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Weighing And Balancing Social And Economic Considerations Of Siting Landfills To Address Environmental Justice Concerns, Sharon Shaheen
Weighing And Balancing Social And Economic Considerations Of Siting Landfills To Address Environmental Justice Concerns, Sharon Shaheen
Student Thesis Honors (1996-2008)
Environmental justice in permitting new landfills is best addressed as one element of many weighed in an agency discretionary decision-making process. Siting landfills necessarily includes consideration of technical, social, economic and political issues. Currently, the landfill permitting process in New Mexico examines only technical, scientific, and geological factors. In effect, a permit must be granted if all of the technical specifications and notice requirements are met. To adequately address all of the impacts on a community when a landfill is sited nearby, an agency should have both the discretion to weigh and balance all relevant factors and the authority to …
Wet Water Law: New Mexico Style, G. Emlen Hall
Wet Water Law: New Mexico Style, G. Emlen Hall
Faculty Scholarship
Table of Contents for a course reader. v. 1. The nature of a New Mexico prior appropriation water right -- The attributes of new Mexico water rights -- Surface water and groundwater in New Mexico -- The State Engineer: an administered system -- Statutory adjudications -- New appropriations, transfers and sales of a New Mexico water right -- Emerging issues -- Water planning in New Mexico -- Constraints on the state law of prior appropriation -- v. 2. Emerging local issues -- Federal constraints on the state system -- Native American constraints on the state system -- Interstate water rights.