Fall 2018: Global Trends

In This Issue

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Literary Resources

Reviewed by JoAnne L. Dunec

Literary Resources Reviewed by JoAnne L. Dunec

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.

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

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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