Environmental law and policy
Subtitle: nature, law, and society
By: Zygmunt J.B. Plater, Boston College Law School ; Robert H. Abrams, Florida A & M University ; Robert L. Graham, Jenner & Block, Chicago ; Lisa Heinzerling, Georgetown University Law Center ; David A. Wirth, Boston College Law School ; Noah D. Hall, Wayne State University Law School
Contributors: Abrams, Robert H., 1948- author; Graham, Robert L. (Lawyer), author; Heinzerling, Lisa, author; Wirth, David A., author; Hall, Noah D., author
Edition: Fifth edition.
Series: Aspen casebook series; Aspen casebook series
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1083
ISBN-13: 9781454868408
Subjects: Environmental law; Cases; Environmental policy; Case studies; Environmental protection
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxiii) and index.
Table of contents: title: Basic themes in environmentalism; title: Cross-cutting themes in environmental law; title: The common law in modern environmental law; title: The special challenges of toxic tort litigation; title: An overview of environmental regulation in the United States; title: The administrative law of environmental law : the law of administrative agencies; title: Sovereignty in the environmental law context; title: Federal agency disclosure : NEPA's stop-and-think logic and the power of information; title: Public planning as a management tool : governmental oversight of private & public resource use, and the challenge of adaptive management; title: Roadblock statutory strategies & the Endangered Species Act : stark prohibitions and their viability; title: From harm-based standards to tech-based standards : the Clean Air Act; title: Technology-based standard setting : the Clean Water Act using cost-benefit analysis in agency rulemakings & review of regulations; title: Market-enlisting strategies : achieving environmental protection through pollution trading and other economic incentives; title: Front-end strategies : market entry controls, pollution prevention, toxic use reduction; title: Remedial liability regulatory strategies : CERCLA; title: Lifecycle regulatory strategies : RCRA; title: Evolving patterns of enforcement and compliance; title: Environmental criminal law; title: Public environmental rights and duties : the public trust doctrine; title: Private property and public rights : constitutional limits on physical and regulatory takings; title: International and comparative environmental law.