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The Conservation Constitution

Author : Kimberly K. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780700628445

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Over the course of the twentieth century, the United States emerged as a global leader in conservation policy—negotiating the first international conservation treaties, pioneering the idea of the national park, and leading the world in creating a modern environmental regulatory regime. And yet, this is a country famously committed to the ideals of limited government, decentralization, and strong protection of property rights. How these contradictory values have been reconciled, not always successfully, is what Kimberly K. Smith sets out to explain in The Conservation Constitution—a book that brings to light the roots of contemporary constitutional conflict over environmental policy. In the mid-nineteenth century, most Progressive Era conservation policies would have been considered unconstitutional. Smith traces how, between 1870 and 1930, the conservation movement reshaped constitutional doctrine to its purpose—how, specifically, courts and lawyers worked to expand government authority to manage wildlife, forest and water resources, and pollution. Her work, which highlights a number of important Supreme Court decisions often overlooked in accounts of this period, brings the history of environmental management more fully into the story of the US Constitution. At the same time, illuminating the doctrinal innovation in the Progressives’ efforts, her book reveals the significance of constitutional history to an understanding of the government’s role in environmental management.

The Conservation of the Constitution

Author : Oliver Ernesto Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Constitutions
ISBN : HARVARD:32044053635678

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Constitution

Author : Australian Conservation Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0858020408

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The Environmental Rights Revolution

Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774821636

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The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around the question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law? David Boyd answers this by moving beyond theoretical debates to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right in constitutions. His pioneering analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100 nations in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa reveals a positive correlation between constitutional protection and stronger environmental laws, smaller ecological footprints, superior environmental performance, and improved quality of life.

Global Environmental Constitutionalism

Author : James R. May,Erin Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107022256

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Global Environmental Constitutionalism by James R. May,Erin Daly Pdf

Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to healthy air, water, and land and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights. This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a proper subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts. This phenomenon, which the authors call environmental constitutionalism, represents the confluence of constitutional law, international law, human rights, and environmental law. National apex and constitutional courts are exhibiting a growing interest in environmental rights, and as courts become more aware of what their peers are doing, this momentum is likely to increase. This book explains why such provisions came into being, how they are expressed, and the extent to which they have been, and might be, enforced judicially. It is a singular resource for evaluating the content of and hope for constitutional environmental rights.

Constitution of the Tasmanian Conservation Trust

Author : Tasmanian Conservation Trust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 0959981616

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Revised Constitution of American Samoa

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Supply
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : American Samoa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045276370

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The Right to a Healthy Environment

Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774824156

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The Right to a Healthy Environment by David R. Boyd Pdf

Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada's green record. This important and provocative book provides a road map to protect human health, the well-being of the planet, and the interests of future generations.

The Green Amendment

Author : Maya K. Van Rossum,Rossum Maya van
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 1633310213

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2017 INDIE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FINALIST "A rallying cry . . . Everyone who is concerned about the welfare of all species, including human beings. Please read this important book." --Richard Louv, chairman emeritus of the Children & Nature Network and author of LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS and THE NATURE PRINCIPLE The Constitutional Change We Need to Protect Our Priceless Natural Resources For decades, activists have relied on federal and state legislation to fight for a cleaner environment. And for decades, they've been fighting a losing battle. The sad truth is, our laws are designed to accommodate pollution rather than prevent it. It's no wonder people feel powerless when it comes to preserving the quality of their water, air, public parks, and special natural spaces. But there is a solution, argues veteran environmentalist Maya K. van Rossum: bypass the laws and turn to the ultimate authority--our state and federal constitutions. In 2013, van Rossum and her team won a watershed legal victory that not only protected Pennsylvania communities from ruthless frackers but affirmed the constitutional right of people in the state to a clean and healthy environment. Following this victory, van Rossum inaugurated the Green Amendment movement, dedicated to empowering every American community to mobilize for constitutional change. Now, with The Green Amendment, van Rossum lays out an inspiring new agenda for environmental advocacy, one that will finally empower people, level the playing field, and provide real hope for communities everywhere. Readers will discover how legislative environmentalism has failed communities across America, the transformational difference environmental constitutionalism can make, the economic imperative of environmental constitutionalism, and how to take action in their communities. We all have the right to pure water, clean air, and a healthy environment. It's time to claim that right--for our own sake and that of future generations.

Environmental Rights

Author : Stephen J. Turner,Dinah L. Shelton,Jona Razzaque,Owen McIntyre,James R. May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108482240

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A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

The Constitution Besieged

Author : Howard Gillman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822316420

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The Constitution Besieged offers a compelling reinterpretation of one of the most notorious periods in American constitutional history. In the decades following the Civil War, federal and state judges struck down as unconstitutional a great deal of innovative social and economic legislation. Scholars have traditionally viewed this as the work of a conservative judiciary more interested in promoting laissez-faire economics than in interpreting the Constitution. Howard Gillman challenges this scholarly orthodoxy by showing how these judges were in fact observing a long-standing constitutional prohibition against "class legislation." By reviewing unfamiliar state cases and legal commentary, and by providing fresh interpretations of familiar Supreme Court cases, Gillman uncovers a fascinating - and long forgotten - legal tradition. In this richly textured historical narrative, we see how American judges once worked to insure that legislative power be used only to promote the public good, and not to benefit certain classes or burden their market competitors. Beyond shedding new light on this jurisprudence, Gillman also links it to larger debates in the political system, debates traced to concerns about factional politics expressed by the country's founders and to the Jacksonian assault on special privileges. This tradition came under siege with the intensification of class conflict at the turn of the century, and Gillman carefully documents its demise. He details how industrialization undermined assumptions about the fairness of capitalist social relations, and how this led increasing numbers of people to question the requirement that the state remain neutral in matters of class conflict - thus leaving it to a stalwart judiciary to protect "a Constitution besieged." A major contribution to an understanding of this important period in the history of the Supreme Court, Gillman's work stands as a landmark in revisionist accounts of the "Lochner era." Gillman's study represents the kind of paradigm-shift that will undoubtedly affect a wide range of scholarly activity for some time to come. The broad scope of this work makes it essential reading for those interested in American political thought, the development of the American state, the relationship between law and social change, and contemporary debates about the original intent of the framers of the Constitution and the proper role of the judiciary in American politics.

Judicial Handbook on Environmental Law

Author : Dinah Shelton,Alexandre Charles Kiss
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789280725551

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Judicial Handbook on Environmental Law by Dinah Shelton,Alexandre Charles Kiss Pdf

"This handbook is intended to enable national judges in all types of tribunals in both civil law and common law jurisdictions to identify environmental issues coming before them and to be aware of the range of options available to them in interpreting and applying the law. It seeks to provide judges with a practical guide to basic environmental issues that are likely to arise in litigation. It includes information on international and comparative environmental law and references to relevant cases."--P. iii.

Land Use and Wildlife Resources

Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Agricultural Land Use and Wildlife Resources
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NAP:14619

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Land Use and Wildlife Resources by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Agricultural Land Use and Wildlife Resources Pdf

Historical perspective. Wildlife values in a Changing World. New patterns on land and water. Influence of land management on wildlife. Special problems of waters and watersheds. Pesticides and wildlife. Wildlife demage and control. Legislation and administration. Evaluation and Conclusions.