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Disconnects Between Water And Land Use Resource Management [Abstract], Dan Tarlock, Lora A. Lucero
Disconnects Between Water And Land Use Resource Management [Abstract], Dan Tarlock, Lora A. Lucero
Allocating and Managing Water for a Sustainable Future: Lessons from Around the World (Summer Conference, June 11-14)
2 pages.
Concluding Comments, Mark Pearson
Concluding Comments, Mark Pearson
Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)
3 pages.
In Praise Of Parochialism: The Advent Of Local Environmental Law, John R. Nolon
In Praise Of Parochialism: The Advent Of Local Environmental Law, John R. Nolon
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This Article explains the role that local governments have assumed in protecting the environment, explores the means by which they have obtained their authority to do so, and discusses how this enhanced municipal role should influence environmental and land use policy at the federal and state level. Part II reviews federal efforts to control nonpoint source pollution, and identifies the constraints on federal action. Among these constraints is the national understanding that the power to control the private use of land is a state prerogative, one that has been delegated, in most states, to local governments. Part III describes how …