Environmental Protection: Law and Policy
- ISBN-10
- 0316039624
- ISBN-13
- 9780316039628
- Series
- Environmental Protection
- Category
- Environmental law
- Pages
- 960
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Aspen Publishers
- Authors
- Daniel R. Mandelker, Frederick R. Anderson, A. Dan Tarlock
Description
If you're ready to tackle the fundanmental questions surrounding modern environmental law, this comprehensive revision of the classic casebook is your ideal teaching tool. In ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: Law & Policy, Third Edition, the authors closely examine the premise that environmental law has progressed from an anti-pollution, & anti-public works movement to a more established perspective that influences all decisions on the use of natural resources. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: Law & Policy, leads students to a deep understanding of the legal, policy, & regulatory aspects, one step at a time by: Opening the book with two cases that raise basic issues - "What is environmentalism?' & "What are the sources of environmental law/" - that immediately show the relevance of the interdisciplinary material. Advancing the discussion with a blend of foundational cases & the latest court decisions to explore important topics. Offering more accessible notes that present basic information about the purpose of regulatory programs & also provide alternative & supplementary perspectives on the principle cases. Integrating domestic & international environmental law to show how U.S. law has shaped international law & how evolving international norms are influencing U.S. law. Drawing interdisciplinary materials from the three major sources of environmentalism - science, ethics, & economics - convey the underpinnings of environmental law a well as their limits. Asking pointed questions so students can develop their own perspectives on the pros & cons of various policy instruments. Incorporating charts & graphics throughout the book for more engaging discussions & greater accessibility. The authors cover all the traditional course topics, including: the extent to which environmental law builds on the common law of torts the changing nature of regulatory programs, with separate chapters on the Clean Water & the Clean Air Acts They also incorporate new material on: emissions trading global climate change efforts to reduce automobile usage sustainable development biiodiversity protection environmental justice pollution prevention greater individual-consumer responsibility for environmental protection endangered species the tension between biodiversity protection & the protection of private property enforcement issues
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2021-03-02
- 220 pages
- Ebook
- tredition
Similar books
-
Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Protection That Will Work
By Richard B. Stewart, David Schoenbrod, Katrina M. WymanBased on a project the authors led that incorporated the work of more than fifty leading environmental experts, this book is a call to action through public understanding based on a nonpartisan argument for smarter, more flexible regulatory ...
-
Public Policies for Environmental Protection
By Paul R. PortneyOriginally published in 1990, this study tracks the issues, progress and problems in environmental issues in the United States from the 1980’s.
-
Environmental Administrative Decisions: Decisions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
By United States. Environmental Protection AgencyEnvironmental Administrative Decisions: Decisions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
-
Fifty Years at the US Environmental Protection Agency: Progress, Retrenchment, and Opportunities
By John D. Graham, A. James Barnes, David M. KoniskyRobert J. Brulle, “Institutionalizing Delay: Foundation Funding and the Creation of US Climate Change Counter-Movement ... Prior, Post-Broadcast Democracy; Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson, Changing Minds or Changing Channels?
-
Public Policies for Environmental Protection
By Paul R. Portney, Roger C. DowerEnvironmental Protection Agency , Superfund Advisory ( Washington , D.C. , Winter 1989 ) . 35. ... J. Evans , C. Petito , and D. Gravellese , “ Cleaning Up the Gilson Road Hazardous Waste Site , ” Discussion Paper no .
-
Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions
By Sujian Guo, Joel Jay Kassiola, Jijiao ZhangThis volume could nut be more timely with its analysis and comparison of environmental policy in China and the United States.
-
The Morning After Earth Day: Practical Environmental Politics
By Mary GrahamThe Morning after Earth Day explores how policymakers, business executives, and citizen groups are fighting novel political battles and sometimes making peace with surprising compromises.
-
The New Environmental Regulation
By Daniel J. Fiorino, Director Center for Environmental Policy School of Public Affairs Daniel J FiorinoThe new environmental regulation Fiorino describes is based on performance rather than on a narrow definition of compliance and uses such policy instruments as market incentives and performance measurement.
-
The American Experience in Environmental Protection
By Lisa NewtonThis book tracks the growth of environmental awareness and conservation in the United States through the major trends of the 20th century, and establishes a philosophical ground for protection of the environment.
-
Strengthening Science at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Research-Management and Peer-Review Practices
By National Research Council, Commission on Life Sciences, Commission on GeosciencesThe Committee on Research and Peer Review in EPA was charged to evaluate research management and scientific peer-review practices in the agency. The committee published an interim report in 1995 and this final report.