Law and the environment : a multidisciplinary reader

Preface Introduction Part I: Perspectives on Environmental Problems 1. ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES The Earth as Modified by Human Action (1877) - George Perkins Marsh * A Sand County Almanac (1949) - Aldo Leopold * Fundamentals of Ecology (1959) - Eugene P. Odum * The Diversity of Life (1992) - Edward O. Wilson * The Nonequilibrium Paradigm in Ecology and the Partial Unraveling of Environmental Law (1994) - A. Dan Tarlock 2. ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery (1954) - H. Scott Gordon * The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980 (1986) - Arthur F. McEvoy * The Problem of Social Cost (1960) - Ronald H. Coase * The Economy of the Earth (1988) - Mark Sagoff * Environmental Faust Succumbs to Temptations of Economic Mephistopheles, or, Value by Any Other Name Is Preference (1989) - Carol M. Rose * The Shadow of the Future: Discount Rates, Later Generations, and the Environment (1993) - Daniel A. Farber and Paul A. Hemmersbaugh 3. ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis (1967) - Lynn White, Jr. * Ways Not to Think about Plastic Trees: New Foundations for Environmental Law (1974) - Laurence H. Tribe * The Case for Animal Rights (1983) - Tom Regan * Review of Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (1985) - J. Baird Callicott * The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects (1986) - Arne Naess 4. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The Threat of Environmental Racism (1993) - Robert D. Bullard * The Poison Poor Children Breathe (1982) - George F. Will * Environmental Equity: A Law and Planning Approach to Environmental Racism (1992) - Robert W. Collin * Locally Undesirable Land Uses in Minority Neighborhoods: Disproportionate Siting or Market Dynamics? (1994) - Vicki Been * Principles of Environmental Justice (1991) - First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit * The Meaning and Promotion of Environmental Justice (1994) - Richard J. Lazarus Part II: Environmental Law and Regulatory Policy 5 . ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution (1974) - Joel Franklin Brenner * Wilderness and the American Mind (1982) - Roderick Nash * A "Gift of God"?: The Public Health Controversy over Leaded Gasoline during the 1920s (1985) - David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz * A Fierce Green Fire (1993) - Philip Shabecoff 6. THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION Federal Regulation in Historical Perspective (1986) - Robert L. Rabin * Toward a Theory of Statutory Evolution: The Federalization of Environmental Law (1985) - E. Donald Elliott, Bruce A. Ackerman, and John C. Millian * Politics and Procedure in Environmental Law (1992) - Daniel A. Farber * Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985 (1987) - Samuel P. Hays * The Lesson of the Owl and the Crows: The Role of Deception in the Evolution of the Environmental Statutes (1989) - William H. Rodgers, Jr. 7 . ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: A STRUCTURAL OVERVIEW Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy (1996) - Robert V. Percival, Alan S. Miller, Christopher H. Schroeder, and James P. Leape * Why the Clean Air Act Works Badly (1981) - William F. Pederson, Jr. * Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy (1996) - Robert V. Percival, Alan S. Miller, Christopher H. Schroeder, and James P. Leape * Rehabilitating Interstate Competition: Rethinking the "Race-to-the-Bottom" Rationale for Federal Environmental Regulation (1992) - Richard L. Revesz * Safety and the Second Best: The Hazards of Public Risk Management in the Courts (1985) - Peter W. Huber * Risk, Courts, and Agencies (1990) - Clayton P. Gillette and James E. Krier 8. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO REGULATION Reforming Environmental Law: The Democratic Case for Market Incentives (1988) - Bruce A. Ackerman and Richard B. Stewart * Ideal Versus Real Regulatory Efficiency: Implementation of Uniform Standards and "Fine-Tuning" Regulatory Reforms (1985) - Howard A. Latin * Not So Paradoxical: The Rationale for Technology-Based Regulation (1991) - Sidney A. Shapiro and Thomas O. McGarity * Rethinking Environmental Controls: Management Strategies for Common Resources (1991) - Carol M. Rose * Environmental Policy Tools: A User's Guide (1995) - Office of Technology Assessment Sustainable America: A New Consensus-Building a New Framework for a New Century (1996) - President's Council on Sustainable Development Part III: The Regulatory Process in a Participatory Democracy 9. WHO SPEAKS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) - Edward Abbey * DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy (1981) - Thomas R. Dunlap * Defending the Environment: A Strategy for Citizen Action (1971) - Joseph L. Sax * Should Trees Have Standing?-Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1972) - Christopher D. Stone 10. THE REGULATORY PROCESS Implementing Federal Environmental Policies: The Limits of Aspirational Commands (1978) - James A. Henderson, Jr., and Richard N. Pearson * The Seven Statutory Wonders of U.S. Environmental Law: Origins and Morphology (1994) - William H. Rodgers, Jr. * Regulatory Failure, Administrative Incentives, and the New Clean Air Act (1991) - Howard A. Latin 11. RISK ASSESSMENT AND REGULATORY PRIORITIES Risk in a Free Society (1984) - William D. Ruckelshaus * The Gospel of Risk Management: Should We Be Converted? (1984) - David Doniger * The Role of the Courts in Risk Management (1986) - Richard B. Stewart * Reclaiming Environmental Law: A Normative Critique of Comparative Risk Analysis (1992) - Donald T. Hornstein Part IV: Global Environmental Concerns and the Future of Environmental Law 12. INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY International Environmental Policy: Emergence and Dimensions (1990) - Lynton Keith Caldwell * Our Common Future (1987) - World Commission on Environment and Development * Declaration of Principles (1992) - United Nations Conference on Environment and Development * Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement (1991) - Gene M. Grossman and Alan B. Krueger * From Adjustment to Sustainable Development: The Obstacle of Free Trade (1992) - Herman Daly * Sustainable America: A New Consensus-International Leadership (1996) - President's Council on Sustainable Development 13. THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY Stopping the Pendulum (1995) - William D. Ruckelshaus * A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism (1995) - Gregg Easterbrook * A Moment of Truth: Correcting the Scientific Errors in Gregg Easterbrook's A Moment on the Earth (1995) - Environmental Defense Fund * Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992) - Al Gore * Toward a New Environmental Paradigm (1993) - Robert W. Hahn * The Gnat Is Older Than Man: Global Environment and the Human Agenda (1993) - Christopher D. Stone Contributors Index