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Environment in the Balance : The Green Movement and the Supreme Court / Jonathan Z. Cannon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cannon, Jonathan Z., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Environmental law--United States--History.
- Environmental law.
- Environmentalism--United States.
- Environmentalism.
- Environmental policy--United States.
- Environmental policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Does the green movement remain a transformative force in American life? In Environment in the Balance Jonathan Cannon interprets a wide range of U.S. Supreme Court decisions over four decades and explores the current ferment among activists, to gauge the practical and cultural impact of environmentalism and its future prospects.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Environmentalism
- 2. Environmental Law, the Court, and Interpretation
- 3. Environmental Urgency and Law
- 4. Law for the Environmental Other
- 5. Efficiency
- 6. Standing
- 7. Federalism
- 8. Private Property
- 9. The Eclipse of NEPA
- 10. Environmentalist Futures
- Appendix: Selected Cases
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780674425989
- 0674425987
- 9780674425965
- 0674425960
- OCLC:
- 906026048
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