Environmental Law articles from December 1997

Environmental Law archives from December 1997

Allowing fertility decline: 200 years after Malthus's essay on population.(Symposium on Population Law)
December 22, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION Currently, fertility rates are declining or are already low in most countries.(1) The economic opportunity model presented herein predicts that this trend will continue because it is a response to real economic and...

Population control and sustainability: it's the same old song but with a different meaning.(Symposium on Population Law)
December 22, 1997... If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger but not a better or a...

The environment, population, and women's human rights. (Symposium on Population Law)
December 22, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION In the view of many current observers, the state of the earth's environment and the population it sustains has reached a critical point. A host of serious problems face the world community and satisfactory solutions...

Religious responses to the population sustainability problematic: implications for law.(Symposium on Population Law)
December 22, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION In an Atlantic Monthly article, Charles Mann asked the question, "How Many is Too Many?" for the earth to sustain.(1) Mann argues that since the 1700s, the answers to this question have varied between those who believe...

Environmental Malthusianism: integrating population and environmental policy.(Symposium on Population Law)
December 22, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION: THE TRADITIONAL MALTHUSIAN DEBATE When Thomas Malthus warned of the dangers of overpopulation in his 1798 Essay on Population, he was concerned mostly about food.(1) Malthus warned that if the world's population was...

The population explosion: why we should care and what we should do about it.(Symposium on Population Law)
December 22, 1997... Almost everyone has heard about the population explosion, but few people understand its significance. Following is a brief overview of the basic problem caused by the rapid increase in human numbers from roughly one billion people in 1800 to...

Sustainable consumption and the law.(Symposium on Population Law)
December 22, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION Over a quarter century has passed since the Clean Air Act of 1970(1) ushered in the era of modern environmental law, establishing for the first time tough, nationally uniform command-and-control requirements.(2) From...

Feeling grounded: a gendered view of population control.(Symposium on Population Law)
December 22, 1997... On a slow boat in China, sailing up the Yangtze River, I observed construction beginning on what will soon become the largest dam on the planet.(1) I was on my way to the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing(2) and...

Political influences on USFWS listing decisions under the ESA: time to rethink priorities. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Act)
December 22, 1997... Recently I read an account of a Los Angeles "Eco-Expo" last April, where children were invited to write down their answers to the basic question: "Why save endangered species?" One child, Gabriel, answered, "Because God gave us animals."...

Successor liability and CERCLA: the runaway doctrine of continuity of enterprise.
December 22, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION II. CERCLA, SUCCESSOR LIABILITY, AND THE EPA INTERPRETATION III. PRODUCT LIABILITY AND CERCLA--ALTERNATIVE EVOLUTIONS OF THE SUCCESSOR LIABILITY DOCTRINE A. Setting the Stage: The Traditional Doctrine and Its...