Beyond Environmental Law

This book offers a vision for the third generation of environmental law designed to enhance its ability to protect our environment. The book presents two core proposals, an Environmental Legacy Act to preserve a defined environmental legacy for future generations and an Environmental Competition Statute to spark movement to new clean technologies. The first proposal would require, for the first time, that the federal government define an environmental legacy that it must preserve for future generations. The second would establish a market competition to maximize environmental protection. The balance of the book provides complementary proposals and analysis. The first generation of environmental law sought broad protection of health and the environment in a fairly fragmented way. The second sought to enhance environmental law's efficiency through cost-benefit analysis and market mechanisms. These proposals seek to create a broader, more creative approach to solving environmental problems.

ISBN 0521767717   Pages 304 ISBN13 9780521767712 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 590 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Height (mm) 228 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 152 Publication date 26 Feb 2010   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY 344.046   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		List of Figure and Tables
Pt. I		National Environmental Legacy Act
1		The Case for the National Environmental Legacy Act by Alyson C. Flournoy		3
2		The Necessity of Procedural Reform by Sidney Shapiro		37
3		Shifting Baselines and Backsliding Benchmarks: The Need for the National Environmental Legacy Act to Address the Ecologies of Restoration, Resilience, and Reconciliation by Thomas T. Ankersen and Kevin E. Regan		53
4		Valuing Nature: The Challenge of the National Environmental Legacy Act by Mark T. Brown and Mary Jane Angelo		81
5		Citizen Science and the Next Generation of Environmental Law by Christine Overdevest and Brian Mayer		109
6		Creating National Environmental Legacy Act Information: The Double Standard by Walter A. Rosenbaum		129
7		The Constitution and Our Debt to the Future by Rena Steinzor		145
Pt. II		Environmental Competition Statute
8		An Environmental Competition Statute by David M. Driesen		173
9		Climate Change, Federalism, and Promoting Technological Change by David E. Adelman		199
10		The iUtility by Joseph P. Tomain		223
11		Environmental Patriotism by Christine A. Klein		249
		Index		269

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