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Focus: Journal Of The City And Regional Planning Department, Volume 6

Focus

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Unm Law: The Magazine For Alumni And Friends, Spring/Summer 2009, University Of New Mexico - School Of Law

Advancement Print Publications

Information on commencement, guest speakers and events, as well as academic, faculty, and alumni news, and Class Notes.

Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 27, Spring 2009

Environmental Law at Maryland

No abstract provided.

Resources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section contains a listing of teaching resources of all types for those who work in the outdoor education field at the time of publication. Some items highlighted include: "EcoIQ.com" and "HP Limited Edition “Green IT for Dummies” Guide".

Environmental Internship & The Fordham Eco-Roof Proposal, Anthony Giovannone

Student Theses 2001-2013

Fordham received its 2008 College Sustainability Report Card, scrapping by with a C‐ while Columbia received an A‐, and NYU a B‐. Adding to this low score is a C grade on student involvement, which is the essentially why I am writing this proposal. There is an increasing awareness, in college students, of human caused effects on the environment, and its potential degradation due to human action. Many Fordham students would consider themselves environmental citizens, and most are willing to be active. There is a need for an educational application of solutions to the everyday problems that involve human action …

Letters Of Inconsistency: Southeast Resource Recovery, Inc. V. South Carolina Department Of Health And Environmental Control And Loss Of Local Discretion In Landfill Siting, Jim Rourke

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

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Wal-Mart In The Garden District: Does The Arbitrary And Capricious Standard Of Review In Nepa Cases Undermine Citizen Participation?, Dawn E. Jourdan, Kevin Gifford

UF Law Faculty Publications

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), enacted in 1969, requires that agencies of the U.S. government or those seeking to use federal funds to construct projects study the environmental and social impacts of said projects. Under the provisions of NEPA, a first-level review must be conducted for all projects not otherwise exempted. If the entity conducting the review deems that the project will result in a significant impact on humans or the environment, an environmental impact statement (EIS) must be prepared. The decision about whether or not to prepare an EIS can be controversial due to the fact that the …

North Dakota Law, Rob Carolin

North Dakota Law

Alumni Magazine of the University of North Dakota School of Law

Editors' Introduction, Robert K. Hitchcock, Samuel Totten

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Indigenous peoples—those people who consider themselves, or are considered by others, to be Aboriginal, ‘‘First Nations,’’ native peoples, Fourth World peoples, or ‘‘original occupants’’ of specific places on the planet—have faced genocide, cultural destruction, and forced removal from their ancestral areas for thousands of years. Over the centuries, colonization—the expansion of populations into new areas and the exploitation of natural and human resources there—has led to significant declines in the populations of indigenous groups. As Patrick Brantlinger notes, ‘‘One of the main causes for these declines is not mysterious: violence, warfare, genocide.’’1

Climate Change And The Inuit: A Melting Of Actions Into A Cloudy Mess, Katherine King

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Salt Shaker (Vol. 5, Issue 3), Valparaiso University

SALT Shaker

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It's All Happening At The Zoo: Children's Environmental Learning After School, Jason A. Douglas, Cindi Katz

Publications and Research

Pairing dynamic out-of-school-time (OST) programs with zoos can encourage young people's relationships with and sense of responsibility for animals and the environment. The project presented in this article, Animal Rescuers, gave the authors the opportunity to examine how such a pairing can work. OST programs enable learning in settings that are generally unavailable during school time (Honig & McDonald, 2005). They provide space for collaboration among students, teachers, and others such as program visitors or outside educators. Taking advantage of the flexibility, location, and educational playfulness of an OST setting, the authors worked intensively with a small number of 10-12-year-old …

Paving The Legal Path For Carbon Sequestration From Coal, Victor B. Flatt

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.

Full Issue 4.1

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

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A Report From The Field: The Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples—Implementation And Implications, Lori Garcia-Alix, Robert K. Hitchcock

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Over nearly two-and-a-half decades, indigenous peoples and their supporters expended enormous energy on developing a declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples that both protects and promotes their individual and collective rights. The debates surrounding the declaration focused on issues ranging from self- determination to the rights of indigenous peoples to practice their cultures and to participate in decision making. The declaration establishes the requirement for fair and adequate compensation for violations of rights and directly addresses the issues of ethnocide and genocide. The United Nations General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on 13 September …

Campesinos/As Cultivating Soil: Promoting And Adopting Sustainable Agriculture In Jinotega, Nicaragua, Emily Grady

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This study seeks to answer the question: What pedagogies and theoretical and practical concepts and processes effectively facilitate a transition to sustainable agriculture among campesinos/as in rural Nicaragua? From the perspective of both the facilitators and the participants, what makes these methodologies effective and why is this change important? The Cuculmeca, an organization that promotes the sustainable use of the environment and the participation of communities in their own development, has been promoting sustainable agriculture in Jinotega since 1992. The organization has developed a series of pedagogical strategies that tend to facilitate an enduring transition to sustainable agriculture, and in …

Sustainable Commerce: Public Health Law And Environmental Law Provide Tools For Industry And Government To Construct Globally-Competitive Green Economies, T. Rick Irvin, Peter A. Appel

Scholarly Works

This Article examines the legal mechanics underlying the sustainable commerce private/public governance paradigm whereby industry and government create sustainable commerce initiatives which coordinately grow local/state economies and employment, enhance local/state competitiveness in the global marketplace, and at the same time substantially improve local/state public health and environmental infrastructure. This includes an examination of the legal foundation for state/local sustainable commerce initiatives drawn from existing public health and environmental law and a review of two specific local/state sustainable commerce initiatives which have followed this paradigm with impressive results over a two-to-four year timeframe. Part II of this Article examines how public …

Putting A Stop To Sprawl: State Intervention As A Tool For Growth Management, Lesley R. Attkisson

Vanderbilt Law Review

"Sprawl is America's most lethal disease." Although such a statement appears exaggerated upon first consideration, both the scope of urban sprawl and its attendant consequences support the suggestion that sprawl threatens the vitality of the United States. For example, in California, sprawl has reached such a dangerous level that one of the nation's largest banks publicly warned of the potential devastation: "Sprawl has created enormous costs that California can no longer afford. Ironically, unchecked sprawl has shifted from an engine of California's growth to a force that now threatens to inhibit growth and degrade the quality of our life." The …

Matthew Ryan Law & Public Policy Forum: 2009, David Michaels, James Solyst, Sarah Vogel, Martha E. Blasberg

Law Forums

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A Comparison Of Two Common Classification Procedures For Economical Urban Land Cover Mapping Using Naip Imagery, Kent Lowell Simons

Theses and Dissertations

Detailed urban land cover maps are increasingly useful and important applications of remote sensing. Municipal agencies and others use land cover maps and data for numerous critical local planning and monitoring functions and for urban geographical research studies. Because of this, there is a demand for accurate urban land cover maps that can be produced quickly and economically. The availability of very high resolution multispectral imagery is an important factor in enabling such production, as the judicious selection of source imagery has a large impact on the resulting map products. Likewise, the implementation of appropriate digital image processing methods is …

Spectator 2009-03-11, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

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The Communicator, March 5, 2009, Bronx Community College

The Communicator

The Communicator newspaper published on March 5, 2009.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

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2009 Vol. 57 No. 5, Cleveland-Marshall College Of Law

2000s

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The Failures Of American Poverty Measures, Stephen Pimpare

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

How we think about need or deprivation-how we judge its severity, its causes and effects, and the progress we have made (or not made) over time in reducing it-has much to do with how we define and then measure it. And, we measure it poorly. The insufficiencies of official data on American poverty are reasonably well known, yet they continue, nonetheless, to be the principal means by which we gauge need in the United States. After a review of such official measures, this article discusses alternative means of evaluating need in the United States, highlighting the benefits of examining poverty …

Sustainable Commerce: Local /State Government And Industry Using Existing Public And Private Legal Systems To Construct Globally-Competitive Green Economies, Peter A. Appel

Presentations and Speeches

Professor Peter Appel and Dr. T. Rick Irvin, J.D., Managing Principal - Registry Consultants, LLC, presented several case studies, discussed environmental impacts, and revenue projections at the Sustainable Commerce Seminar held at Mercer University School of Law.

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Valuing The Public Health Aspects Of Environmental Enforcement: Qualitative Versus Quantitative Evaluations Of Enforcement Effort, Robin Kundis Craig

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

It would be difficult to contest the status of pollution as a public health problem. However, environmental regulation by definition imposes limitations on private individuals and entities, and those limitations become most acutely obvious in the context of government enforcement actions. As a result, there always has been and likely always will be resistance to environmental regulation and enforcement. In light of this resistance, pollution regulation’s public health benefits offer strong rhetorical and political arguments in favor of such regulation and its effective enforcement, especially during a flailing economy.

Unfortunately, in specific situations, the public health benefits of pollution control …

Sustainable Commerce: Public Health Law And Environmental Law Provide Tools For Industry And Government To Construct Globally-Competitive Green Economies, T. Rick Irvin, Peter A. Appel

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Sustainable commerce initiatives are creating new goods and services that will position the US economy to aggressively compete in global markets. “Sustainable commerce” refers to products and practices which minimize environmental impacts, optimize commercial value, and realize public as well as private environmental benchmarks. How law can create incentives for sustainable commerce to flourish remains a question. In this article, Professor Appel and Dr. Irvin show how industry and state and local governments have not fully utilized the existing public health and environmental legal infrastructure as tools to craft sustainable commerce initiatives. They then outline a private/public governance paradigm in …

Righteous Commitment: Renewing, Repairing, And Restoring The World—Wangari Maathai And The Green Belt Movement, Jennifer Lara Simka Kushner

Dissertations

This Africentric historical inquiry introduces Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and internationally renowned Kenyan activist, as a visionary adult educator and leader of the liberatory environmental movement -The Green Belt Movement. The Movement addresses decades of mis-education through culturally grounded adult education activities that help communities understand the linkages between environmental degradation and poor governance, and educate people to participate in democracy.

The study describes Maathai’s philosophy and how it informed her leadership of environmental, political, and social change. The African philosophical framework of Maat, and the principle of serudj-ta (repairing, renewing and restoring the world) provide a …

From Constitution To Constitutionalism: A Global Framework For Legitimate Public Power Systems, Larry Catá Backer

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.