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Coping With Climate: Legal Innovation In The Absence Of Full Reform, Robert R.M. Verchick, Faye Sheets
Coping With Climate: Legal Innovation In The Absence Of Full Reform, Robert R.M. Verchick, Faye Sheets
Robert R.M. Verchick
In the absence of a federal legislation directing government to adapt to the unavoidable effects of climate change, the Obama administration has put its faith in existing environmental laws like the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), and the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). But often federal objectives focus only on reducing greenhouse gases—what experts call “mitigation”—and neglect strategies for coping with the climate disruptions that we cannot avoid—otherwise known as “adaptation.” Where the federal policy falls short, states are beginning to experiment on their own with climate adaptation strategies. This essay examines both approaches, mitigation and …
Letting Nature Work In The Pacific Northwest: A Manual For Protecting Ecosystem Services Under Existing Law, Robert Adler, Robert Glicksman, Yee Huang, Daniel Rohlf, Robert R.M. Verchick
Letting Nature Work In The Pacific Northwest: A Manual For Protecting Ecosystem Services Under Existing Law, Robert Adler, Robert Glicksman, Yee Huang, Daniel Rohlf, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
In the decades since Congress and state legislatures passed most of the nation's most significant environmental laws, our knowledge about ecosystems has increased dramatically. We know much more about the “goods and services” that ecosystems provide—more, for example, about the migratory species that sustain agriculture by functioning as pollinators, and more about how healthy ecosystems help to filter and clean our water. But our policymakers haven’t yet taken advantage of much of that new knowledge. As ecologists learn more about the complex and dynamic interactions that produce these valuable services, decisionmakers and advocates should adopt an ecosystem services approach to …
In Making Disaster Plans, We Have To Imagine The Worst Case, Robert R.M. Verchick
In Making Disaster Plans, We Have To Imagine The Worst Case, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Recovery In Japan: Will It Be Heavy-Handed Or Hands-Off?, Robert R.M. Verchick
Recovery In Japan: Will It Be Heavy-Handed Or Hands-Off?, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
One L Revisited: Tales From The Back Bench, Robert R.M. Verchick
One L Revisited: Tales From The Back Bench, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
My move to Harvard Law was an exciting, but sometimes frustrating transition. The law school community was large and anonymous, the famous Bauhaus dormitories (designed by Walter Gropius) part Habitrail and part shoebox factory, the eyes of campus administrators a baleful gray. I had come with a bachelor's degree in English (English!) from a west coast univer-sity that called itself “the Farm,” a campus known for fragrant eucalyptus and a pride of lion-colored hills. Harvard Law was certainly no “Farm,” and to my eye it was no “Hundred-Acre Wood” either. Whimsy? Forget it. . . .
Adaptation, Economics, And Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick
Adaptation, Economics, And Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Afterword: The Economics Of Infrastructure, Robert R.M. Verchick
Afterword: The Economics Of Infrastructure, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
A Federal Obligation, Robert R.M. Verchick
Same-Sex And The City, Robert R.M. Verchick
Same-Sex And The City, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
SIX MONTHS AFTER GAYS AND LESBIANS began tying the knot in Massachusetts, American voters responded with a crushing blow, approving, in eleven states, constitutional amendments outlawing same-sex marriage. The honeymoon— in case you hadn't noticed—is over. The new year will soon see a new flock of law review articles on the subject, assessing this latest chapter of what Justice Scalia calls our “kulturkampf,” a struggle that seems bound to include the Bush Administration's push for a proposed amendment to the federal Constitution banning same-sex marriage and at least twenty new lawsuits in el- even states seeking to allow the same. …
Loving Las Vegas, Robert R.M. Verchick
Loving Las Vegas, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
The allure of Las Vegas is captured in its new brilliantly successful marketing line: “What happens here, stays here.” The idea is that a tourist can blow into town, behave in an embarrassing or decadent way, and return home with no one the wiser. As it pertains to individual behavior, we can only hope much of the rhetoric is true (though tattoos are hard to erase). But at the wider level of economic and cultural influence, the statement could not be more false. At that level, what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas: it gradually seeps out and …
An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, David Driesen, Alyson Flournoy, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert Glicksman, Carmen Gonzalez, David Gottlieb, Donald Hornstein, Douglas Kysar, Thomas Mcgarity, Catherine O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Sidney Shapiro, Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor, Joseph Tomain, Robert R.M. Verchick, Karen Sokol
An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, David Driesen, Alyson Flournoy, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert Glicksman, Carmen Gonzalez, David Gottlieb, Donald Hornstein, Douglas Kysar, Thomas Mcgarity, Catherine O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Sidney Shapiro, Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor, Joseph Tomain, Robert R.M. Verchick, Karen Sokol
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Beyond The “Courts Of The Conqueror”: Balancing Private And Cultural Property Rights Under Hawaiian Law, M. Casey Jarman, Robert R.M. Verchick
Beyond The “Courts Of The Conqueror”: Balancing Private And Cultural Property Rights Under Hawaiian Law, M. Casey Jarman, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
A Survey Of Federal Agency Response To President Clinton's Executive Order No. 12898 On Environmental Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick, Denis Binder, Colin Crawford, Eileen Gauna, M. Casey Jarman, Alice Kaswan, Bradford Mank, Catherine O'Neill, Cliff Rechtschaffen
A Survey Of Federal Agency Response To President Clinton's Executive Order No. 12898 On Environmental Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick, Denis Binder, Colin Crawford, Eileen Gauna, M. Casey Jarman, Alice Kaswan, Bradford Mank, Catherine O'Neill, Cliff Rechtschaffen
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
“A Civil Action” Shows How Community Is Often Forgotten, Robert R.M. Verchick
“A Civil Action” Shows How Community Is Often Forgotten, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Dust Bowl Blues: Saving And Sharing The Ogallala Aquifer, Robert R.M. Verchick
Dust Bowl Blues: Saving And Sharing The Ogallala Aquifer, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Critical Space Theory: Keeping Local Geography In American And European Environmental Law, Robert R.M. Verchick
Critical Space Theory: Keeping Local Geography In American And European Environmental Law, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
Recently, legal scholars have begun to explore the meaning and significance of geographic space in law within the United States and internationally, a project highlighted in a 1996 Stanford Law Review symposium. Much of this discussion draws implicitly and explicitly on critical legal theory in approaching geographic themes -- suggesting the beginning of what the author calls "Critical Space Theory." This article uses Critical Space Theory to address the legal significance of geography in relation to two environmental issues in the United States and the European Union: (1) transborder waste transportation and (2) judicial standing. Each issue raises questions of …
In A Greener Voice: Feminist Theory And Environmental Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick
In A Greener Voice: Feminist Theory And Environmental Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
This Article explores the way in which women activists--and the feminist strategies they contribute--help shape the meaning and pursuit of environmental justice. [FN8] It shows how methods associated with feminism have contributed to the movement's premier concerns for family safety and social equality and have prompted creative ways to identify and attack a broad range of environmental threats. The Article is divided into four parts. Part I briefly surveys the participation of women in the environmental justice movement and examines the reasons why so many women become involved in grassroots environmental struggles. Part II shows how the strategies and goals …