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

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    • Adaptive Management in the Courts 
      Ruhl, J. B.; Fischman, Robert, 1962- (Minnesota Law Review, 2010)
      Adaptive management has become the tonic of natural resources policy. With its core idea of "learning while doing," adaptive management has infused the natural resources policy world to the point of ubiquity, surfacing in ...
    • The Case of the Speluncean Polluters: Six Themes of Environmental Law, Policy, and Ethics 
      Ruhl, J. B. (Environmental Law, 1997)
      Almost as soon as it was invented in the early 1970s, the United States' modern environmental law framework has been the subject of calls for reform. Six divergent reform approaches predominate that debate today, and behind ...
    • Climate Change Meets the Law of the Horse 
      Ruhl, J. B.; Salzman, James (Duke Law Journal, 2013)
      The climate change policy debate has only recently turned its full attention to adaptation - how to address the impacts of climate change we have already begun to experience and that will likely increase over time. Legal ...
    • The Co-Evolution of Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice: Cooperation, Then Competition, Then Conflict 
      Ruhl, J. B. (Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 1999)
      This article explores sustainable development and environmental justice as potentially conflicting policy goals. Sustainable development includes equity as one of its five dimensions (in addition to environment, economy, ...
    • Ecosystem Services and Federal Public Lands: Start-up Policy Questions and Research Needs 
      Ruhl, J. B. (Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2010)
      This Essay, based on a presentation at Duke Law School’s 2009 symposium, Next Generation Conservation: The Government's Role in Emerging Ecosystem Service Markets, briefly examines the emerging policy front of ecosystem ...
    • Farmland Stewardship: Can Ecosystems Stand Any More of It? 
      Ruhl, J.B. (Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, 2002)
      Second in my series of articles on farming and environmental policy, this article examines farmland stewardship rhetoric in light of the reality of extensive agricultural exemptions from environmental regulation.
    • Making Nuisance Ecological 
      Ruhl, J. B. (Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2008)
      Common law nuisance doctrine has the reputation of having provided much of the strength and content of environmental law prior to the rise of federal statutory regimes in the 1970s, but since then has taken a back seat to ...
    • The Myth of What is Inevitable Under Ecosystem Management: A Response to Pardy 
      Ruhl, J. B. (Pace Environmental Law Review, 2004)
      This article, second in a five-part dialogue appearing in the Pace ELR, responds to Professor Bruce Pardy's initial evaluation of ecosystem management. I defend ecosystem management, arguing it is not directed at changing ...
    • The Political Economy of Climate Change Winners 
      Ruhl, J. B. (Minnesota Law Review, 2012)
      Many people and businesses in the United States stand to receive market and nonmarket benefits from climate change as it moves forward over the next 100 years. Speaking of climate change benefits is not for polite 'green' ...