Lawyers, Swamps, and Money
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Lawyers, Swamps, and Money

U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics

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Lawyers, Swamps, and Money

U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics

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Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is an accessible, engaging guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them.

Readers will first learn the basics of administrative law: how agencies receive and exercise their authority, how they actually make laws, and how stakeholders can influence their behavior through the Executive Branch, Congress, the courts, and the media. These core concepts provide a base of knowledge for successive discussions of:

  • the geographic scope and activities covered by the Clean Water Act
  • the curious relationship between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency
  • the goal of no net loss of wetlands
  • the role of entrepreneurial wetland mitigation banking
  • the tension between wetland mitigation bankers and in-lieu fee mitigation programs
  • wetland regulation and private property rights.

The book concludes with insightful policy recommendations to make wetlands law less ambiguous and more effective.
A prominent legal scholar and wetlands expert, professor Royal C. Gardner has a rare knack for describing landmark cases and key statutes with uncommon clarity and even humor. Students of environmental law and policy and natural resource professionals will gain the thorough understanding of administrative law needed to navigate wetlands policy-and they may even enjoy it.

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Publisher
Island Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781610910255
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. About Island Press
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. Chapter 1 - The Ebb and Flow of Public Perceptions of Wetlands
  8. Chapter 2 - Administrative Law: The Short Course
  9. Chapter 3 - What’s a Wetland ( for purposes of Clean Water Act jurisdiction) ?
  10. Chapter 4 - Dredge and Fill: The Importance of Precise Definitions
  11. Chapter 5 - Strange Bedfellows: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  12. Chapter 6 - No Net Loss: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
  13. Chapter 7 - Wetland Mitigation Banking: Banking on Entrepreneurs
  14. Chapter 8 - In-lieu Fee Mitigation: Money for Nothing?
  15. Chapter 9 - Leveling the Mitigation Playing Field
  16. Chapter 10 - Wetland Enforcement: The Ultimate Discretionary Act
  17. Chapter 11 - Regulatory Takings in the Wetland Context
  18. Chapter 12 - Concluding Thoughts and Recommendations
  19. Epilogue: Where Are They Now?
  20. APPENDIX
  21. ENDNOTES
  22. SELECTED REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
  23. INDEX
  24. Island Press | Board of Directors