Preface

Introduction

Part I: Perspectives on Environmental Problems

1. ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

George Perkins Marsh

The Earth as Modified by Human Action (1877)

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac (1949)

Eugene P. Odum

Fundamentals of Ecology (1959)

Edward O. Wilson

The Diversity of Life (1992)

A. Dan Tarlock

The Nonequilibrium Paradigm in Ecology and the Partial Unraveling of Environmental Law (1994)

2. ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

H. Scott Gordon

The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery (1954)

Arthur F. McEvoy

The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980 (1986)

Ronald H. Coase

The Problem of Social Cost (1960)

Mark Sagoff

The Economy of the Earth (1988)

Carol M. Rose

Environmental Faust Succumbs to Temptations of Economic Mephistopheles, or, Value by Any Other Name Is Preference (1989)

Daniel A. Farber

Paul A. Hemmersbaugh

The Shadow of the Future: Discount Rates, Later Generations, and the Environment (1993)

3. ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES

Lynn White, Jr.

The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis (1967)

Laurence H. Tribe

Ways Not to Think about Plastic Trees: New Foundations for Environmental Law (1974)

Tom Regan

The Case for Animal Rights (1983)

J. Baird Callicott

Review of Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (1985)

Arne Naess

The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects (1986)

4. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Robert D. Bullard

The Threat of Environmental Racism (1993)

George F. Will

The Poison Poor Children Breathe (1982)

Robert W. Collin

Environmental Equity: A Law and Planning Approach to Environmental Racism (1992)

Vicki Been

Locally Undesirable Land Uses in Minority Neighborhoods: Disproportionate Siting or Market Dynamics? (1994)

First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit

Principles of Environmental Justice (1991)

Richard J. Lazarus

The Meaning and Promotion of Environmental Justice (1994)

Part II: Environmental Law and Regulatory Policy

5. ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Joel Franklin Brenner

Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution (1974)

Roderick Nash

Wilderness and the American Mind (1982)

David Rosner

Gerald Markowitz

A "Gift of God"?: The Public Health Controversy over Leaded Gasoline during the 1920s (1985)

Philip Shabecoff

A Fierce Green Fire (1993)

6. THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION

Robert L. Rabin

Federal Regulation in Historical Perspective (1986)

E. Donald Elliott

Bruce A. Ackerman

John C. Millian

Toward a Theory of Statutory Evolution: The Federalization of Environmental Law (1985)

Daniel A. Farber

Politics and Procedure in Environmental Law (1992)

Samuel P. Hays

Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985 (1987)

William H. Rodgers, Jr.

The Lesson of the Owl and the Crows: The Role of Deception in the Evolution of the Environmental Statutes (1989)

7. ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: A STRUCTURAL OVERVIEW

Robert V. Percival

Alan S. Miller

Christopher H. Schroeder

James P. Leape

Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy (1996)

William F. Pederson, Jr.

Why the Clean Air Act Works Badly (1981)

Robert V. Percival

Alan S. Miller

Christopher H. Schroeder

James P. Leape

Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy (1996)

Richard L. Revesz

Rehabilitating Interstate Competition: Rethinking the "Race-to-the-Bottom" Rationale for Federal Environmental Regulation (1992)

Peter W. Huber

Safety and the Second Best: The Hazards of Public Risk Management in the Courts (1985)

Clayton P. Gillette

James E. Krier

Risk, Courts, and Agencies (1990)

8. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO REGULATION

Bruce A. Ackerman

Richard B. Stewart

Reforming Environmental Law: The Democratic Case for Market Incentives (1988)

Howard A. Latin

Ideal Versus Real Regulatory Efficiency: Implementation of Uniform Standards and "Fine-Tuning" Regulatory Reforms (1985)

Sidney A. Shapiro

Thomas O. McGarity

Not So Paradoxical: The Rationale for Technology-Based Regulation (1991)

Carol M. Rose

Rethinking Environmental Controls: Management Strategies for Common Resources (1991)

Office of Technology Assessment

Environmental Policy Tools: A User's Guide (1995)

President's Council on Sustainable Development

Sustainable America: A New Consensus--Building a New Framework for a New Century (1996)

Part III: The Regulatory Process in a Participatory Democracy

9. WHO SPEAKS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?

Edward Abbey

The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

Thomas R. Dunlap

DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy (1981)

Joseph L. Sax

Defending the Environment: A Strategy for Citizen Action (1971)

Christopher D. Stone

Should Trees Have Standing?--Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1972)

10. THE REGULATORY PROCESS

James A. Henderson

Richard N. Pearson

Implementing Federal Environmental Policies: The Limits of Aspirational Commands (1978)

William H. Rodgers, Jr.

The Seven Statutory Wonders of U.S. Environmental Law: Origins and Morphology (1994)

Howard A. Latin

Regulatory Failure, Administrative Incentives, and the New Clean Air Act (1991)

11. RISK ASSESSMENT AND REGULATORY PRIORITIES

William D. Ruckelshaus

Risk in a Free Society (1984)

David Doniger

The Gospel of Risk Management: Should We Be Converted? (1984)

Richard B. Stewart

The Role of the Courts in Risk Management (1986)

Donald T. Hornstein

Reclaiming Environmental Law: A Normative Critique of Comparative Risk Analysis (1992)

Part IV: Global Environmental Concerns and the Future of Environmental Law

12. INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Lynton Keith Caldwell

International Environmental Policy: Emergence and Dimensions (1990)

World Commission on Environment and Development

Our Common Future (1987)

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

Declaration of Principles (1992)

Gene M. Grossman

Alan B. Krueger

Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement (1991)

Herman Daly

From Adjustment to Sustainable Development: The Obstacle of Free Trade (1992)

President's Council on Sustainable Development

Sustainable America: A New Consensus--International Leadership (1996)

13. THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY

William D. Ruckelshaus

Stopping the Pendulum (1995)

Gregg Easterbrook

A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism (1995)

Environmental Defense Fund

A Moment of Truth: Correcting the Scientific Errors in Gregg Easterbrook's A Moment on the Earth (1995)

Al Gore

Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992)

Robert W. Hahn

Toward a New Environmental Paradigm (1993)

Christopher D. Stone

The Gnat Is Older Than Man: Global Environmental and the Human Agenda (1993)

Contributors

Index