Edited by John C. Dernbach, Distinguished Professor of Law, Widener University Commonwealth Law School and James R. May, Richard S. Righter Distinguished Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law, USA and President and Founder, Dignity Rights Advocates

• Contents: IntroductionJames R. May and John C. Dernbach1. 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 ImpactsPam Ko and Patricia Salkin 3. Requiring Full Cost Accounting for Environmental and Social ImpactsJohn H. Quigley PART II COMMUNITY4. Sustainable Housing in Rural Communities Affected by Shale Gas DevelopmentJonathan Williamson and Bonita Kolb5. Sustainability and Community Responses to Local ImpactsDiana Stares, James McElfish and Jack Ubinger, Jr. PART III PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, PUBLIC INFORMATION AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE6. Public Participation and Sustainability: How Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Program Thwarts Sustainable OutcomesKenneth T. Kristl7. Sustainability and Stakeholder Participation: Shale Gas Extraction in the United KingdomJill Morgan8. Relevance of Transparency to Sustainability and to Pennsylvania's Shale Gas LegislationBernard D. Goldstein IV GOVERNANCE9. Regulating Shale Gas Production for Sustainability: The Federalism QuestionsDavid B. Spence 10. Sustainable Development and Proposed Shale Gas Extraction in South Africa: Prospects and ChallengesJan Glazewski 11. Sustainable Management of Onshore Recovery of Unconventional 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

‘Dernbach and May have brought together a marvelous collection of essays that join two inseparable issues: shale gas and sustainability. Each of the 12 articles, written by important authors, together with an introduction and conclusion from Dernbach and May, offers insightful recommendations on how to explore shale gas around the globe in a sustainable way.’