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Highways And Bi-Ways For Environmental Justice, Richard J. Lazarus

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the past, present, and future of the environmental justice movement as illustrated by the highway between Selma and Montgomery in Alabama and the highway system surrounding the City of Atlanta in neighboring Georgia. The essay is divided into three parts. The first part describes environmental justice, seeking both to place it in a broader historical perspective and to discuss how it relates to civil rights law and environmental law. The second part undertakes a closer examination of the challenges presented by efforts to fashion positive law to address environmental justice norms. This …

Legal Trade In African Elephant Ivory: Buy Ivory To Save The Elephant?, Sam B. Edwards Iii

Animal Law Review

Trade in endangered species is a complicated issue. The trade in ivory creates tensions between western conservation-driven beliefs and developing countries' reliance on wildlife as a resource. This article examines the recent decision under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to conduct a one-time sale of ivory from Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Botswana to Japan. Since trade in endangered species involves many different disciplines, this paper touches on biology, international law, economics, and public policy. In theory, limited trade in African elephant ivory is possible and even advantageous for the various actors. However, in practice, the management controls …

Reflections On Environmental Justice, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

Environmental justice is a very hot topic. Yesterday's New York Times on the front page of the Metropolitan section had a story stating: Mid-Sized Plants Headed to Poor Areas. The story stated, "The Pataki administration acknowledges in its own study that the electric generators that it wants to install around New York City would go into poor heavily minority communities, a finding that supports some of the arguments of the project's opponents. This is quoting an unreleased environmental justice analysis that may or may not be valid, but it certainly shows how hot a topic it is. This morning …

Judicial Review Under Seqra: A Statistical Study, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

Nearly 2000 judicial opinions were issued under the State Environmental Quality Review Act ("SEQRA") between its enactment in 1975 and the end of 2000. Almost 700 were issued from 1990 (when the author began undertaking an annual review of SEQRA cases for the New York Law Journal) through 2000. These numbers are large enough to serve as a basis for a statistically valid review of case outcomes.

This article is divided into five parts. Part I presents statistics on the SEQRA cases. Part II reviews the history of how the Court of Appeals has decided SEQRA cases. Part III …

Environmentalism In South Africa: A Sociopolitical Perspective, Farieda Khan

Macalester International

No abstract provided.

Law's Disengaged Left, Gene R. Nichol

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Meeting Notes 2000-12-14 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

R.I.T. News & Events - December 14 2000, University News Services, Rochester Institute Of Technology

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Salt Equalizer, Vol. 2000, Issue 4, Society Of American Law Teachers

SALT Equalizer

Contents of this issue:

Eric S. Janus, A Focus on Access to the Legal Profession, at 1.

Carol Chomsky & Margaret Montoya, Presidents' Column, at 1.

Joan Howarth, Report from the Bar Exam Task Force, at 2.

Cover Conference Scheduled for March 2-4 in New Hampshire, at 3.

Jane Dolkart, Theresa Glennon & Peter Margulies, The Robert Cover Workshop, at 3.

Theresa Glennon & Peter Margulies, Improving Law School Admissions Now, at 3.

Sylvia A. Law, SALT Honors Found and First President Norman Dorsen, at 4.

Norman Dorsen's Acceptance, at 5.

Deborah …

Currencies And The Commodification Of Environmental Law, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The success of several environmental trading markets (ETMs) has led to proposals for broader use of ETMs in environmental and resource management policy. The successful ETMs all share a basic feature-they exchange units of trade that are fungible, such as tons of sulfur dioxide or kilos of fish. This feature of trading promotes resource allocation efficiency while advancing environmental protection. But most commodities exchanged in current and proposed ETMs, such as wetlands and endangered species habitat, exhibit nonfungibilities across the dimensions of type, time, and space. Using ETMs to trade these commodities is no longer trading "environmental apples for apples," …

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A list of books recenlty received by Michigan Law Review.

Spectator 2000-11-30, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

Meeting Notes 2000-11-09 [Part A] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Community Impact Assessment: A Handbook For Transportation Professionals, Cutr

Transportation Planning, Policy, and Processes (TP3) Final Reports

No abstract provided.

Community Impact Assessment: A Handbook For Transportation Professionals, Jeffrey Kramer, Kristine Williams

CUTR Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Eco- Industrial Parks A Feasibility Study For San Francisco, Lemont Erick Adams

Master's Projects

The this report addresses the feasibility of developing an Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) on the Pier 90-94 Baeklands site adjacent to the Bay View Hunters Point area of San Francisco. The Eco-Industrial Park concept is a new paradigm of Industrial Ecology, in which, an industrial system of planned materials and energy exchanges occurs, creating sustainable economic, ecological and social relationships. Communities like Hunters Point suffering from severe economic distress and Environmental Justice issues can potentially alleviate environmental and economic degradation through the development of an EIP. Eco- Industrial development fits with other existing economic development approaches planners currently use, such as …

Meeting Notes 2000-10-19 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 50, Fall 2000, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

No abstract provided.

A Book Review Of An Invitation To Environmental Sociology, George Dillmann

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Nonprofit Organizations In Brownfields Redevelopment: Leveling The Playing BrownField, Ellen B. Sturm

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Review Of Environmental Management On North America's Borders Edited By Richard Kiy And John D. Wirth, J. Gordon Nelson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This timely book is produced by the North American Institute, which is devoted to dealing with issues in North America through tri-national collaboration. Originating at a meeting of some of its contributors in New Mexico in 1995 and completed in a year or so, this fairly current volume is most useful in addressing environmental challenges across North America's borders since NAFTA's adoption, including water and air pollution which interact on a continental and indeed a global scale.

The International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights: A Toothless Tiger, Kristen D.A. Carpenter

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

October 2000, Ciel, Handbook On The Office Of The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman , Draft, Center For International Environmental Law

CAO General 1999-Present

No abstract provided.

Spectator 2000-09-28, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

Meeting Notes 2000-09-14 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Arbiter, September 13, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

In Practice, [V. 1, No. 1], Fall 2000

In Practice

No abstract provided.

Evst 395.03: The U.S. Environmental Movement(S), Neva Hassanein

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Geog 550.01: Seminar In Global Change, Eric Edlund, Sarah J. Halvorson

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Expanding The Use Of Environmental Trading Programs Into New Areas Of Environmental Regulation, Richard E. Ayres

Pace Environmental Law Review

This article identifies the fundamental policy issues that must be dealt with in designing market-based pollution control systems. Market- based pollution control systems are now well established in America air and water pollution control programs. So far, however, the benefits of such systems have been limited by the unease of regulators and others about quality assurance, environmental justice, and other design issues. In order to realize the full potential benefits of market-based programs these issues must be addressed as part of the program design.