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Whose Backyard, Whose Risk

Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting

By: Michael B. Gerrard

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Whose Backyard, Whose Risk

Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting

By: Michael B. Gerrard

In Whose Backyard, Whose Risk, environmental lawyer, professor, and commentator Michael B. Gerrard tackles the thorny issue of how and where to dispose of hazardous and radioactive waste. In Whose Backyard, Whose Risk, environmental lawyer, professor, and commentator Michael B. Gerrard tackles the thorny issue of how and where to dispose of hazardous and radioactive waste. Gerrard, who has represented dozens of municipalities and community groups that have fought landfills and incinerators, as well as companies seeking permits, clearly and succinctly analyzes a problem that has generated a tremendous amount of political conflict, emotional anguish, and transaction costs. He proposes a new system of waste disposal that involves local control, state responsibility, and national allocation to deal comprehensively with multiple waste streams. Gerrard draws on the literature of law, economics, political science, and other disciplines to analyze the domestic and international origins of wastes and their disposal patterns. Based on a study of the many failures and few successes of past siting efforts, he identifies the mistaken assumptions and policy blunders that have helped doom siting efforts. Gerrard first describes the different kinds of nonradioactive and radioactive wastes and how each is generated and disposed of. He explains historical and current siting decisions and considers the effects of the current mechanisms for making those decisions (including the hidden economics and psychology of the siting process). A typology of permit rules reveals the divergence between what underlies most siting disputes and what environmental laws actually protect. Gerrard then looks at proposals for dealing with the siting dilemma and examines the successes and failures of each. He outlines a new alternative for facility siting that combines a political solution and a legal framework for implementation. A hypothetical example of how a siting decision might be made in a particular case is presented in an epilogue.

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MIT Press

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0262571137

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9780262571135

Urban Climate Law

An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer

By: Michael Burger,Amy E. Turner

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Urban Climate Law

An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer

By: Michael Burger,Amy E. Turner

Cities have taken a leading role in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As federal and state climate policy waxes and wanes, many of the largest U.S. cities have pledged themselves to ambitious sustainability goals, as have smaller communities across the country. City-level policy makers, facing a range of political constraints, a thicket of federal and state laws, and varying degrees of municipal authority, need to figure out how to meet their climate commitments. Urban Climate Law is a practical, user-friendly primer on the legal challenges and opportunities for effective and equitable decarbonization. Michael Burger and Amy E. Turner—leading experts in local climate law and policy—examine the key issues surrounding climate mitigation policies across the buildings, transportation, waste, and energy sectors, with an emphasis on environmental justice. They explore the legal frameworks and factors that can constrain or enable various approaches at the municipal level. Burger and Turner clearly and accessibly present complex legal topics like preemption, federal statutes such as the Clean Air Act, and constitutional law for readers without legal backgrounds, including students, advocates, officials, and other practitioners. Aimed at a nonspecialist audience, this book provides concise and comprehensible answers to the core questions cities confront when seeking to develop legally sound local climate policy.

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229

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Columbia University Press

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0231554052

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9780231554053

Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection

By: Michael Taylor

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Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection

By: Michael Taylor

A powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and commitments to other people and to practices, projects, principles, and places, which provide them with desire-independent reasons for action, and that they are reflective creatures who think about what they are and what they should be, with ideals that can shape and structure the way they see their choices. The author's views are brought to bear on the economic way of thinking about the natural environment and on how and when the norm of fair reciprocity motivates us to do our part in cooperative endeavors. Throughout, the argument is adorned by thought-provoking examples that keep what is at stake clearly before the reader's mind.

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238

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Cambridge University Press

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1139459163

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9781139459167

Multiple Congenital Anomalies

A Diagnostic Compendium

By: Robin M. Winter,Michael Baraitser

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Multiple Congenital Anomalies

A Diagnostic Compendium

By: Robin M. Winter,Michael Baraitser

The size of the problem, can be assessed This book is an off-shoot of the computerized from the following. Of 50 children bom, 1 London Dysmorphology Database which is now widely used by many geneticists and will have an easily detectable major malfor mation. Many of these will have a single dysmorphologists. Both the database and this malformation, but in the region of 8 in 1000 book have arisen out of a need to cope with the ever increasing nurober of multiple will have multiple abnormalities. This group will include 50% with chromosomal disorders congenital anomaly syndromes, especially recognizable by performing a karyotype, the details about their features and where infor mation can be found in the Iiterature. Indeed rest needing tobe diagnosed by other means. there are more than 2000 non-chromosomal It is to the diagnosis of this latter group that this book is dedicated. multiple malformation syndromes to which access is essential. If computerized databases have solved THE DIAGNOSIS OF DYSMORPHIC some of the problems, why is there a need SYNDROMES for this book? There are many physicians who do not have a desk computer or do not History feel at ease in using one. In addition geneticists are doing more satellite clinics and Before identifying the specific dysmorphic in some circumstances it would be more features, at least a three generation family history needs to be taken. It is necessary to convenient to carry a book than a computer.

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1441

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Springer

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1489931090

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9781489931092

Amending CERCLA

The Post-SARA Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, And Liability Act

By: Michael Gerrard,Joel M. Gross

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Amending CERCLA

The Post-SARA Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, And Liability Act

By: Michael Gerrard,Joel M. Gross

Three important amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund) narrowed the Act's liability to address specific policy objectives. This book is a single-source compendium of this legislation, leading court decisions, and administrative implementation, including the annotated statute, EPA guidance documents, and CD-ROM with the entire legislative history of CERCLA.

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684

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American Bar Association

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1590312503

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9781590312506

Global Climate Change and U.S. Law

By: Michael Gerrard

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Global Climate Change and U.S. Law

By: Michael Gerrard

This comprehensive, current examination of U.S. law as it relates to global climate change begins with a summary of the factual and scientific background of climate change based on governmental statistics and other official sources. Subsequent chapters address the international and national frameworks of climate change law, including the Kyoto Protocol, state programs affected in the absence of a mandatory federal program, issues of disclosure and corporate governance, and the insurance industry. Also covered are the legal aspects of other efforts, including voluntary programs, emissions trading programs, and carbon sequestration.

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796

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American Bar Association

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1590318161

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9781590318164

The Hot Springs Cove Story

The Beginnings of Maquinna Marine Provincial Park

By: Michael Kaehn

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The Hot Springs Cove Story

The Beginnings of Maquinna Marine Provincial Park

By: Michael Kaehn

Up until the 1930s, Refuge Cove was one of the most remote places on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Tucked into Clayoquot Sound, it sheltered boats from Pacific storms and its hot springs provided welcome relief for anyone waiting for bad weather to pass. In spite of its natural wonders, the cove was undeveloped and transiently populated. But everything changed in 1933, when supply boat operator Ivan Clarke saw a business opportunity. At the age of thirty, Clarke pre-empted land in Refuge Cove and started a general store/trading post out of a large canvas tent. In only its first morning of business, the store sold almost half its merchandise—250 dollars’ worth—to weather-bound fishermen and to a small group of Hesquiaht First Nation families. Clarke was quickly able to expand his operation and started a fish-buying camp, a marine fuel business and a post office. When enough of his eight children became school age, he repurposed a former floating bunkhouse into a one-room schoolhouse. By 1950, over sixty people lived in Refuge Cove, by then renamed Hot Springs Cove, and it was a popular destination for tourists. Clarke originally had plans to develop the hot springs into a health resort, but in the end decided to donate part of his land to the people of British Columbia. Thirty-one acres of land beside the hot springs became Maquinna Provincial Park in 1955. Today, the park and the hot springs draw tens of thousands of people each year, making them one of the top tourist attractions out of Tofino. Meticulously researched and complete with historical photos and ephemera, The Hot Springs Cove Story is the story of Ivan Clarke and his family’s lives, the story of a community and the story of a geographical wonder.

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238

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Harbour Publishing

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155017861X

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9781550178616

Doctrines of Development

By: Michael Cowen,Robert W. Shenton

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Doctrines of Development

By: Michael Cowen,Robert W. Shenton

Examines the history of the idea of development, and doctrines governments have employed to practice development policy. Beginning with the 19th century "invention" of modern development, the authors discuss Karl Marx's critique of development and the crea

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Taylor & Francis

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0415125162

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9780415125161

Milton's Century

A Timeline of the Literary, Political, Religious, and Social Centext of John Milton's Life

By: Michael R. Collings

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Milton's Century

A Timeline of the Literary, Political, Religious, and Social Centext of John Milton's Life

By: Michael R. Collings

No artist creates his works in a vacuum. Beyond the conscious influence of books read, artwork seen, minds probed (through conversation or exchange of letters), writers are in no small part products of everything that surrounds them--people, places, things, events. MILTON'S CENTURY is designed to place one particular genius--John Milton, arguably the finest poet the English nation (perhaps even Western civilization) has produced--in the context of his time. And what a remarkable time it was--a century of revolutions, of discoveries, of literary and artistic efflorescence, of religious turmoil and political turbulence, of plagues and fires and ultimate rebuilding...and of the first adumbrations of the Modern Age. MILTON'S CENTURY becomes vital and alive for twenty-first-century readers through the vast network of connections and interconnections that Professor Collings articulates. [Borgo Literary Guides, No. 15.]

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479409944

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9781479409945

The End of Energy

The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence

By: Michael J. Graetz

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The End of Energy

The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence

By: Michael J. Graetz

Forty years of energy incompetence: villains, failures of leadership, and missed opportunities. Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when we turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the pump gas will be plentiful and relatively cheap. In The End of Energy, Michael Graetz shows us that we have been living an energy delusion for forty years. Until the 1970s, we produced domestically all the oil we needed to run our power plants, heat our homes, and fuel our cars. Since then, we have had to import most of the oil we use, much of it from the Middle East. And we rely on an even dirtier fuel—coal—to produce half of our electricity. Graetz describes more than forty years of energy policy incompetence and argues that we must make better decisions for our energy future. Despite thousands of pages of energy legislation since the 1970s (passed by a Congress that tended to elevate narrow parochial interests over our national goals), Americans have never been asked to pay a price that reflects the real cost of the energy they consume. Until Americans face the facts about price, our energy incompetence will continue—and along with it the unraveling of our environment, security, and independence.

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MIT Press

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0262294745

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9780262294744

Peptide Growth Factors and Their Receptors I

By: Michael B. Sporn,Anita B. Roberts

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Peptide Growth Factors and Their Receptors I

By: Michael B. Sporn,Anita B. Roberts

This two-volume treatise, the collected effort of more than 50 authors, represents the first comprehensive survey of the chemistry and biology of the set of molecules known as peptide growth factors. Although there have been many symposia on this topic, and numerous publications of reviews dealing with selected subsets of growth factors, the entire field has never been covered in a single treatise. It is essential to do this at the present time, as the number of journal articles on peptide growth factors now makes it almost impossible for anyone person to stay informed on this subject by reading the primary literature. At the same time it is becoming increasingly apparent that these substances are of universal importance in biology and medicine and that the original classification of these molecules, based on the laboratory setting of their discovery, as "growth factors," "lymphokines," "cytokines," or "colony stimulating factors," was quite artifactual; they are in fact the basis of a com mon language for intercellular communication. As a set they affect essentially every cell in the body, and in this regard they provide the basis to develop a unified science of cell biology, germane to all of biomedical research. This treatise is divided into four main sections. After three introductory chapters, its principal focus is the detailed description of each of the major peptide growth factors in 26 individual chapters.

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811

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642492959

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9783642492952

Whose Backyard, Whose Risk

Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting

By: Michael B. Gerrard

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Whose Backyard, Whose Risk

Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting

By: Michael B. Gerrard

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Book's by Michael B. Gerrard

Whose Backyard, Whose Risk

Whose Backyard, Whose Risk

Urban Climate Law

Urban Climate Law

Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection

Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection

Multiple Congenital Anomalies

Multiple Congenital Anomalies

Amending CERCLA

Amending CERCLA

Global Climate Change and U.S. Law

Global Climate Change and U.S. Law

The Hot Springs Cove Story

The Hot Springs Cove Story

Doctrines of Development

Doctrines of Development

Milton's Century

Milton's Century

The End of Energy

The End of Energy

Peptide Growth Factors and Their Receptors I

Peptide Growth Factors and Their Receptors I

Whose Backyard, Whose Risk

Whose Backyard, Whose Risk

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