A Tale of Two Cities: Climate Policy in Münster and Dresden
Cindy Sturm looks at differences in climate-related policymaking Münster and Dresden.
Cindy Sturm looks at differences in climate-related policymaking Münster and Dresden.
This article investigates the problem of defining technological change based on environmental sustainability criteria in Galicia.
The authors provide an empirical study of the conservation strategy adopted in the northern Sierra Madre, the Philippines, and criticize the assumptions behind the main legalistic interventions.
Bas Verschuuren reviews the book World Heritage Sites and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, edited by Stefan Disko and Helen Tugehndhat.
Erin Ryan shares her work on negotiated federalism, exploring how good multiscalar governance is often the product of intergovernmental bargaining among decision makers at various levels of government.
This article tells the epic tale of the fall and rise of Mono Lake— the strange and beautiful Dead Sea of California—which fostered some of the most important environmental law developments of the last century.
Erin Ryan argues that environmental law is uniquely prone to federalism discord because it inevitably confronts the core question with which federalism grapples—who gets to decide?—in contexts where state and federal claims to power are simultaneously at their strongest.
In the United States, debate over the responsibilities of different levels of government are framed within our system of constitutional federalism, which divides sovereign power between the central federal administration and regional states. Dilemmas about devolution have been erupting in all regulatory contexts, but environmental governance remains uniquely prone to federalism discord because it inevitably confronts the core question with which federalism grapples—“who gets to decide?”— in contexts where state and federal claims to power are simultaneously at their strongest.
This article investigates forest policy in the period of dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in Greece.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, David R. Boyd is interviewed on his recent book, The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World.