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2012

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Full-Text Articles in Natural Resources Law

Current Resiliency Projects And Potential Partnership Opportunities, Greg Hoffman Jan 2012

Current Resiliency Projects And Potential Partnership Opportunities, Greg Hoffman

Sea Grant Law Fellow Publications

No abstract provided.


Increasing Infrastructure's Resiliency To Global Climate Change Effects: Seeking Non-Traditional Federal Partnerships In Rhode Island's Coastal Beach Zones, James Mcmahon Jan 2012

Increasing Infrastructure's Resiliency To Global Climate Change Effects: Seeking Non-Traditional Federal Partnerships In Rhode Island's Coastal Beach Zones, James Mcmahon

Sea Grant Law Fellow Publications

No abstract provided.


Newport Harborwalk Public Access Issues, Nicholas Paine Jan 2012

Newport Harborwalk Public Access Issues, Nicholas Paine

Sea Grant Law Fellow Publications

No abstract provided.


Escaping The Sporhase Maze: Protecting State Waters Within The Commerce Clause, Mark S. Davis, Michael Pappas Jan 2012

Escaping The Sporhase Maze: Protecting State Waters Within The Commerce Clause, Mark S. Davis, Michael Pappas

Publications

Eastern states, though they have enjoyed a history of relatively abundant water, increasingly face the need to conserve water, particularly to protect water-dependent ecosystems. At the same time, growing water demands, climate change, and an emerging water-oriented economy have intensified pressure for interstate water transfers. Thus, even traditionally wet states are seeking to protect or secure their water supplies. However, restrictions on water sales and exports risk running afoul of the Dormant Commerce Clause. This Article offers guidance for states, particularly eastern states concerned with maintaining and improving water-dependent ecosystems, in seeking to restrict water exports while staying within the …


The Landsafe Socioecological Development Model For The Customary Commons Of Zambia: Evolution And Formalization, I.P.A. Manning Jan 2012

The Landsafe Socioecological Development Model For The Customary Commons Of Zambia: Evolution And Formalization, I.P.A. Manning

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.


Looking Beyond The Bang For More Bucks: A Legislative Gift To Fund Wildlife Conservation On Its 75th Anniversary, Katie Spidalieri Jan 2012

Looking Beyond The Bang For More Bucks: A Legislative Gift To Fund Wildlife Conservation On Its 75th Anniversary, Katie Spidalieri

Cleveland State Law Review

The concept of hunter-supported wildlife conservation behind the Pittman-Robertson Act has been termed the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Since 1937, the Pittman-Robertson Act and this unique Model have been recognized as “the oldest and most successful wildlife management program in the nation’s history."This Note will argue that the government’s historical preoccupation with hunting overlooks the potential to extend the Model’s reach to the great outdoor industry prevalent in America. Specifically, the Model can be resuscitated if additional categories of outdoorsmen, like campers, hikers, and birdwatchers, are included as financial stakeholders in wildlife conservation. To broaden the conservation tax …


Fire Losses And Conflicting Judicial Rulings Over Whether Property Insurers Must Indemnify Insureds And Pay Third-Party Claims - Some Implications For Wildfire Litigation In Texas's Courts, Willy E. Rice Jan 2012

Fire Losses And Conflicting Judicial Rulings Over Whether Property Insurers Must Indemnify Insureds And Pay Third-Party Claims - Some Implications For Wildfire Litigation In Texas's Courts, Willy E. Rice

Faculty Articles

Wildfires in Texas have generated two interrelated questions: (1) whether insurers have a duty to indemnify residential and commercial property owners if a wild forest, brush, grass, or prairie fire destroys homeowners' property in Texas, and (2) whether insurers have a duty to pay or settle third-party claims in Texas if a property owner starts a fire on her property, which evolves into a wildfire and destroys a third party's residential or commercial property.


The Role Of International Law In Intrastate Natural Resource Allocation, Lillian A. Miranda Jan 2012

The Role Of International Law In Intrastate Natural Resource Allocation, Lillian A. Miranda

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

State natural resource development projects have become sites of intense political, social, and cultural contestation among a diversity of actors. In particular, such projects often lead to detrimental consequences for the empowerment, livelihood, and cultural and economic development of historically marginalized communities. This Article fills a gap in the existing literature by identifying and analyzing emerging international law approaches that impact the intrastate allocation of land and natural resources to historically marginalized communities, and thereby, carve away at states' top-down decision-making authority over development. It argues that while international law may have only been originally concerned with the allocation of …


Valuing Art In An Estate: New Concerns, Anne-Marie Rhodes Jan 2012

Valuing Art In An Estate: New Concerns, Anne-Marie Rhodes

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Wilderness, Water, And Climate Change, Sandra B. Zellmer Jan 2012

Wilderness, Water, And Climate Change, Sandra B. Zellmer

Faculty Law Review Articles

As the nation searches for climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, the pressure to develop water resources within wilderness areas and to exploit the timber, forage, wildlife, fish, and other virtually untapped components of wilderness will become more acute. This Article makes the case that managers and legislatures should not yield to this pressure and argues that, if anything, the need to preserve untrammeled wilderness characteristics is just as imperative today as it was in 1964 when the Wilderness Act was passed The Article examines the potency of the Wilderness Act and a trio of federal water law doctrines-federally reserved water …


State And Local Responses To Climate Change Through Hazard Adaptation Measures: White Paper Synthesizing Innovative State And Local Climate Change Adaptation Strategies, Marine Affairs Institute, Roger Williams University School Of Law Jan 2012

State And Local Responses To Climate Change Through Hazard Adaptation Measures: White Paper Synthesizing Innovative State And Local Climate Change Adaptation Strategies, Marine Affairs Institute, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Sea Grant Law Fellow Publications

No abstract provided.


The Implications Of Rolling Easements And Transferred Development Rights In Maine, Connecticut, And Massachusetts, Katie Zilgme Jan 2012

The Implications Of Rolling Easements And Transferred Development Rights In Maine, Connecticut, And Massachusetts, Katie Zilgme

Sea Grant Law Fellow Publications

No abstract provided.


The Quest For A Sustainable Future And The Dawn Of A New Journal At Michigan Law, David M. Uhlmann Jan 2012

The Quest For A Sustainable Future And The Dawn Of A New Journal At Michigan Law, David M. Uhlmann

Articles

When I joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 2007, the first assignment I gave students in my Environmental Law and Policy class was John McPhee's Encounters with the Archdruid. It must have seemed like a curious choice to them, particularly coming from a professor who just three months earlier had been the Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section at the U.S. Department of Justice. The book was not a dramatic tale of courtroom battles. In fact, the book was not even about the law, and the clash of environmental values it depicted pre-dated the environmental …


A Risky Business: Generation Of Nuclear Power And Deepwater Drilling For Offshore Oil And Gas, Hope M. Babcock Jan 2012

A Risky Business: Generation Of Nuclear Power And Deepwater Drilling For Offshore Oil And Gas, Hope M. Babcock

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Government regulation and licensing of industrial activities that create the possibility of catastrophic risk reflect “a political value judgment that these activities provide a social benefit that is greater than the social cost of the risks that they cause.” However, when a catastrophic accident occurs, the cost-benefit evaluations underlying the value judgment that authorized the activity may need to be rethought. Social rethinking is especially warranted when the accident could have been prevented had either the industry or the government more seriously assessed the risk of a catastrophic event and implemented precautionary steps to avoid it. This was the conclusion …


Water Rights, Markets, And Changing Ecological Conditions, Jonathan H. Adler Jan 2012

Water Rights, Markets, And Changing Ecological Conditions, Jonathan H. Adler

Faculty Publications

Conventional environmentalist thought is suspicious of private markets and property rights. The prospect of global climate change, and consequent ecological disruptions, has fueled the call for additional limitations on private markets and property rights. This Essay presents an alternative view. Specifically, this Essay briefly explains why environmental problems generally, and the prospect of changing environmental conditions such as those brought about by climate change in particular, do not counsel further restrictions on private property rights and markets. To the contrary, the prospect of significant environmental changes strengthens the case for greater reliance on property rights and market institutions to address …


The Water Marketing Solution, Mark Squillace Jan 2012

The Water Marketing Solution, Mark Squillace

Publications

No abstract provided.


Heeding The Clarion Call For Sustainable, Spiritual Western Landscapes: Will The People Be Granted A New Forest Service?, Charles Wilkinson, Daniel Cordalis Jan 2012

Heeding The Clarion Call For Sustainable, Spiritual Western Landscapes: Will The People Be Granted A New Forest Service?, Charles Wilkinson, Daniel Cordalis

Publications

No abstract provided.