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Uncertainty And The Endangered Species Act, Teresa Woods, Steve Morey
Uncertainty And The Endangered Species Act, Teresa Woods, Steve Morey
Indiana Law Journal
The U.S. Endangered Species Act requires the US. Fish and Wildlife Service to use the "best available" information when deciding whether to list species as threatened or endangered, and when regulating conservation for species already listed. The agency has discretion to determine the types, quantity, and quality of the information it uses as "best available, "but little discretion to defer decision making in cases where important scientific information is lacking. Complexities of nature, obscurity of many species' life history, and changing environmental circumstances are only some of the reasons why information is rarely complete, and why decisions are almost always …
The Divides Of Environmental Law And The Problem Of Harm In The Endangered Species Act, Robert L. Fischman
The Divides Of Environmental Law And The Problem Of Harm In The Endangered Species Act, Robert L. Fischman
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Missing Information: The Scientific Data Gap in Conservation and Chemical Regulation, held on March 24, 2006 at Indiana University School of Law- Bloomington.
Overview: Radical Environmental Change In The Polar Regions Is The Globe’S Wake-Up Call, William J. Snape Iii
Overview: Radical Environmental Change In The Polar Regions Is The Globe’S Wake-Up Call, William J. Snape Iii
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
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Climate Change, Regulatory Fragmentation, And Water Triage, Robin Kundis Craig
Climate Change, Regulatory Fragmentation, And Water Triage, Robin Kundis Craig
University of Colorado Law Review
Viewed from a watershed perspective, we are unconsciously sacrificing many marine ecosystems because upstream fresh water is a regulatorily fragmented resource. That is, water is subject to multiple assertions of regulatory authority and to multiple types of use-right claims that those authorities regulate. As freshwater supplies become increasingly unequal to the task of meeting the multiple demands for both consumptive and in situ use, and as consumptive and in situ uses of water come increasingly into irreconcilable conflict, the various regulatory schemes governing water use have also increasingly come into legal conflict. These courtroom battles have revealed many tensions, overlaps, …