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Legal, Policy, And Environmental Scholars Discuss Global Food Systems At Indiana Law Symposium, James Owsley Boyd

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The Indiana University Maurer School of Law and its Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies are hosting scholars from around the country Friday and Saturday (Jan. 19-20) for an interdisciplinary discussion on one of the world’s most prevalent problems—food insecurity.

Data from the World Bank estimate more than 780 million people around the world suffered from chronic hunger in 2022. As climate change affects agricultural production and water accessibility, the problem could worsen in coming years.

“A Fragile Framework: How Global Food Systems Intersect with the International Legal Order, the Environment, and the World’s Populations” will bring together legal, policy, …

Advantages Of A Polycentric Approach To Climate Change Policy, Daniel H. Cole

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Lack of progress in global climate negotiations has led scholars to reconsider polycentric approaches to climate policy. Several examples of subglobal mechanisms to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions have been touted, but it remains unclear why they might achieve better climate outcomes than global negotiations alone. Decades of work conducted by researchers associated with the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University have emphasized two chief advantages of polycentric approaches over monocentric ones: they provide more opportunities for experimentation and learning to improve policies over time, and they increase communications and interactions — formal and …

The Law And Economics Of Development And Environment: An Introduction To The Symposium, Daniel H. Cole

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Marxism And The Failure Of Environmental Protection In Eastern Europe And The U.S.S.R., Daniel H. Cole

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The Perils Of Unreasonable Risk: Information, Regulatory Policy, And Toxic Substances Control, John S. Applegate

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Book Review. Pollution And Policy: A Case Essay On California And Federal Experience With Motor Vehicle Air Pollution, 1940-1975 By J. E. Krier And E. Ursin, A. Dan Tarlock

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Book Review. Nepa In The Courts: A Legal Analysis Of The National Environmental Policy Act By F. R. Anderson, A. Dan Tarlock

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