Beyond Environmental Law: Policy Proposals for a Better Environmental Future

Cambridge University Press, 5/6/2010
EAN 9780521744324, ISBN10: 0521744326

Paperback, 304 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English

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.

Introduction David M. Driesen and Alyson C. Flournoy
Part I. National Environmental Legacy Act
1. The case for a national environmental legacy act Alyson C. Flournoy
2. The necessity of procedural reform Sidney Shapiro
3. Shifting baselines and backsliding benchmarks
the need for a national environmental legacy act to address the ecologies of restoration, resilience, and reconciliation Thomas T. Ankersen and Kevin E. Regan
4. Valuing nature
the challenge of a national environmental legacy act Mary Jane Angelo and Mark T. Brown
5. Citizen science and the next generation of environmental law Christine Overdevest and Brian Mayer
6. Creating NELA information
the double standard Walter A. Rosenbaum
7. The constitution and our debt to the future Rena Steinzor
Part II. Environmental Competition Statute
8. An environmental competition statute David M. Driesen
9. Climate change, federalism, and promoting technological change David E. Adelman
10. The iUtility Joseph P. Tomain
11. Environmental patriotism Christine A. Klein.