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Full-Text Articles in Law
Coping With Climate: Legal Innovation In The Absence Of Full Reform, Robert R.M. Verchick, Faye Sheets
Coping With Climate: Legal Innovation In The Absence Of Full Reform, Robert R.M. Verchick, Faye Sheets
Robert R.M. Verchick
In the absence of a federal legislation directing government to adapt to the unavoidable effects of climate change, the Obama administration has put its faith in existing environmental laws like the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), and the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). But often federal objectives focus only on reducing greenhouse gases—what experts call “mitigation”—and neglect strategies for coping with the climate disruptions that we cannot avoid—otherwise known as “adaptation.” Where the federal policy falls short, states are beginning to experiment on their own with climate adaptation strategies. This essay examines both approaches, mitigation and …
Letting Nature Work In The Pacific Northwest: A Manual For Protecting Ecosystem Services Under Existing Law, Robert Adler, Robert Glicksman, Yee Huang, Daniel Rohlf, Robert R.M. Verchick
Letting Nature Work In The Pacific Northwest: A Manual For Protecting Ecosystem Services Under Existing Law, Robert Adler, Robert Glicksman, Yee Huang, Daniel Rohlf, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
In the decades since Congress and state legislatures passed most of the nation's most significant environmental laws, our knowledge about ecosystems has increased dramatically. We know much more about the “goods and services” that ecosystems provide—more, for example, about the migratory species that sustain agriculture by functioning as pollinators, and more about how healthy ecosystems help to filter and clean our water. But our policymakers haven’t yet taken advantage of much of that new knowledge. As ecologists learn more about the complex and dynamic interactions that produce these valuable services, decisionmakers and advocates should adopt an ecosystem services approach to …
In Making Disaster Plans, We Have To Imagine The Worst Case, Robert R.M. Verchick
In Making Disaster Plans, We Have To Imagine The Worst Case, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Recovery In Japan: Will It Be Heavy-Handed Or Hands-Off?, Robert R.M. Verchick
Recovery In Japan: Will It Be Heavy-Handed Or Hands-Off?, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Afterword: The Economics Of Infrastructure, Robert R.M. Verchick
Afterword: The Economics Of Infrastructure, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
A Federal Obligation, Robert R.M. Verchick
An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, David Driesen, Alyson Flournoy, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert Glicksman, Carmen Gonzalez, David Gottlieb, Donald Hornstein, Douglas Kysar, Thomas Mcgarity, Catherine O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Sidney Shapiro, Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor, Joseph Tomain, Robert R.M. Verchick, Karen Sokol
An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, David Driesen, Alyson Flournoy, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert Glicksman, Carmen Gonzalez, David Gottlieb, Donald Hornstein, Douglas Kysar, Thomas Mcgarity, Catherine O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Sidney Shapiro, Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor, Joseph Tomain, Robert R.M. Verchick, Karen Sokol
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Toward Normative Rules For Agency Interpretation: Defining Jurisdiction Under The Clean Water Act, Robert R.M. Verchick
Toward Normative Rules For Agency Interpretation: Defining Jurisdiction Under The Clean Water Act, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
Wetlands advocates, from environmentalists to duck hunters, dodged a bullet last year when the Bush Administration dropped plans to narrow its jurisdiction over streams and wetlands. The decision marked a key chapter in a story that began in 2001, when the Supreme Court invalidated part of the Migratory Bird Rule, a regulation that for many years had supported federal protection over some intrastate wetlands. The Court's broad rejection of this narrow rule sent federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act into a tailspin. The decision opened debates about tributaries and intermittent streams in the Southwest. It also appeared to narrow …
Beyond The “Courts Of The Conqueror”: Balancing Private And Cultural Property Rights Under Hawaiian Law, M. Casey Jarman, Robert R.M. Verchick
Beyond The “Courts Of The Conqueror”: Balancing Private And Cultural Property Rights Under Hawaiian Law, M. Casey Jarman, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Critical Space Theory: Keeping Local Geography In American And European Environmental Law, Robert R.M. Verchick
Critical Space Theory: Keeping Local Geography In American And European Environmental Law, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
Recently, legal scholars have begun to explore the meaning and significance of geographic space in law within the United States and internationally, a project highlighted in a 1996 Stanford Law Review symposium. Much of this discussion draws implicitly and explicitly on critical legal theory in approaching geographic themes -- suggesting the beginning of what the author calls "Critical Space Theory." This article uses Critical Space Theory to address the legal significance of geography in relation to two environmental issues in the United States and the European Union: (1) transborder waste transportation and (2) judicial standing. Each issue raises questions of …
The Commerce Clause, Environmental Justice, And The Interstate Garbage Wars, Robert R.M. Verchick
The Commerce Clause, Environmental Justice, And The Interstate Garbage Wars, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
This Article critically examines the Court's garbage cases in conjunction with traditional principles of Commerce Clause jurisprudence for the purpose of constructing a doctrine that is at once constitutionally and ecologically sound. The Article is divided into five parts. Part I briefly describes the current state of the garbage wars, both in terms of environmental effects and in terms of constitutional developments. Parts II and III critically examine the Court's garbage cases from the perspectives of two traditional justifications for the negative Commerce Clause: encouraging fair representation of residents across state lines and discouraging economic protectionism. Here I conclude that …