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Regulatory Traffic Jams, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman, Kai-Sheng Song
Regulatory Traffic Jams, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman, Kai-Sheng Song
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
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 models, and thus intended to be channeled through the firm-specific behavioral responses predicted under the rational polluter and good-apple models. Little attention has been paid to the systems level question. The relevant question under the systems model is whether there is a component of noncompliance that does not respond to sanction and facilitation policies that are intended to illicit firm-specific behavioral responses. To answer this will require (1) identifying instances …
Three Questions For Agriculture About The Environment, J.B. Ruhl
Three Questions For Agriculture About The Environment, J.B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This article is the third in my series studying agriculture and environmental law. It asks why agriculture has not evolved toward more environmentally responsible behavior and points to possible "green" solutions that will move agriculture into necessary transformations.
Agriculture And The Environment: Three Myths, Three Themes, Three Directions, J.B. Ruhl
Agriculture And The Environment: Three Myths, Three Themes, Three Directions, J.B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Three very powerful and widely disseminated myths, what I call the Three Myths, have obscured the reality that agriculture is a leading source of environmental harm in our nation. Until we can divorce the dialogue on agri-environmental policy from these myths, the discussion of goals and policy instruments will remain mired.
Farmland Stewardship: Can Ecosystems Stand Any More Of It?, J.B. Ruhl
Farmland Stewardship: Can Ecosystems Stand Any More Of It?, J.B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
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.