Fall 2018: Global Trends

In This Issue

Environment

The Price of Global Conservation: Benefits and Burdens of Parks and Conservation Areas

Emily Bergeron

The displacement of indigenous peoples resulting from the creation of the world’s parks and conservation areas is a too-often ignored cost of environmental protection.

Environment

ICE-Free Cities: Global Strategies for Creating Sustainable Urban Transport

Daniel A. Spitzer

Cities worldwide are acting to reduce and eliminate vehicle emissions, from outright bans on fossil fuel powered vehicles to innovative transport apps and technology.

Environment

Growing Momentum Toward the Global Elimination of Lead Paint: International Collaboration and National Engagement

Lauren Maher and Steve Wolfson

Lead paint is still legal in more than 100 countries; however, momentum is building around the world toward the enactment of laws to prohibit lead paint.

Environment

Global Trends: Climate Change and Resilience within Contaminated Lands Rehabilitation

William D. Wick, Barbara Maco, Lara Hansen, Paul Bardos, Eric Mielbrecht, and Tetsuo Yasutaka

International efforts are underway to address risks from climate change on contaminated sites and to enhance communities’ value by resilient redevelopment.

Environment

Myanmar’s Nascent Environmental Governance System: Challenges and Opportunities

William J. Schulte and Matthew H. Baird

The country of Myanmar has made great strides toward developing a modern environmental legal framework since opening after decades of relative isolation, but significant challenges remain.

Environment

Paris Agreement and India: Dalliance or Serious Alliance?

Anupam Jha

India has made policy and institutional changes in existing rules and norms toward achievement of the goals of the 2016 Paris Agreement.

Environment

The Kigali Amendment’s and China’s Critical Roles in Evolving the Montreal Protocol

Xiaopu Sun and Tad Ferris

Simultaneous energy efficiency improvement with refrigerant transition under the Kigali Amendment could double climate mitigation potential and curb global energy demand increases.

Environment

Is Canada Living Up to Its Global Climate Commitments?

Emily K. Green and Phelps Turner

Recent trends in Canadian policy concerning oil and gas extraction and pipeline development threaten Canada’s ability to meet the commitments it made in Paris.

Environment

The Mexichem Decision: Uncertainty during Uncertain Times

Shannon Martin Dilley

The Mexichem decision uprooted a well-established HFC reduction program, revealing the vulnerability of a single approach. Meaningful reductions require international, national, state, and industry actions.

Environment

Global Trends in Protection of Migratory Birds

Robert V. Percival and Garrett S. Kral

Protection of migratory birds spawned some of the first environmental treaties, but this conservation initiative faces new challenges because the major threats to these species have changed dramatically.

Departments

Environment

Vantage Point

Madeline June Kass, Issue Editor

Concern for the earth’s environment has grown and continues to expand as a global issue of considerable proportions.

Environment

Literary Resources

Reviewed by JoAnne L. Dunec

Literary Resources Reviewed by JoAnne L. Dunec

Environment

The Back Page: Fire on the Land: Two Stories

Jonathan P. Scoll

As wildfires blazed throughout the West this summer, and I was researching historic Native American landscape management by fire for a Back Page note, two items caught my eye.

Insights

Environment

Where’s Macondo? Where’s BAST? DOI’s Offshore Rules

Milo C. Mason

DOI offshore drilling and blow-out preventer regulations defer to industry standards instead of statutory-directed DOI/secretary-required determination of the best available and safest technology.

Environment

Tribal Renewable Energy Service Companies, Part 3

Dean B. Suagee

The mission of a tribal renewable energy service company could include managing a microgrid with a fleet of plug-in electric vehicles

Environment

Climate Change Adaptation, by Any Other Name

Mary Ellen Ternes

Climate change adaptation includes reassessment of chemical plant safety after Hurricane Harvey, specifically Clean Air Act section 112(r) risk management plans and chemical accident prevention.

Environment

The WOTUS Rule Repeal

Mark A. Ryan

Learn about the Trump administration’s recent supplemental rulemaking to repeal the WOTUS rule and highlights of the issues that are likely to be litigated.

Environment

Latest on Clean Water Act 404(c) Veto Authority

Jason D. Steiert

Under Obama, the EPA interpreted the Clean Water Act section 404 veto authority expansively. What does the future hold for the veto authority under Trump?

Environment

Environmental Rule of Law Index: A Task Force Pilot

Howard Kenison and Sarah Chamness Long

A joint initiative of the World Justice Project and the Section’s World Justice Project Task Force examines the nexus of the rule of law and environment and energy issues.

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Fall 2018: Global Trends

The Price of Global Conservation: Benefits and Burdens of Parks and Conservation Areas

In This Issue

The Price of Global Conservation: Benefits and Burdens of Parks and Conservation Areas

ICE-Free Cities: Global Strategies for Creating Sustainable Urban Transport

Growing Momentum Toward the Global Elimination of Lead Paint: International Collaboration and National Engagement

Global Trends: Climate Change and Resilience within Contaminated Lands Rehabilitation

Myanmar’s Nascent Environmental Governance System: Challenges and Opportunities

Paris Agreement and India: Dalliance or Serious Alliance?

The Kigali Amendment’s and China’s Critical Roles in Evolving the Montreal Protocol

Is Canada Living Up to Its Global Climate Commitments?

The Mexichem Decision: Uncertainty during Uncertain Times

Global Trends in Protection of Migratory Birds

Departments

Vantage Point

Literary Resources

The Back Page: Fire on the Land: Two Stories

Insights

Where’s Macondo? Where’s BAST? DOI’s Offshore Rules

Tribal Renewable Energy Service Companies, Part 3

Climate Change Adaptation, by Any Other Name

The WOTUS Rule Repeal

Latest on Clean Water Act 404(c) Veto Authority

Environmental Rule of Law Index: A Task Force Pilot