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Sustainable Soils: Reducing, Mitigating, And Adapting To Climate Change With Organic Agriculture, Meredith Niles Jan 2008

Sustainable Soils: Reducing, Mitigating, And Adapting To Climate Change With Organic Agriculture, Meredith Niles

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Useful Global-Change Scenarios: Current Issues And Challenges, Edward A. Parson Jan 2008

Useful Global-Change Scenarios: Current Issues And Challenges, Edward A. Parson

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Scenarios are increasingly used to inform global-change debates, but their connection to decisions has been weak and indirect. This reflects the greater number and variety of potential users and scenario needs, relative to other decision domains where scenario use is more established. Global-change scenario needs include common elements, e.g., model-generated projections of emissions and climate change, needed by many users but in different ways and with different assumptions. For these common elements, the limited ability to engage diverse global-change users in scenario development requires extreme transparency in communicating underlying reasoning and assumptions, including probability judgments. Other scenario needs are specific …


Sepas, Climate Change, And Corporate Responsibility: The Contribution Of Local Government, Catherine J. Lacroix Jan 2008

Sepas, Climate Change, And Corporate Responsibility: The Contribution Of Local Government, Catherine J. Lacroix

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.


Climate Change And Freshwater Resources, Robert H. Abrams, Noah D. Hall, Bret B. Stuntz Jan 2008

Climate Change And Freshwater Resources, Robert H. Abrams, Noah D. Hall, Bret B. Stuntz

Journal Publications

Earth's climate is warming. This is the unequivocal conclusion of climate scientists. Despite the complexities of climatology, certain consistent trends emerge with implications for water availability: as the world gets warmer, it will experience increased regional variability in precipitation, with more frequent heavy precipitation events and more susceptibility to drought. These simple facts will have a profound impact on freshwater resources throughout the United States, as the warmer climate will reduce available water supplies and increase water demand. Unfortunately, current water law and policy are not up to the new challenges of climate change and resulting pressures on freshwater resources. …


Coal-Fired Power Plants, Greenhouse Gases, And State Statutory Substantial Endangerment Provisions: Climate Change Comes To Kansas, Robert L. Glicksman Jan 2008

Coal-Fired Power Plants, Greenhouse Gases, And State Statutory Substantial Endangerment Provisions: Climate Change Comes To Kansas, Robert L. Glicksman

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

State legislatures and environmental agencies have taken the lead in combating climate change, in the absence of leadership by the federal government. The most widely publicized efforts have involved the imposition of emission controls and fuel economy standards on motor vehicles by states such as California. But the states have also targeted stationary sources of greenhouse gases. In particular, they have sought to minimize carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. States have used different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities, including the adoption of renewable portfolio standards and cap-and-trade emission control programs. Increasingly, states are also …


A Realistic Evaluation Of Climate Change Litigation Through The Lens Of A Hypothetical Lawsuit, Shi-Ling Hsu Jan 2008

A Realistic Evaluation Of Climate Change Litigation Through The Lens Of A Hypothetical Lawsuit, Shi-Ling Hsu

University of Colorado Law Review

Several dozen cases that can be classified as "climate change litigation" have been filed worldwide, and legal scholars have already generated a considerable amount of writing on the phenomenon. The debate and scholarship has sometimes gotten ahead of itself, reflecting on the normative implications of outcomes that are still speculative at this point. This Article seeks to ground this debate by analyzing the actual legal doctrines that may serve as bases for liability, and seeks to make a realistic evaluation of the likelihood of success of these types of suits. Climate change litigation, in its various forms, raises issues of …


The Evangelical Debate Over Climate Change, John Copeland Nagle Jan 2008

The Evangelical Debate Over Climate Change, John Copeland Nagle

Journal Articles

In 2006, a group of prominent evangelicals issued a statement calling for a greater response to climate change. Soon thereafter, another group of prominent evangelicals responded with their own statement urging caution before taking any action against climate change. This division among evangelicals concerning climate change may be surprising for a community that is usually portrayed as homogenous and as indifferent or hostile toward environmental regulation. Yet there is an ongoing debate among evangelicals regarding the severity of climate change, its causes, and the appropriate response. Why? The answer to this question is important because of the increasing prominence of …


Why And How To Tax Carbon, Michael Waggoner Jan 2008

Why And How To Tax Carbon, Michael Waggoner

Publications

Increased concern about possible global warming due to rising levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide ("CO2") suggests the need to control emissions of CO2. This article explores a system of revenue-neutral carbon taxes as a supplement or alternative to other CO2 control systems such as subsidies, regulation, and cap-and-trade. A system of carbon taxation should be, the Article suggests, sufficiently fairer and simpler and more efficient than the other possible systems of CO2 control and that it merits serious consideration. Because the carbon tax that is suggested would be revenue neutral, it should be politically acceptable. Problems with …


American Indians, Climate Change, And Ethics For A Warming World, Sarah Krakoff Jan 2008

American Indians, Climate Change, And Ethics For A Warming World, Sarah Krakoff

Publications

Developing a sense of ourselves that would properly balance history and nature and space and time is a more difficult task than we would suspect and involves a radical reevaluation of the way we look at the world around us. Do we continue to exploit the earth or do we preserve it and preserve life? Whether we are prepared to embark on a painful intellectual journey to discover the parameters of reconciling history and nature is the question of this generation.


Derogating The Precautionary Principle, A. W. Harris Jan 2008

Derogating The Precautionary Principle, A. W. Harris

Villanova Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Global Climate Change Offers Hot Career Opportunities, Michael B. Gerrard Jan 2008

Global Climate Change Offers Hot Career Opportunities, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

Michael Gerrard, editor of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, is passionate about global warming and the role lawyers can play in improving the environment. Student Lawyer's Donna Gerson talks to Gerrard about his career path and how law students can make a difference combating climate change.


What About The Polar Bears - The Future Of The Polar Bears As Predicted By A Survey Of Success Under The Endangered Species Act, Laura Navarro Jan 2008

What About The Polar Bears - The Future Of The Polar Bears As Predicted By A Survey Of Success Under The Endangered Species Act, Laura Navarro

Villanova Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Welcome To The (Impenetrable) Jungle: Massachusetts V. Epa, The Clean Air Act And The Common Law Of Public Nuisance, P. Leigh Bausinger Jan 2008

Welcome To The (Impenetrable) Jungle: Massachusetts V. Epa, The Clean Air Act And The Common Law Of Public Nuisance, P. Leigh Bausinger

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.