Title: Biology, culture, and environmental law /
Authors: McGuire, Michael T.,; Rehbinder, Manfred; Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research
Date: 1993
Publisher: Duncker & Humblot,
Physical description: 268 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: K
Contents: Introduction: Can biology inform environmental law? / Michael T. McGuire and Manfred Rehbinder -- Environmental protection : the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach / Zdenek Madar -- Ethology and environmental law / Margaret Gruter -- Economics and the environment : the case for tradeable emission permits / Hans Rudolf Trüeb -- Environmental protection, improvement, and the biology of behavior / Michael T. McGuire -- Developments in the field of environmental liability and insurance within the EEC and especially in Germany / Ulf D. Lemor -- The new German act on strict liability for environmental damage : some internalization of negative external effects / Michael Lehmann -- Property rights and environmental prospects in post-Communism / Andras Sajo -- Ecological problems in the USSR, as seen by state and the public / Sergei Zalygin -- Experience from an independent examination of the design flood-control works in Leningrad (The Leningrad dike) / A.S. Mishchenko -- Ecological state of the soils in the Aral Basin : sources-and scope of the crisis / N.G. Minashina -- The Aral crisis and departmental interests / M.I. Zelikin and A.S. Demidov -- Ecological crisis in the north-western Caspian area and an agricultural and ecological alternative program to develop the region / B.V. Vinogradov -- The environmental laws of the United States : poison to be shunned or nourishment to be embraced? / William H. Rodgers, Jr. -- The evolution of American environmental regulation : the impact of political structure and culture on the substance of the law / Susan Low Bloch -- Modeling legal compliance for environmental law using concepts from biology / Michael T. McGuire.
Notes: Proceedings of a conference of the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research held in Tauberbischofsheim in 1991.
Subject headings (LCSH): Culture and law--Congresses.; Culture and law.; Environmental law--Congresses; Environmental law.; Law and biology--Congresses.; Law and biology.