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2009

Endangered Species Act

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Keeping The Endangered Species Act Relevant, J.B. Ruhl Jan 2009

Keeping The Endangered Species Act Relevant, J.B. Ruhl

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has long been the workhorse of species protection in contexts for which a species-specific approach can effectively be employed to address discrete human-induced threats that have straightforward causal connections to the decline of a species, such as clearing of occupied habitat for development or damming of a river. Its resounding success there, however, has led to the misperception that it can duplicate that record anywhere and for any reason a species is at risk. Yet, is the statute adaptable to the sprawling, sometimes global, phenomena that are wearing down our environmental fabric on landscape scales …


The Endangered Species Act: What We Talk About When We Talk About Recovery, Dale Goble Jan 2009

The Endangered Species Act: What We Talk About When We Talk About Recovery, Dale Goble

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