This study analyzes the initial implementation of the Sustainable Slopes Program a voluntary environmental initiative established by the U.S. National Ski Areas Association in partnership with federal and state government agencies. Our findings indicate that participation of western ski areas in...

In this article, "things" lawyers call "principles" of environmental law will be discussed from a theoretical perspective. Three fundamental questions are answered: 1. Where does the high moral value that is usually attributed principles come from? 2. What is the exact difference between a...

On September 30, 2016, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a report entitled "Environmental Justice: Examining the Environmental Protection Agency's Compliance and Enforcement of Title VI and Executive Order 12,898." This Dissenting Statement, written by Commissioner Gail Heriot, was...

This essay reviews two books written by leading scholars that express profound dissatisfaction with the ability of environmental law to actually protect the environment. Mary Wood's “Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age” calls for “deep change in environmental law,”...

In designing a recycling policy, the regulator must choose between multiple instruments. Our study seeks to address the linkage between the choice of regulatory instruments and institutional frameworks, people's intrinsic motivation, and various attitudinal measures. We examined the behavioral...

This article inputs into a research project on the law's approach to geophysical phenomena of full movement – full movement that is produced by man but which man is unable to control. The concept of full movement beyond control can be illustrated in several domains. The more specific areas of...

Today there is widespread dissatisfaction with many aspects of federal environmental law. The apparent success of early environmental regulations notwithstanding, many analysts and academics have begun to reexamine the potential of common law causes of action to supplement, if not supplant,...

Environmental justice is a notion coined in the U.S. in an attempt to protect the environments of minorities whose neighbourhoods had been used to store hazardous waste. Attempts have been made to evolve this concept on a global scale to protect the environments of periphery nations around the...

The research question is how might firms obtain the incentive to minimize any negative environmental impact arising from their business? One way is for the constitutions of firms to be amended, with or without a tax incentive, to integrate environmental stewardship into their governance...

This paper examines the new collaborative environmental governance, an enterprise that involves collaboration between a diversity of private, public and non-government stakeholders who, acting together towards commonly agreed goals, hope to achieve far more collectively, than individually. Such...