Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach

David M. Driesen, Robert W. Adler

Aspen Publishers, 2007 - Law - 700 pages

Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach offers a unique
conceptual approach to teaching environmental law. The authors present a
structured treatment of federal environmental law that focuses on core
concepts rather than individual statutes. Using illustrative cases and
statutory provisions, the text identifies key concepts surrounding
environmental goals and responsibility as well as enforcement of the law,
thereby providing students with the means to understand any statutory scheme.
the authors have designed this casebook to effectively help students
understand environmental issues in all contexts:
they use a focused approach to explore the different ways of setting
environmental goals, costs and feasibility of controls, economic incentives,
traditional means of regulation, and the roles of federal and state
governments in setting requirements
the authors highlight the concepts that will enable students to understand any
statutory scheme
the book is organized around key questions: How do we establish environmental
goals? What means do we use to achieve these goals? How should responsibility
for clean-up and clean-up decisions be allocated? How should we enforce
environmental law?
the authors use a current, controversial environmental issue -- PFOA, or
perfluorooctanoic acid -- As an example that runs throughout the book and
assists students in understanding how the concepts they are learning apply to
a new issue
Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach, with its unique
approach:
presents the core concepts and exposes the key policy and practical questions
that those active in the field confront on a daily basis
facilitates a concrete understanding of the field and the overarching
framework that will aid students in making sense of the details of
environmental law
provides knowledge of the basic policy choices available to those practicing
in the field and explains the practical difficulties regulators and courts
face in implementing the law
a comprehensive Teacher's Manual:
assists professors in using the details in the materials to help students
think about the core conceptual questions and their relationships to statutory
schemes
includes problems and thought-provoking questions to accompany the reading
assignments
An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is
available at
http://www.aspenlawschool.com/driesenadler

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Department of Environmental health
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University of Hail, Hail
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 

About the author

David M. Driesen is University Professor at Syracuse University College of Law. He is the author of "The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law" (MIT Press, 2003), winner of the 2004 Lynton Keith Caldwell Award for best book on environmental policy, presented by the American Political Science Association.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach
• Authors: David M. Driesen, Robert W. Adler
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers, 2007
• ISBN: 0735561826, 9780735561823
• Length: 700 pages
• Subjects: Law / Environmental