Creative Common Law Strategies for Protecting the Environment
Title | Creative Common Law Strategies for Protecting the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn L. Bergeson |
Publisher | Environmental Law Institute |
Total Pages | 449 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1585761109 |
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The Common Law and the Environment
Title | The Common Law and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Roger E. Meiners |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780847697090 |
Since 1970, when the Clean Air Act was passed and the Environmental Protection Agency was created, the primary means for addressing environmental problems in the U.S. has been through comprehensive federal statutes and detailed regulations. Evaluating almost three decades of experience with the Clean Air Act, Superfund, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and other major federal environmental statutes, the contributors to this volume question the effectiveness and impact of the legal regime that created these regulations. While most studies of environmental policy paint a picture of improvement through government initiatives, these essays argue the contrary. Pointing to Cleveland's burning river, the death of Lake Erie, smog in Los Angeles, and Love Canal, the contributors demonstrate that command-and-control regulation of the environment has not delivered the great improvements in environmental quality as promised. The Common Law and the Environment offers principles for a new approach to protecting the environment and looks to evidence of the successes of alternative legal systems to address significant problems.
Environmental Protection and the Common Law
Title | Environmental Protection and the Common Law PDF eBook |
Author | John Lowry |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2000-06-20 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1847310850 |
Within the broad framework of the common law of tort,the torts of nuisance and the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher are central to the protection of the rights of landowners to use and enjoy their land without unreasonable interference and to be free from material damage to their interests. Negligence actions can also serve to promote the protection of personal and property interests. Yet toxic torts are often seen as being beset by theoretical and practical drawbacks. Overall there are serious concerns about the continued value of common law principles as an effective and coherent system that is geared to protecting the environment. Environmental law is increasingly developing its own statutory regimes to address a range of environmental problems. This accentuates the sense in which the aims and reach of these two different branches of the law appear to be diverging. Questions inevitably arise about the inter-relationship between private law sphere of tort and public regulatory schemes. The contributors to this volume of essays include many of the UK's leading academics in the relevant fields of private and public law. While the essays are broadly based, the focus of the book is on the challenges posed by accommodating tort with environmental law.
Common Sense and Common Law for the Environment
Title | Common Sense and Common Law for the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Yandle |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Nuf-nuf! Educational AND fun for hours and hours! For kids ages 9 to 109. Large print. Word games, picture puzzles, logic puzzles, riddles, mazes, and more. 250 pages packed with intriguing and challenging puzzles! Journey through The World of Magic, Ancient Worlds, Future Worlds, the World Around You, the World of Words, the World of Logic, the World of Strange Things, and the World of Wise Things. New friends are there to help you on your way. Meet the gnome Walton Dalton, Drago the dragon, Princess Leela, Elvish the Elf, and the Tricky Troll brothers. Watch out for the Wizard of Words... he sneaked in dozens of Wizard Words for you to solve. Attend a holiday party, two password parties, and try some tricky brain teasers on for size. Make a paper airplane that can fly, a cup that can hold water, and fold an epic origami crane to amaze your friends and family. Put on your detective hat and solve mysteries: The Case of the Mi$$ing Money, Devious Dognappers, Burglary in the Millionaire's Mansion, and more. Wind your way through a maze of pyramids, a forest, an ancient castle, and outer space! Most of all... have lots of fun while learning new things. Nuf-Nuf!
Creative Common Law Strategies for Protecting the Environment
Title | Creative Common Law Strategies for Protecting the Environment PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 0 |
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Environmental common law litigation has reemerged in recent years as a powerful second pathway alongside statutory avenues for practitioners, communities, and governments to seek redress to environmental wrongs. Creative Common Law Strategies for Protecting the Environment vividly illustrates that "environmental common law" has never been more alive, and perhaps more needed for meeting complex environmental challenges, than it is today. This book provides an overview of the major common law remedies, and describes the limits of using statutory remedies under environmental citizen suit provisions. The authors describe their experiences in bringing cutting-edge public nuisance actions against car manufacturers and large power producers because of their greenhouse gas emissions; successful products liability actions against the manufacturers of PERC and MTBE for groundwater contamination; path-breaking litigation filed by public entities against the lead paint industry; lawsuits under the public trust doctrine and other common law doctrines to protect water, fish, and wildlife . . . and much more.
Environmental Litigation
Title | Environmental Litigation PDF eBook |
Author | Kegan A. Brown |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Environmental law |
ISBN | 9781641053662 |
The Role of the Common Law in Defining and Protecting the Environment
Title | The Role of the Common Law in Defining and Protecting the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Steven J. Eagle |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 86 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Common law |
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