Environment Law

Until now, an approach to land use management planning that not only addresses economic issues, but also environmental concerns and health issues o...

Preventing risks of severe damage from climate change not only requires deep cuts in developed country greenhouse gas emissions, but enormous amoun...

Answering the key question of whether there is an obligation for States to define and enact sound climate policies in order to avoid the impacts of...

As Hurricane Katrina vividly revealed, disaster policy in the United States is broken and needs reform. What can we learn from past disasters—storm...

What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regula...

From Eisenhower to Obama, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the policies Congress and the president have proposed and passed to protec...

After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presid...

Drawing insight from a diverse array of sources — including moral philosophy, political theory, cognitive psychology, ecology, and science and tech...

This discerning book examines the challenges, opportunities and solutions for courts adjudicating on environmental cases. It offers a critical anal...

So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies is a...

This edited volume is a comprehensive examination of the legal framework in which environmental policy is fashioned in the major English-speaking f...

Based on interviews with key EPA decision makers and an analysis of the public record, this informative case study demonstrates how the contemporar...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

Examining the existing legal framework for ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR), this forward-thinking book highlights potential legal challenges and...

During this century, hundreds of billions of pounds of pesticides have been released to the global environment. How are we exposed to them? What ca...

When the first edition of this book was published in 1977—to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim—it was the only publication to analyze wildl...

When the first edition of this book was published in 1977—to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim—it was the only publication to analyze wildl...

Authorities in the fields of environmental and international law and policy, political science, environmental technology, and public administration...

Virtually every city in the nation's older industrial regions, no matter its size, grapples with the challenge of unused or abandoned manufacturing...

In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather t...