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Law and the Environment: A Multi-disciplinary Reader brings together for the first time some of the most important original work on environmental policy by scientists, ecologists, philosophers, historians, economists, and legal scholars. Each of the book's four parts provides a different focus on the nature and scope of environmental problems and attempts to use public policy to address these concerns. Part I examines how ecology, economics, and ethics analyze environmental problems and why they support collective action to respond to them. Part II examines the history and present state of environmental law, from early attempts to engage the government to the current debate over the effectiveness of environmental policy. Part III explores the process by which environmental law gets translated into regulatory policy. Part IV considers the future of environmental law at a time when international environmental concerns have become a major force in global diplomacy and international trade agreements.
In drawing together a wide variety of perspectives on these issues, Robert V. Percival and Dorothy C. Alevizatos offer a comprehensive examination of how society has responded to the difficult challenges posed by environmental problems. The selections provide a rich introduction to the complexities of environmental policy disputes.
About the Authors:
Robert V. Percival is Professor of Law, Robert Stanton Scholar and Director of the Environmental Law Program of the University of Maryland School of Law. He is the principal author of Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, and numerous articles on law and the environment.
Dorothy C. Alevizatos is an environmental lawyer with a Baltimore law firm. She has an M.S. in conservation biology from the University of Maryland.
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Alf Rodriguez
reviewed Law And The Environment: A Multidisciplinary Reader on November 08, 2011
Law And The Environment
There are no Sacred Cows for Sagoff. He brings all the skepticism of a philosopher to bear on the environmental movement. The result is a dismantling of many of its long-held truths, a deep investigation into the relationship between man and nature, and a defense of nature's aesthetic relation to man as its primary value-- one which cannot be translated into dollars (or Willingness To Pay).
Since this book reversed many of my views on the subject and gave me plenty of food for thought, I have to recommend it to everyone, particularly environmentalists, conservationists and leftists. All such folks (particularly the latter) are likely to greet a text like this with suspicion. Be as suspicious as you like: you'll find nothing but good reasoning and wide reading in Sagoff's writing. If some of what we hold to be true on the topic is not, then it's time to modify our position to be as effective as possible.
Most of all, I recommend this text to anyone who languishes in misery at a future of impending ecological collapse, overpopulation or resource exhaustion. There is none of that stupid ad hoc optimism we so often see justifying the status quo in this book. There is rather a healthy, honest introspection on what's really going on. All the better if you should feel a little less miserable upon figuring that out.
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