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Adapting to High-Level Warming: Law, Governance, and Equity
In seeking and analyzing climate solutions, most legal scholarship assumes a 2°C warming as the upper bound of temperature change. Yet robust science increasingly tells us a different story: warming beyond 2°C is likely, and warming as high as 3°–4°C by the end of the 21st century is a real possibility. Warming of this magnitude would have significant impacts on people.
Mud Lake
Mud Lake is a collection of short adventure stories about children living in Haslett, Michigan, during the 1960s and 70s, when kids were allowed to freely explore the natural world without adult instruction or supervision.
PFAS Deskbook
From cookware to dental floss to stain-resistant fabrics, PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, pervade modern life. PFAS are a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals that have a variety of unique qualities that make them useful in industrial and consumer product applications.
Remarkable Cities and the Security and Sovereignty of Food and Nutrition: 41 Ways to Regenerate the Local Food System
Development is not sustainable if it fails to create and support food and nutrition secure and self-supporting neighborhoods. Development impacts many aspects of the food system, including where food is grown, how far food must travel before it is consumed, where distributors and retailers of food are placed, and who has access to fresh and nutritious food.
Principal Trends on Brazilian Environmental Law
With its massive size, rich biodiversity, and unique location, Brazil plays an essential role when it comes to the health of our planet. Understanding how Brazil’s environmental laws, policies, and systems operate is therefore paramount.
Governing for Sustainability
Sustainable development may be one of the most important and potentially transformational ideas to come out of the last century. The ultimate objectives of sustainable development are freedom, opportunity, justice, and quality of life for everyone in this and future generations.
Toxic Intent: Environmental Harm, Corporate Crime, and the Criminal Enforcement of Federal Environmental Laws in the United States
Environmental crimes cause serious harm to humans, animals, and the natural environment in the United States. Yet our understanding of how they are investigated, prosecuted, and punished is at best fragmented and incomplete. What crimes has the U.S.
Environmental Justice: Legal Theory and Practice, 5th Edition
Race and socioeconomic status should not dictate the environmental health risks we face. Yet, too often this is not the case.
Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment: Treaties, Endangered Species, Dam Removal, Climate Change, and Beyond
The law and policy of salmon protection and restoration are complex, and matters surrounding salmon implicate topics as varied as Indian treaty fishing rights, dam management and removal, international treaties, predator control, and climate change.
Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture
Farming for Our Future examines the policies and legal reforms necessary to accelerate the adoption of practices that can make agriculture in the United States climate-neutral or better. These proven practices will also make our food system more resilient to the impacts of climate change.