EVST 255
Environmental Politics and Law
Spring 2010
Topics
- Introduction to the Course
- Principles and Strategies in Environmental Law
- Nuclear Experiments
- Nuclear Secrecy and Ecology
- Preparing for Nuclear War: NEPA
- Marine Food-Chains: Mercury
- Site Restoration Law
- Chemically Dependent Agriculture
- Risk and Law: Pesticide Paradigm
- Safe Drinking Water: Science and Law
- Safety Claims and Free Speech: Preemption and Defamation
- Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety
- Vehicle Emissions and Public Transit
- The Quiet Revolution in Plastics
- The Tobacco Paradigm
- Evolution of Tobacco Law
- Land Use and Conservation Law: The Adirondack History
- Property Rights and Public Lands Management
- Land Use Law and Property Rights
- Managing Coastal Resources in an Era of Climate Change
- Certification: Design and Green Architecture
- Past and Future of Nuclear Power
- Renewable Energy Policies
- Reflection and Lessons
Readings
- Kessler, David. A Question of Intent . New York: Public Affairs, 2002.
- Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma . New York: Penguin, 2007.
- Wargo, John. Green Intelligence . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
- Weinberg, Philip, and Kevin Reilly. Understanding Environmental Law . 2nd ed. Lexis Nexis Press, 2008.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical Open Yale Courses
- Historical Open Yale Courses offering. Texts and lecture titles are reproduced as bibliographic and topic information; reading requirements vary by the linked syllabus.