Publication

2010 - Yale University Press, New Haven [Conn., Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

78,500 words, Guess

Page Count

314 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780300120011
  • Open LibraryOL24379475M

Classifications

  • DDC344.04/6
  • LCCK3585 .K97 2010
  • LCCK3585.K97 2010

Description

As Kysar shows, such an objectivist stance fails to adequately motivate ethical engagement with the most pressing and challenging aspects of environmental law and policy, which concern how we relate to future generations, foreign nations, and other forms of life. Indeed, world governments struggle to address climate change and other pressing environmental issues in large part because dominant methods of policy analysis obscure the central reasons for acting to ensure environmental sustainability. To compensate for these shortcomings, Kysar first offers a novel defense of the precautionary principle and other commonly misunderstood features of environmental law and policy. He then concludes by advocating a movement toward environmental constitutionalism in which the ability of life to flourish is always regarded as a luxury we can afford."--Pub. desc.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Regulating from nowhere: environmental law and the search for objectivityYale University Press2010-01-01

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