Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "Ruhl, J.B."
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4°C Ruhl, J.B.; Craig, Robin K. (Minnesota Law Review, 2021)In March 2020, while the world's attention was focused on the coronavirus pandemic, an international team of eighty-nine polar scientists from fifty organizations reported that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six ...
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Ruhl, J.B.; Robisch, Kyle (William & Mary Law Review, 2016)Discretion is the root source of administrative agency power and influence, but exercising discretion often requires agencies to undergo costly and time-consuming pre-decision assessment programs, such as under the Endangered ...
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Ruhl, J.B.; Salzman, James (Environmental Law Reporter, 2001)Over the last decade, there has been a sea change in environmental law and policy, marked by growing interest in market-based instruments of environmental protection. In particular, approaches that explicitly commodify ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy, 2020)Despite the heavy emphasis in legal scholarship on federal and state governance of environmental policy, cities have had their champions as well. Legal scholars who stand out as having defined a position for local governance ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment, 2010)This Article has been in press for several months without opportunity for updating, and thus does not reflect EPA’s Clean Air Act rule promulgations and several other relevant events. Nevertheless, the basic thrust of the ...
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Ruhl, J.B.; Craig, Robin Kundis (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2014)Administrative law needs to adapt to adaptive management. Adaptive management is a structured decision-making method the core of which is a multi-step iterative process for adjusting management measures to changing ...
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Cosens, Barbara A.; Ruhl, J.B.; Soininen, Niko; Gunderson, Lance (2020)This Article contributes to the development of adaptive governance theory by articulating and situating the role of formal law and government as the facilitator, but not central controller, of adaptive governance. To advance ...
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Ruhl, J.B.; Posner, Stephen M.; Ricketts, Taylor H. (PLoS One, 2019)Many scientific researchers aspire to engage policy in their writing, but translating scientific research and findings into policy discussion often requires an understanding of the institutional complexities of legal and ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Natural Resources & Environment, 2017)Pipelines to the north. Walls to the south. Between President Trump's issuance of a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline crossing from Canada and his promise to build "The Wall," the politics of our national borders rarely ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Environmental Law Reporter, 2001)Farms and farming are intrinsically linked with human civilization, and have had a dramatic impact on our planet's landscape and environmental systems. Environmental regulation in the United States, though young when ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, 2002)Second in my series of articles on farming and environmental policy, this article examines farmland stewardship rhetoric in light of the reality of extensive agricultural exemptions from environmental regulation.
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Ruhl, J.B.; Salzman, James (University of Queensland Law Journal, 2020)This article assesses the approaches that different national governments have employed to provide and conserve ecosystem services, focusing on policy instruments and common-law court decisions. Applying the lessons learned ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law and Technology, 2020)Cascade failures are events in networked systems with interconnected components in which failure of one or a few parts triggers the failure of other parts, which triggers the failure of more parts, and so on. Cascade ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)This Article explores the intersection of utility-scale wind power development and the Endangered Species Act, which thus far has not been as happy a union as one might expect. Part I provides background on how the ESA and ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Chicago-Kent Law Review, 2018)So, what is one to do about The Tarlock Effect? It didn't take long for me to realize early in my academic career-well before my foray into climate change adaptation policy-that there's just no escaping it. So I learned ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Natural Resources Journal, 1988)Arbitrary political boundaries are no barrier at all to the physical effects of pollution and resource development. Yet, despite the optimism that ushered in the heightened environmental consciousness of the past several ...
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Ruhl, J.B.; Salzman, James (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2020)"Wicked problems." It just says it all. Persistent social problems--poverty, food insecurity, climate change, drug addiction, pollution, and the list goes on--seem aptly condemned as wicked. But what makes them wicked, and ...
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Ruhl, J.B.; DeCaro, Daniel A.; Chaffin, Brian C.; Schlager, Edella; Garmestani, Ahjond S. (Ecology and Society, 2017)Legal and institutional structures fundamentally shape opportunities for adaptive governance of environmental resources at multiple ecological and societal scales. Properties of adaptive governance are widely studied. ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Houston Law Review, 1996)This article examines the field of environmental law as a potential minefield for malpractice claims given its complex and dynamic nature. The article outlines principles for malpractice law applied to environmental law, ...
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Ruhl, J.B. (Ecology and Society, 2012)Panarchy theory focuses on improving theories of change in natural and social systems to improve the design of policy responses. Its central thesis is that successfully working with the dynamic forces of complex adaptive ...