Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "Environmental law"

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    • Regulatory Traffic Jams 
      Ruhl, J. B.; Salzman, James; Song, Kai-Sheng (Wyoming Law Review, 2002)
      Notwithstanding the tremendous amount of attention environmental agencies, policy analysts, and scholars have paid to "regulatory reinvention," it has been pitched primarily as a refinement of the sanction and facilitation ...
    • Revitalizing Dormant Commerce Clause Review for Interstate Coordination 
      Rossi, Jim; Klass, Alexandra B. (Minnesota Law Review, 2015)
      Interstate coordination presents one of the most difficult challenges for American federalism as well as for energy markets and policy. Existing laws vest the approval of large-scale energy infrastructure projects such as ...
    • The Role of Law in Adaptive Governance 
      Ruhl, J.B.; Cosens, Barbara A.; Craig, Robin K.; Hirsch, Shana Lee; Arnold, Craig Anthony; Benson, Melinda H.; DeCaro, Daniel A.; Garmestani, Ahjond S.; Gosnell, Hannah; Schlager, Edella (Ecology and Society, 2017)
      The term “governance” encompasses both governmental and nongovernmental participation in collective choice and action. Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules, and processes within which governmental action takes ...
    • The Seven Degrees of Relevance: Why Should Real-World Environmental Attorneys Care Now About Sustainable Development Policy? 
      Ruhl, J. B. (Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 1998)
      This article explores the evolution of the concept of "sustainable development" through what I suggest are the "seven degrees" of relevance of legal conceptualizations: (1) translation of concept into norm; (2) uncontestability ...
    • Survey Mode Effects on Valuation of Environmental Goods 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Bell, Jason; Huber, Joel (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2011)
      This article evaluates the effect of the choice of survey recruitment mode on the value of water quality in lakes, rivers, and streams. Four different modes are compared:bringing respondents to one central location after ...
    • Sustainable Development: A Five-Dimensional Algorithm for Environmental Law 
      Ruhl, J. B. (Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 1999)
      This article describes sustainable development as involving five dimensions: environment, economy, equity, time, and space (or scale). I suggest that the complexity inherent in balancing these five dimensions demand ...
    • Transforming (perceived) Rigidity in Environmental Law Through Adaptive Governance 
      Ruhl, J.B.; Gosnell, Hannah; Chaffin, Brian C.; Arnold, Craig Anthony; Craig, Robin K.; Benson, Melinda H.; Devenish, Alan (Ecology and Society, 2017)
      The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is often portrayed as a major source of instability and crisis in river basins of the U. S. West, where the needs of listed fish species frequently clash with agriculture dependent on federal ...