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Full-Text Articles in Law
Slides: Practicing Sustainability In Natural Resource Industries, Gary D. Libecap
Slides: Practicing Sustainability In Natural Resource Industries, Gary D. Libecap
Natural Resource Industries and the Sustainability Challenge (Martz Winter Symposium, February 27-28)
Presenter: Gary D. Libecap, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and Economics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Environmentalist Attack On Environmental Law, John Copeland Nagle
The Environmentalist Attack On Environmental Law, John Copeland Nagle
Journal Articles
This essay reviews two books written by leading scholars that express profound dissatisfaction with the ability of environmental law to actually protect the environment. Mary Wood’s “Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age” calls for “deep change in environmental law,” emphasizing the roles that agency issuance of permits to modify the environment and excessive deference to agency decisions play in ongoing environmental destruction. Wood proposes a “Nature’s Trust” built on the public trust doctrine to empower courts to play a much more aggressive role in overseeing environmental decisionmaking. In “Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law …