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Environmental Law

Vanderbilt University Law School

2002

Environmental law

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Corporate Governance In The Cause Of Peace: An Environmental Perspective, Donald O. Mayer Jan 2002

Corporate Governance In The Cause Of Peace: An Environmental Perspective, Donald O. Mayer

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article examines the role of multinational corporations in creating global peace. Part I discusses the role of multinational corporations in the global economy, emphasizing the relationship between multinational corporations, governments, and the environment. Part II explores whether corporations have a moral duty to oppose ill-conceived laws and policy proposals and to support well-conceived laws that encourage efficiency and sustainability, but may hinder short-term profitability. Part III expands and further explores the argument set forth in Part II by examining the continuing dependency of the United States and other industrialized democracies on oil from the Middle East. Part IV concludes …


Farmland Stewardship: Can Ecosystems Stand Any More Of It?, J.B. Ruhl Jan 2002

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.


Three Questions For Agriculture About The Environment, J.B. Ruhl Jan 2002

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 Jan 2002

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.