LEADER 03445nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910457696103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-26086-7 010 $a9786613260864 010 $a0-300-16330-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300163308 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051796 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171567 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000540738 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11356756 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540738 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10492792 035 $a(PQKB)10525380 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165646 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420717 035 $a(DE-B1597)486212 035 $a(OCoLC)759397374 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300163308 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420717 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496895 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL326086 035 $a(OCoLC)923596394 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051796 100 $a20091027d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRegulating from nowhere$b[electronic resource] $eenvironmental law and the search for objectivity /$fDouglas A. Kysar 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 314 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-12001-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAgency and optimality -- Prescription and precaution -- Complexity and catastrophe -- Interests and emergence -- Other states -- Other generations -- Other forms of life -- Ecological rationality -- Environmental constitutionalism. 330 $aDrawing insight from a diverse array of sources - including moral philosophy, political theory, cognitive psychology, ecology, and science and technology studies - Douglas Kysar offers a new theoretical basis for understanding environmental law and policy. He exposes a critical flaw in the dominant policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis, which asks policymakers to, in essence, "regulate from nowhere." 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. 606 $aEnvironmental law$xPhilosophy 606 $aEnvironmental law$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnvironmental law$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEnvironmental law 676 $a344.04/6 700 $aKysar$b Douglas A$01051463 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457696103321 996 $aRegulating from nowhere$92481965 997 $aUNINA