This article tells the epic tale of the fall and rise of Mono Lake— the strange and beautiful Dead Sea of California—which fostered some of the most important environmental law developments of the last century.
Erin Ryan argues that environmental law is uniquely prone to federalism discord because it inevitably confronts the core question with which federalism grapples—who gets to decide?—in contexts where state and federal claims to power are simultaneously at their strongest.
In the United States, debate over the responsibilities of different levels of government are framed within our system of constitutional federalism, which divides sovereign power between the central federal administration and regional states. Dilemmas about devolution have been erupting in all regulatory contexts, but environmental governance remains uniquely prone to federalism discord because it inevitably confronts the core question with which federalism grapples—“who gets to decide?”— in contexts where state and federal claims to power are simultaneously at their strongest.
In this article, Rosi Braidotti explores the relation between posthumanism and the environmental humanities.
Full article by former RCC fellow Dominic Hinde.
Astrida Neimanis on water. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Peter Singer is interviewed on his book, Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, David R. Boyd is interviewed on his recent book, The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Stacia Ryder, Kathryn Powlen, and Melinda Laituri are interviewed on their edited volume, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures.
María Valeria Berros discusses the recognition of nature’s rights in Ecuador.
