Comparative Environmental Law and Regulation
Author: Nicholas A. Robinson
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780379012514
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The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation
Author: Michelle C. Pautz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0415808154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation offers a unique perspective about an understudied aspect of environmental policy, by sharing the stories of the front-line regulators that implement policy on a day-to-day basis in the United States.
Environmental Justice
Author: Clifford Rechtschaffen
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594605956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental justice is a significant and dynamic contemporary development in environmental law. Rechtschaffen, Gauna and new coauthor O'Neill provide an accessible compilation of interdisciplinary materials for studying environmental justice, interspersed with extensive notes, questions, and a teacher's manual with practice exercises designed to facilitate classroom discussion. It integrates excerpts from empirical studies, cases, agency decisions, informal agency guidance, law reviews, and other academic literature, as well as community-generated documents. This second edition includes new chapters addressing climate change, international environmental justice, and a capstone case study. It also adds expanded coverage of risk and the public health, empirical environmental justice research, and environmental justice for American Indian peoples.
Regulating from Nowhere
Author: Douglas A. Kysar
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010-06-22
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0300163304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing insight from a diverse array of sources -- including moral philosophy, political theory, cognitive psychology, ecology, and science and technology studies -- Douglas Kysar offers a new theoretical basis for understanding environmental law and policy. He exposes a critical flaw in the dominant policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis, which asks policymakers to, in essence, "regulate from nowhere." As Kysar shows, such an objectivist stance fails to adequately motivate ethical engagement with the most pressing and challenging aspects of environmental law and policy, which concern how we relate to future generations, foreign nations, and other forms of life. Indeed, world governments struggle to address climate change and other pressing environmental issues in large part because dominant methods of policy analysis obscure the central reasons for acting to ensure environmental sustainability. To compensate for these shortcomings, Kysar first offers a novel defense of the precautionary principle and other commonly misunderstood features of environmental law and policy. He then concludes by advocating a movement toward environmental constitutionalism in which the ability of life to flourish is always regarded as a luxury we "can" afford.
Environmental Regulation and Compulsory Public Disclosure
Author: Shakeb Afsah
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 0415657652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER). Under PROPER, environmental performance of companies is mapped into a five-color grading scale - Gold for excellent, Green for very good, Blue for good, Red for non-compliance, and Black for causing environmental damage. These ratings are then publicly disclosed through a formal press conference and posted on the internet. Not only did this simple rating scheme create a major media buzz and enhanced environmental awareness of the general public, but it also unleashed a wide range of performance incentives that showed how markets with environmental information could function in a developing country setting. The authors provide a multidisciplinary analysis of how the PROPER program harnessed the power of public disclosure to abate the problem of industrial pollution. They describe how the program has successfully improved the average environmental compliance rate from close to thrity per cent in 1995 to as high as seventy per cent in 2011. This improvement was driven primarily by information disclosure, which avoided expensive and unpredictable legal enforcement through the court system of Indonesia. The combination of institutional history and detailed economic and analyses sheds light on the role of policy entrepreneurs who laid the foundation for disclosure and transparency, despite the constraints of the Suharto regime. The PROPER program is now internationally recognized and continues to serve as a model for many developing countries.
Environmental Regulation of Real Property
Author: Nicholas A. Robinson
Publisher: Law Journal Press
Published: 2024-04-28
Total Pages: 1386
ISBN-13: 9781588520166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book not only offers in-depth analysis of federal environmental statutes having a bearing on land use, but also looks closely at rules imposed by state and local governments.
Environmental Regulation and Impact Assessment
Author: Leonard Ortolano
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1997-03-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780471310044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book integrates the closely related processes of environmental impact assessment and traditional regulatory activities for managing air and water pollution and hazardous waste. It emphasizes methods of analysis along with the process of environmental planning and management. This demonstrates all of the analytic and qualitative techniques needed for effective planning and managing.
The ABCs of Environmental Regulation
Author: Albert I. Telsey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-10-30
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1636710166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSimplify the enormous array of U.S. environmental regulations. This popular handbook simplifies the complex world of environmental law and regulations so you can quickly see which ones impact your job, project, or course of study. This quick guide provides: Easy to read research on a huge amount of environmental laws and regulations that will cut down your research time History and summary of major U.S. laws and regulations Definitions of acronyms This book simplifies numerous federal environmental regulations, including pollution prevention, spills and notifications, dumping, hazardous waste, storage tanks, workplace safety, nuclear energy, marine mammal protection, forests, soil/water conservation, ecosystems, wetlands, federal lands management, and wilderness protection. This completely updated edition contains a new appendix on federal environmental regulations by act.
Environmental Regulation
Author: John F. McEldowney
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780857938206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing an original introduction by the editors, this important collection of essays explores the main issues surrounding the regulation of the environment. The expert contributors illustrate that regulating the environment in the UK is conceptually complex, involves a diverse range of institutions, techniques and methodologies and crosses geographical and national boundaries. In the USA it is more formalised, juridical, adversarial and formally dependent upon legal rules. The articles highlight the fact that despite differences in the UK and the USA's regulatory styles, environmental regulation today has much in common with both traditions.
The New Environmental Regulation
Author: Daniel J. Fiorino
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0262062569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, 2007 Louis Brownlow Award presented by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and 2006 Best Book in Environmental Management and Policy, American Society for Public Administration. Environmental regulation in the United States has succeeded, to a certain extent, in solving the problems it was designed to address; air, water, and land, are indisputably cleaner and in better condition than they would be without the environmental controls put in place since 1970. But Daniel Fiorino argues in The New Environmental Regulationthat—given recent environmental, economic, and social changes—it is time for a new, more effective model of environmental problem solving. Fiorino provides a comprehensive but concise overview of U.S. environmental regulation—its history, its rationale, and its application—and offers recommendations for a more collaborative, flexible, and performance-based alternative. Traditional environmental regulation was based on the increasingly outdated assumption that environmental protection and business are irreversibly at odds. The 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. It takes into consideration differences in the willingness and capabilities of different firms to meet their environmental obligations, and it encourages innovation by allowing regulated industries, especially the better performers, more flexibility in how they achieve environmental goals. Fiorino points to specific programs—including the 33/50 Program, innovative permitting, and the use of covenants as environmental policy instruments in the Netherlands—that have successfully pioneered these new strategies. By bringing together such a wide range of research and real world examples, Fiorino has created an invaluable resource for practitioners and scholars and an engaging text for environmental policy courses.
