Best of the books: reflections on recent literature in natural resources and the environment
- Publisher:
- Environmental Law Institute
- Publication date:
- 2015-09-18
- Authors:
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Oliver A. Houck
G. Tracy Mehan III - ISBN:
- 978-1-58576-175-3
Description:
Lively wit and wisdom from the alternating books columnists in The Environmental Forum, the policy journal for environmental professionals Best of the Books is a series of 60 essays and book reviews originally published in the Environmental Law Institute's policy journal, The Environmental Forum. Written by columnists Oliver A. Houck and G. Tracy Mehan III, two longtime observers and developers of environmental policy, this anthology provides thoughtful and insightful pieces that reflect where we are now in the struggle to harmonize our environmental and economic aspirations. As William D. Ruckelshaus, the first U.S. EPA Administrator, writes in the foreword: "If you find yourself interested in the environment and thirsting for more information about what is meant by being an environmentalist, this is the book for you. If you want to understand the multitude of complex issues different players in the debates heroes and villains then read on. What you will find is the rich and fascinating unfolding of a movement that in its modern form is now over 50 years old." Best of the Books will serve as an excellent source for anyone needing a canon of recent literature on the modern environmental movement and the legal structures supporting it.
Index
- The Other John Muir: The Ice Kingdom and the Corwin Voyage
- Books Reviewed
- About the Authors
- Foreword
- Risk Management: Gone Too Far?
- A Tale of Two Law Professors
- What Do We Want Corporations to Do?
- Bruce Babbitt's Goodly Archipelago
- Water Quality Trading: A Guide for the Perplexed
- The Uncontrol of Nature
- Contending Visions of Conservation
- Competitive Advantage: Examining Business Strategy Through an Environmental Lens
- The Worst Hard Time: An American Tragedy
- A Man of Consequence: The Conflicts of a Conservative Conservationist
- A Murder Mystery in the Woods
- Climate Changes: Managing a Tectonic Shift in Law and Practice
- Distress Call: Not With a Bang but a Whimper
- Buy Land: They Ain't Makin' Any More
- Biodiversity: A Passion for Science, Politics, or Both
- Gordian Unknotting: A Call for a Renewed Environmental State
- In With the New: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
- Sisyphus on a Roll: Society Faces the High Price of Capitalism
- Water Pricing: Hail to the British Empirical Approach
- On the Brink: Species and Culture at the Edge of Survival
- Nanotechnology: Uncertainty, Risk, and Opportunity
- Rules of the Road: Lawyering in a Larger War
- Low on H20: Can We Slake the Nation's Thirst for Water?
- Teapot Dome: Oil and the Scandal That Will Not Die
- Hard and Soft: Paths to 21st Century Water Management
- Unseen Hand: Big Brother Is Nudging You
- A Healthy Respect: Science, the Environment, Political Reality
- Oil Over Again: From the Exxon Valdez to BP and Beyond
- Pipe Dreams: Providing Power to the People
- Regulating Law: Environmental Protection's Belief Systems
- Environmental Protection That Works
- Trial by Fire: Saving the American West
- A Classic a Quarter Century Later
- Alaska's Challenge to the Imagination
- Environmentalism and Economics as Religion
- The Soiling of the South: Ducktown Smoke
- The Ark Reposes in Dry Dock
- What Happened After Columbus Arrived
- The Future of Water: Technology, Economics, Political Will
- Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Future of Environmental Law and Policy
- Deconstructing Wilderness: Time to Take a Walk on the Post-Wild Side
- Genetic Tales: Don't Ask Me, I Don't Know How It Ends
- Enviropreneurshop: Property Rights for Environmental Benefit
- Waterton's World: The First Environmentalist
- A Dynamic System: The Uncertainty Principle for Ecology
- Priceless? Water, the Ultimate Resource
- The Dutch Are Much: Governance and Making Space for the River
- The Ultimate Enigma: The Price of Gold: Who Owns Whom?
- Force & Resistance: Ruin, Recovery in the Mississippi Watershed
- The Darter & The Dam: Environmental Law's Original Morality Play
- Green Complements Gray: Saving Forests, Protecting Water Quality
- Fish Story: How Menhaden Ruled the Waves
- Show Me the Money: Financing the Next Environmental Wave
- The Book on Jobs: Regulation and the Search for a Unified Theory
- Bested by a Bass: The Westway War and the Highway Program
- Dead Beyond Resurrection: Engineering an Enduring Tragedy on the River
- Too Big to Pay? Oil and Gas Development in Coastal Louisiana
- An Ecumenical Approach: The Never-Ending Quest for Energy
- Preliminary sections