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Entrenching Environmentalism
(University of Chicago Law Review, 2010)
This piece for the University of Chicago Law Review Symposium: Reassessing the State and Local Government Toolkit, examines how local governments can use private law mechanisms to entrench policy in ways that circumvent ...
Transforming (perceived) Rigidity in Environmental Law Through Adaptive Governance
(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 ...
Survey Mode Effects on Valuation of Environmental Goods
(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 ...
Environmental Law
(Wayne Law Review, 2016)
The decisions of the Michigan Supreme Court and the Michigan Court of Appeals during the Survey period, May 23, 2007 to July 30, 2008, did not dramatically change the course of environmental law in Michigan, nor did they ...
The Role of Law in Adaptive Governance
(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 ...
Carbon Taxation by Regulation
(Minnesota Law Review, 2017)
This Article argues that, even though a carbon tax remains politically elusive, “carbon taxation by regulation” has begun to flourish as a way of financing carbon reduction. For more than a century, energy rate setting has ...
Regional Habitat Conservation Planning Under the Endangered Species Act
(Southwestern Law Journal, 1991)
This Article does not attempt to resolve all the compelling questions posed by the conflicting policy objectives associated with the ESA. Rather, the Article focuses on an important emerging issue - the concept of a regional ...
Legal and Institutional Foundations of Adaptive Environmental Governance
(Ecology and Society, 2017)
Legal and institutional structures fundamentally shape opportunities for adaptive governance of environmental resources at multiple ecological and societal scales. Properties of adaptive governance are widely studied. ...
"Maladaptive" Federalism: The Structural Barriers to Coordination of State Sustainability Initiatives
(Case Western Law Review, 2014)
While the federal government has been slow to address problems such as climate change, many states have adopted innovative approaches to address the climate impact of using natural resources to produce energy, including ...
The Presidential Memorandum on Mitigation
(Natural Resources & Environment, 2016)
TOn November 3, 2015, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum aimed at unifying the mitigation practice and policy for activities carried out and approved by the Departments of Defense, Interior, and Agriculture, ...