Environmental law, policy, and economics : reclaiming the environmental agenda

"Ashford and Caldart have produced an extraordinary book sweeping across the scientific complexity, legal underpinnings, economic logic, and policy challenges of environmental protection. With its encyclopedic range and valuable detailed analyses of the core statutes addressing air and water pollution, waste, and chemical exposures as well as other issues, this book offers an indispensable foundation for those seeking to understand society's approach to environmental challenges." --Daniel C. Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale Law School "This book is a timely and important contribution, written by authors who combine decades of academic excellence with significant real life experiences. It demonstrates the cutting edge potential for law to become a policy tool that can drive sustainable innovation when applied by knowledgeable and capable practitioners. The vast and comprehensive scope is both broad and deep; the synthesis of complex interconnections is a welcome tour de force." --Ted Smith, Founder and former Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and Coordinator, International Campaign for Responsible Technology "At a time when the world is rethinking environmental policy, this book provides a tremendous resource for academics, policymakers, and the environmental community. The work presents a rich multi-disciplinary perspective on historical approaches and offers alternative innovative solutions to environmental and public health protection. It is the textbook we have always needed." --Thomas A. Burke, Professor and Director, Johns Hopkins University Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute, and former Deputy Commissioner of Health, N.J. "The inclusion of environmental science in the context of a treatise on environmental law, policy, and economics makes this book one of the most comprehensive, useful, and timeless treatments on the subject to date." --Jennifer Sass, Ph.D., Senior scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council "Radical reformation of industrial production must become a much higher priority to avoid human and environmental catastrophes in an age of global terrorism and commerce. The authors lay out the philosophical and policy underpinnings that support the cutting edge synthesis of inherent safety and pollution prevention. If the new paradigm is embraced, the health of workers, communities, businesses, and the environment will be sustained." --Jerry Poje, Ph.D., former board member of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board "This book provides a comprehensive introduction, a thorough assessment, and a needed resource for anyone interested in reducing environmental pollution. It provides a useful framework for preventing harm, transforming our technologies, and increasing business innovations with an excellent presentation of theories of pollution in social, economic, and legal context, and the shortcomings of prevailing regulatory and enforcement approaches. This book arrives just in time as our federal regulatory system is in critical need of repair. It is likely to become the bible for activists, academics or any change agent." --Gary D. Bass, Ph.D., Executive Director, OMB Watch and Affiliated Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute "This treatise offers an engaging text for the serious student of public policy who wants to understand environmental policy design from a technical, legal, and economic perspective. The analysis offers a penetratingly critical review of current policies and how we developed them, insightfully analyzing what works and what does not. Focused on chemical hazards, pollution, and industrial organization, the book addresses the fragmented, media-specific statutes with a fresh, innovation-driven technology approach that presents a positive, integrated, and solution-oriented vision for the next wave of policy development." --Ken Geiser, Ph.D., Director, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Founding Director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute "This book explores not only the basic environmental pollution control laws but also, and of fundamental importance, the ways in which these laws do or do not lead to cleaner production. Its explanations of various concepts and legal tools will be useful to both students and practitioners." --John C. Dernbach, Professor of Law, Widener University Law School "An excellent, provocative book by two leadings scholars that challenges much of the accepted wisdom that has guided public policy. Agree or not, it is thoughtful "must reading" for everyone who is serious about environmental law and policy." --E. Donald Elliott, former General Counsel, U.S. EPA; Adjunct Professor of Law, Yale and Georgetown Law Schools; Partner and Head of Environmental Health and Safety Department, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP "Highly recommended for use both in the classroom and the law office. It is not only a highly useful treatise on the field, but a convincing affirmation of the central role law plays in environmental protection." --William Futrell, President; Sustainable Development Law Associates "A comprehensive and invaluable compendium of two decades of scholarship and jurisprudence on the legal, social, and economic dimensions of pollution regulation, control, and prevention. Written largely from an American perspective, the volume draws important lessons from the comparative, European experience, as well." --David A. Sonnenfeld, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Studies, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry "For teachers, students, and active citizens, this comprehensive text clearly and superbly covers the complex subjects of environmental pollution, law, policy, and economics over a broad and dynamic reality. A virtuoso achievement by two seasoned scholars and practitioners." --Ralph Nader Read more...