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1 online resource (xvi, 318 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-294) and index. |
| Contents |
Time, space, and ecological injury -- The implications of ecological injury for environmental protection law -- The challenges for U.S. lawmaking institutions and processes of environmental protection law -- Becoming environmental law -- Building a road : the 1970s -- Expanding the road : the 1980s -- Maintaining the road : the 1990s -- The emerging architecture of U.S. environmental law -- Changing conceptions of time and space redux : environmental law's future challenges -- Environmental law's second (and quite different) "republican moment" -- Conclusion : the graying of the green. |
| Summary |
The unprecedented expansion in environmental regulation over the past thirty years--at all levels of government--signifies a transformation of our nation's laws that is both palpable and encouraging. Environmental laws now affect almost everything we do, from the cars we drive and the places we live to the air we breathe and the water we drink. But while enormous strides have been made since the 1970s, gaps in the coverage, implementation, and enforcement of the existing laws still leave much work to be done. In The Making of Environmental Law, Richard J. Lazarus offers a new interpretation of t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Environmental law -- United States.
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Environmental law. |
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United States. |
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Environmental law -- United States -- History.
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History. |
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Environmental protection -- United States.
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Environmental protection. |
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Environmental protection -- United States -- History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- History.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lazarus, Richard J. Making of environmental law. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004 0226470377 9780226470375 (DLC) 2004002971 (OCoLC)54400499 |
| ISBN |
9780226470641 (electronic book) |
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0226470644 (electronic book) |
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9780226470375 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226470377 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226470377 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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