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Constitution And Pollution: Federalism At Work, David R. Hodas
Constitution And Pollution: Federalism At Work, David R. Hodas
David R. Hodas
No abstract provided.
State Initiatives, David Hodas
State Initiatives, David Hodas
David R. Hodas
Every state in the United States has adopted laws or policies to address climate change, either explicitly or indirectly through energy regulation, transportation-related initiatives, or energy building codes. Innovative state laws and policies have proven remarkably effective in reducing GHG emissions both quantitatively and as a percentage of state GDP. Broadly speaking, states understand that climate change is a global phenomenon that must be addressed nationally and internationally. Inevitably much GHG emission reduction and adaptation to the adverse consequences of climate change falls on states to implement because of their local powers to regulate utilities, land use, building codes, transportation, …
Law, The Laws Of Nature And Ecosystem Energy Services: A Case Of Wilful Blindness, David R. Hodas
Law, The Laws Of Nature And Ecosystem Energy Services: A Case Of Wilful Blindness, David R. Hodas
David R. Hodas
Ecosystems services include the collection, concentration, and storage of solar energy as fossil fuels (e.g., coal, petroleum, and natural gas). These concentrated forms of energy were produced by ancient ecosystem services. However, our legal and economic systems fail to recognise the value of the ecosystem service subsidies embedded in fossil fuels. This ecosystem services price subsidy causes overuse and waste of fossil fuels in the free market: fossil fuels are consumed more quickly than they can be replaced by ecosystem services and in far larger quantities than they would be if the price of fossil fuels included the cost of …
Law, Ecosystem Valuation And Risk Allocation, David Hodas
Law, Ecosystem Valuation And Risk Allocation, David Hodas
David R. Hodas
Assigning a precise economic value to a non-market ecosystem service or environmental externality that damages an ecosystem or human health and welfare is challenging. However, if we tie fairness and equity to getting the “prices” exactly right, the best will become the enemy of the good and we will sacrifice ecosystem services on the alter of excessive exactness. In terms of equity and ecosystem services, the precision of any particular monetized value is less important than that there be a value, and that the value is incorporated into legal and policy decisions. Existing legal models and institutional frameworks were not …
A Global Law Of Sustainable Energy, David Hodas
A Global Law Of Sustainable Energy, David Hodas
David R. Hodas
The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development adopted the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21 as the core principles and a program of action to achieve sustainable development; neither addressed energy as a central theme. In 2002, sustainable energy was a central theme at the World Summit on Sustainable Development and was addressed in detail in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. However, in 2012, neither climate change nor sustainable energy will be on Rio+20’s agenda. Ironically, 2012 is the U.N. International Year of Sustainable Energy For All. Rio+20 and the International Year are only loosely …
Vantage Point, David R. Hodas
International Law And Sustainable Energy: A Portrait Of Failure, David Hodas
International Law And Sustainable Energy: A Portrait Of Failure, David Hodas
David R. Hodas
Despite energy’s critical role in achieving nearly sustainable development and in mitigating climate change goal, internationally, sustainable energy remains a homeless orphan. In May 2007, after years of preparatory work that was thought to have produced consensus on fundamental sustainable energy policies and principles, the Commission on Sustainable Development met at CSD-15 to adopt a concrete set of specific policies and actions to make the world’s energy system more sustainable and accessible to the world’s poor. Tragically, the CSD-15 not only failed to produce agreement on any new ideas, but the pre-existing consensus on basic principles dissolved. Internationally, not a …
Book Review: Crucial Issues In Climate Change And The Kyoto Protocol: Asia And The World (Koh Kheng-Lian, Lye Lin-Heng And Jolene Lin (Eds)), David Hodas
David R. Hodas
No abstract provided.
Deepwater Drilling And Least-Cost Energy Decision Making, David R. Hodas
Deepwater Drilling And Least-Cost Energy Decision Making, David R. Hodas
David R. Hodas
No abstract provided.
Clean Energy Policy In Delaware: A Small Wonder, Collin O'Mara, Philip Cherry, David R. Hodas
Clean Energy Policy In Delaware: A Small Wonder, Collin O'Mara, Philip Cherry, David R. Hodas
David R. Hodas
No abstract provided.
Delaware Energy Plan: 2009‐2014, David R. Hodas
Climate Change Litigation – Power Point Slides, Chapter Three, David Hodas, Kenneth Kristl, James May
Climate Change Litigation – Power Point Slides, Chapter Three, David Hodas, Kenneth Kristl, James May
David R. Hodas
No abstract provided.
Climate Change Law: Mitigation And Adaptation, Richard Hildreth, David Hodas, Nicholas Robinson, James Speth
Climate Change Law: Mitigation And Adaptation, Richard Hildreth, David Hodas, Nicholas Robinson, James Speth
David R. Hodas
No abstract provided.
Vantage Point, David R. Hodas
Changing Course Towards An Energy-Efficient Future, David R. Hodas
Changing Course Towards An Energy-Efficient Future, David R. Hodas
David R. Hodas
No abstract provided.
Vantage Point & Issue Editor, Transboundary Conflicts Issue, David R. Hodas
Vantage Point & Issue Editor, Transboundary Conflicts Issue, David R. Hodas
David R. Hodas
No abstract provided.
Vantage Point & Issue Editor, Examining The Clean Air Act Issue, David R. Hodas
Vantage Point & Issue Editor, Examining The Clean Air Act Issue, David R. Hodas
David R. Hodas
No abstract provided.
Vantage Point & Issue Editor, Climate Change Issue, David R. Hodas
Vantage Point & Issue Editor, Climate Change Issue, David R. Hodas
David R. Hodas
No abstract provided.
Foreword, David R. Hodas