| Main Title |
Environmental law and policy : a coursebook on nature, law, and society / |
| Author |
Plater, Zygmunt J. B.,
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| Other Authors |
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| Publisher |
West Pub. Co., |
| Year Published |
1992 |
| OCLC Number |
24796677 |
| ISBN |
031400341X; 9780314003416 |
| Subjects |
Environmental law--United States--Cases ;
Environmental policy--United States ;
Conservation of Natural Resources--legislation & jurisprudence ;
Ecologia
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EJBM |
KF3775.A7P55 1991 |
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Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
11/01/2002 |
| ELDM |
KF3775.A7P55 1991 |
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CCTE/GLTED Library/Duluth,MN |
09/22/2006 |
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| Collation |
xxxvii, 1039, 33 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Notes |
Accompanied by: Supplementary manual for teaching Environmental law and policy ... as a first law course (247 p.); Teacher's manual update (vii, 283 p.). Kept up to date by supplements. Includes bibliographical references (pages 16-26) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
pt. 1. Perspectives on environmental law: -- The enviromental perspective and a simple case -- Law and economics, uncertainty and risk, in environmental decision-making -- pt. 2. The foundation of environmental law: Traditional common law theories and fundamental issues of remedies and liabilities: -- Environmental torts and remedies: fitting environmental cases into common law theories: -- Toxic torts: beyond the traditional common law setting -- Environmental remedies drawn from other fields of law: corporate law, contracts, and property -- pt. 3. From common law to public law: the structure and power of government: -- The interplay of common law and statues. The force of the criminal law in environmental cases -- Fundamental environmental rights: federal and state constitutions, and the public trust doctrine -- Public powers and private property rights: constitutional authority -- Environmental issues in the division of authority between federal and state governments -- pt. 4. Environmental statutes and the administrative state, and a taxonomy of environmental statutes: -- The administraative law of environmental law -- NEPA, The National Enviromental Policy Act: a mandatory disclosure and stop and think statute -- Substantive roadblocks: section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, a stark prohibition statue -- Public resource management statutes -- Traditional review-and-permit process, and a survey of modern standard-setting approaches -- Regulatory control of market access: pesticides and toxics. Direct legislation of specific pollution standards, and technology-forcing: automobile air pollution -- Administrative standard-setting statutes: The Clean Air Act's harm-based ambient standards -- Administrative standards based on available technology: The Federal Clean Water Act -- Economic incentive and artificial pollution market statutes -- A statutory system for managing and funding environmental remediation: CERCLA (SUPERFUND) -- A composite approach to preventing releases of hazardous wastes: the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act -- Land-use-based enviromental control statutes -- pt. 5. Trends in environmental law: -- ADR: Alternative Dispute Resolution processes in environmental cases -- International environmental law. |
| Place Published |
St. Paul, Minn. |
| Title Ser Add Ent |
American casebook series. |
| PUB Date Free Form |
1992 |
| Series Title Traced |
American casebook series |
| Series Title Untraced |
American casebook series |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Medium |
unmediated |
| Content |
text |
| Carrier |
volume |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
91041577 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
20151221125521 |
| Language |
eng |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
04746cam 2200625 a 45020 |
