Browsing by Subject "climate change"
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(2014-04-01)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental ManagementThe Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for the cleanup of nuclear waste at former nuclear weapons sites across the United States. Cleanup activities of particular interest include the containment of waste in near ...
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(Environmental Law Reporter, 2001)Over the last decade, there has been a sea change in environmental law and policy, marked by growing interest in market-based instruments of environmental protection. In particular, approaches that explicitly commodify ...
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(New York University Law Review, 2007)Reducing the risk of catastrophic climate change will require leveling off greenhouse gas emissions over the short term and reducing emissions by an estimated sixty to eighty percent over the long term. To achieve these ...
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(Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2008)A substantial proportion of the United States population is at or below the poverty level, yet many of the greenhouse gas emissions reduction measures proposed or adopted to date will increase the costs of energy, motor ...
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(New York University Environmental Law Journal, 2010)This article provides a critical missing piece to the global climate change governance puzzle: how to create incentives for the major developing countries to reduce carbon emissions. The major developing countries are ...
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(Southern California Law Review, 2008)The central problem confronting climate change scholars and policymakers is how to create incentives for China and the United States to make prompt, large emissions reductions. China recently surpassed the United States ...
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(2014-12-02)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental ManagementThe 2013 Report Card for the Nation’s Infrastructure, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, estimates that more than 10% of the over 607,000 bridges in the United States are structurally deficient. Engendering ...
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(2013-07-17)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesDesert vegetation in the Southwestern United States influences sediment transport. Specifically, rainsplash processes create mounds beneath shrubs which regulate the sediment flux on hillslopes. In turn, complex plant ...
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(Columbia Law Review, 2018)The 2016 presidential election was one of the most divisive in recent memory, but it produced a surprising bipartisan consensus. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders all agreed that U.S. trade agreements should ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)This Article examines a principal barrier to reducing U.S. carbon emissions — electricity distributors’ financial incentives to sell more of their product — and introduces the concept of net demand reduction (“NDR”) as a ...
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(2013-12-16)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesClimate change and sea level rise will continue to stress the human and natural landscapes over the next century with low-lying deltaic regions characterized by extensive aquifer systems being highly vulnerable to these ...
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(2006-04-19)Department: PhilosophyThe goal of my dissertation is to bring the exacting account of relations found in Hegel's Science of Logic down to earth by bringing it to bear on global climate change. Chapter by chapter, I explain the complicated, ...
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(Chicago-Kent Law Review, 2018)So, what is one to do about The Tarlock Effect? It didn't take long for me to realize early in my academic career-well before my foray into climate change adaptation policy-that there's just no escaping it. So I learned ...
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(UCLA Law Review, 2008)The individual and household sector generates roughly 30 to 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and is a potential source of prompt and large emissions reductions. Yet the assumption that only extensive government ...
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(Arkansas Law Review, 2018)In response to the shrinking federal role in environmental protection, many policy advocates have focused on the role of states and cities, but this symposium focuses on another important source of sustainability initiatives: ...
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(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. ...
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(Sustainability, 2019-08)Extreme weather, climate-induced events that are episodic (e.g., hurricane, heatwave) or chronic (e.g., sea-level rise, temperature change) in nature, is occurring with increasing frequency and severity. This places a ...
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(Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2010)Drawing on the recent financial crisis, we introduce the concept of macro-risk. We distinguish between micro-risks, which can be managed within conventional economic frameworks, and macro-risks, which threaten to disrupt ...
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(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 ...
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(Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2009)We have been asked to examine climate change justice by discussing the methods of allocating the costs of addressing climate change among nations. Our analysis suggests that climate and justice goals cannot be achieved by ...