿ problem-solving approach to applying law and policy and to compare and contrast outcomes under the laws of various nations.