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Adaptive Management in the Courts
(Minnesota Law Review, 2010)
Adaptive management has become the tonic of natural resources policy. With its core idea of "learning while doing," adaptive management has infused the natural resources policy world to the point of ubiquity, surfacing in ...
Governing for Sustainable Coasts: Complexity, Climate Change, and Coastal Ecosystem Protection
(Sustainability, 2010)
The world’s coastal ecosystems are among the most complex on Earth, and they
are currently being governed unsustainably, by any definition. Climate change will only
add to this complexity, underscoring the necessity of ...
Climate Change, Dead Zones, and Massive Problems in the Administrative State: A Guide for Whittling Away
(California Law Review, 2010)
Mandates that agencies solve massive problems such as sprawl and climate change roll easily out of the halls of legislatures, but as a practical matter what can any one agency do about them? Serious policy challenges such ...
Ecosystem Services and the Clean Water Act: Strategies for Fitting New Science into Old Law
(Environmental Law, 2010)
This Article explores the administrative reform potential that exists for integrating new knowledge about ecosystem services into Clean Water Act (CWA) regulatory programs as an example for all environmental laws. Part II ...
Climate Change Adaptation and the Structural Transformation of Environmental Law
(Environmental Law, 2010)
The path of environmental law has come to a cliff called climate change, and there is no turning around. As climate change policy dialogue emerged in the 1990s, however, the perceived urgency of attention to mitigation ...
Ecosystem Services and Federal Public Lands: Start-up Policy Questions and Research Needs
(Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2010)
This Essay, based on a presentation at Duke Law School’s 2009 symposium, Next Generation Conservation: The Government's Role in Emerging Ecosystem Service Markets, briefly examines the emerging policy front of ecosystem ...
Background Principles, Takings, and Libertarian Property: A Reply to Professor Huffman
(Ecology Law Quarterly, 2010)
One of the principal, if unexpected, results of the Supreme Court's 1992 decision in "Lucas v. South Carolina" Coastal Commission is the rise of background principles of property and nuisance law as a categorical defense ...