LEADER 04968nam 22006854a 450 001 9910828513603321 005 20240418131701.0 010 $a1-281-96580-4 010 $a9786611965808 010 $a0-226-47064-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226470641 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578150 035 $a(EBL)408553 035 $a(OCoLC)309761992 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000195959 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169292 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195959 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10142262 035 $a(PQKB)10866816 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408553 035 $a(DE-B1597)524707 035 $a(OCoLC)1055419179 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226470641 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408553 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266025 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196580 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578150 100 $a20040209d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe making of environmental law$b[electronic resource] /$fRichard J. Lazarus 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-47037-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-294) and index. 327 $aTime, space, and ecological injury -- The implications of ecological injury for environmental protection law -- The challenges for U.S. lawmaking institutions and processes of environmental protection law -- Becoming environmental law -- Building a road : the 1970s -- Expanding the road : the 1980s -- Maintaining the road : the 1990s -- The emerging architecture of U.S. environmental law -- Changing conceptions of time and space redux : environmental law's future challenges -- Environmental law's second (and quite different) "republican moment" -- Conclusion : the graying of the green. 330 $aThe unprecedented expansion in environmental regulation over the past thirty years-at all levels of government-signifies a transformation of our nation's laws that is both palpable and encouraging. Environmental laws now affect almost everything we do, from the cars we drive and the places we live to the air we breathe and the water we drink. But while enormous strides have been made since the 1970's, gaps in the coverage, implementation, and enforcement of the existing laws still leave much work to be done. In The Making of Environmental Law, Richard J. Lazarus offers a new interpretation of the past three decades of this area of the law, examining the legal, political, cultural, and scientific factors that have shaped-and sometimes hindered-the creation of pollution controls and natural resource management laws. He argues that in the future, environmental law must forge a more nuanced understanding of the uncertainties and trade-offs, as well as the better-organized political opposition that currently dominates the federal government. Lazarus is especially well equipped to tell this story, given his active involvement in many of the most significant moments in the history of environmental law as a litigator for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division, an assistant to the Solicitor General, and a member of advisory boards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Environmental Defense Fund. Ranging widely in his analysis, Lazarus not only explains why modern environmental law emerged when it did and how it has evolved, but also points to the ambiguities in our current situation. As the field of environmental law "grays" with middle age, Lazarus's discussions of its history, the lessons learned from past legal reforms, and the challenges facing future lawmakers are both timely and invigorating. 606 $aEnvironmental law$zUnited States 606 $aEnvironmental law$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aEnvironmental protection$zUnited States 606 $aEnvironmental protection$zUnited States$xHistory 610 $aregulation, government, law, legislation, environmentalism, environment, nature, pollution, clean water, implementation, enforcement, legal, natural resources, management, reform, preservation, conservation, environmental defense fund, world wildlife, justice department, epa, ecology, commercial fishing, wetlands, habitat, ocean health, development, endangered species, nonfiction, science, climate change, global warming. 615 0$aEnvironmental law 615 0$aEnvironmental law$xHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmental protection 615 0$aEnvironmental protection$xHistory. 676 $a344.7304/6 700 $aLazarus$b Richard J$0159382 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828513603321 996 $aThe making of environmental law$94091263 997 $aUNINA