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A Right Of Ethical Consideration For Non-Human Animals, Michael Ray Harris
A Right Of Ethical Consideration For Non-Human Animals, Michael Ray Harris
UC Law Environmental Journal
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Counting Carbon: Forward-Looking Analysis Of Decarbonization, Ryan Thomas Trahan
Counting Carbon: Forward-Looking Analysis Of Decarbonization, Ryan Thomas Trahan
UC Law Environmental Journal
Policy analysis primarily looks backward to solve problems of individual and public choice. Analysts often seek to derive and draw marginal curves from existing data to extrapolate observed relationships into the future. Indeed, the White House Council on Environmental Quality recently issued a proposed rule that would, among other things, codify the concepts underlying these tools for environmental matters, i.e., requiring the considered effects of a proposed action to be “reasonably foreseeable” and meet a “reasonably close causal relationship.” That proposal expresses a perspective with a long tradition, yet it presents a curious circumstance. Although marginal and statistical regression tools …
The Special Purpose District Reconsidered: The Fifth Circuit’S Recent Declaration That The Edwards Aquifer Authority Is A Special Purpose District Under The Voting Rights Act, And The Tortured History That Led To That Decision, Christopher Brown
UC Law Environmental Journal
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Protecting Cultural Heritage By Recourse To International Environmental Law: Chinese Stances On Faultless State Liability, Riccardo Vecellio Segate
Protecting Cultural Heritage By Recourse To International Environmental Law: Chinese Stances On Faultless State Liability, Riccardo Vecellio Segate
UC Law Environmental Journal
Several international policy documents define the environment as made of “natural heritage” and “cultural heritage” together, along the lines of concepts such as “biosphere” or “ecosystem” which have been introduced relatively recently to define the complexity of humanenvironment interactions. Nevertheless, distinguishing natural heritage from the cultural one helps analyse situations where damage inflicted to the former negatively impacts the latter. In fact, cultural heritage sits under siege worldwide due to polluting activities and environmental degradation, which are causing irreparable damage to—or even the disappearance of— valuable expressions of civilisations’ legacy. Most damages are transboundary, thereby calling into question bilateral forms …
A Forgotten History: How The Asian American Workforce Cultivated Monterey County’S Agricultural Industry, Despite National Anti-Asian Rhetoric, Dominique Marangoni-Simonsen
A Forgotten History: How The Asian American Workforce Cultivated Monterey County’S Agricultural Industry, Despite National Anti-Asian Rhetoric, Dominique Marangoni-Simonsen
UC Law Environmental Journal
This paper analyzes the implementation of exclusionary citizenship laws against Chinese and Japanese immigrants from 1880 to 1940. It further analyzes the application of these exclusionary mechanisms to the Asian immigrant populations in Monterey County, California. It identifies how the agricultural industry in Monterey County by-passed these exclusion laws as a result of the favored labor force of Japanese immigrants. The paper compares the acceptance of Japanese laborers to the decimation of the Chinese fishing industry in the county, which caused the eradication of Chinese culture. Finally, the paper analyzes the retroactive effects of these laws to the current Feast …
Enabling Instream Rights In The Mill Creek Zanja, Tyler Fields
Enabling Instream Rights In The Mill Creek Zanja, Tyler Fields
UC Law Environmental Journal
The Mill Creek Zanja is a 200-year-old, twelve-mile canal cut from the banks of a nearby stream. The Zanja was built originally as an irrigation canal to serve agriculture and industry in what is now Redlands, California located just outside Los Angeles. Since the Zanja’s construction in the early 19th century, the “rights” to the waters of the Zanja have been intensely litigated, highly sought after, and heavily debated. Today, the Zanja flow is around 40,000 to 50,000 acre feet per year. The water is used primarily by the City of Redlands for drinking water and by Crafton Water Company …