Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary Reader

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Robert V. Percival, Dorothy C. Alevizatos
Temple University Press, 1997 - 439 pages
Law and the Environment: A Multi-disciplinary Reader brings together for the first time some of the most important original work on environmental policy by scientists, ecologists, philosophers, historians, economists, and legal scholars. Each of the book's four parts provides a different focus on the nature and scope of environmental problems and attempts to use public policy to address these concerns. Part I examines how ecology, economics, and ethics analyze environmental problems and why they support collective action to respond to them. Part II examines the history and present state of environmental law, from early attempts to engage the government to the current debate over the effectiveness of environmental policy. Part III explores the process by which environmental law gets translated into regulatory policy. Part IV considers the future of environmental law at a time when international environmental concerns have become a major force in global diplomacy and international trade agreements.In drawing together a wide variety of perspectives on these issues, Robert V. Percival and Dorothy C. Alevizatos offer a comprehensive examination of how society has responded to the difficult challenges posed by environmental problems. The selections provide a rich introduction to the complexities of environmental policy disputes. Author note: Robert V. Percival is Professor of Law, Robert Stanton Scholar and Director of the Environmental Law Program of the University of Maryland School of Law. He is the principal author of Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, and numerous articles on law and the environment. >P>Dorothy C. Alevizatos is an environmental lawyer with a Baltimore law firm. She has an M.S. in conservation biology from the University of Maryland.

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Contents

ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
3
A Sand County Almanac 1949
10
The Diversity of Life 1992
18
The Nonequilibrium Paradigm in Ecology and the Partial
25
ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
33
Ecology and Law in the California
40
The Problem of Social Cost 1960
46
Rose
54
Why the Clean Air Act Works Badly 1981
212
Peter W Huber
228
Clayton P Gillette and James E Krier
236
Bruce A Ackerman and Richard B Stewart
242
Howard A Latin
248
Sidney A Shapiro and Thomas O McGarity
254
Rose
261
Office of Technology Assessment
268

1989
60
The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis 1967
68
Laurence H Tribe
75
Tom Regan
83
J Baird Callicott
91
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
101
Robert W Collin
107
First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit
125
Environmental Law and Regulatory Policy
135
Roderick Nash
150
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz
158
Philip Shabecoff
166
The Federalization
179
Politics and Procedure in Environmental Law 1992
185
Environmental Politics in
192
A STRUCTURAL OVERVIEW
203
Presidents Council on Sustainable Development
275
The Regulatory Process in a Participatory Democracy
282
Scientists Citizens and Public Policy 1981
291
Joseph L
300
THE REGULATORY PROCESS
313
Howard A Latin
329
RISK ASSESSMENT AND REGULATORY PRIORITIES
335
Donald T Hornstein
354
Global Environmental Concerns and the Future
363
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
378
THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY
395
Al Gore
409
Stone
417
Contributors
425
Index
431
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