Sunday, September 13, 2009

cumulative impacts in a finite world

SEHN | The Overarching Structure Of U.S. Environmental Decision-Making
Our current property and environmental law, including both federal statutes and the common law, harbors the presumption that economic activity generally provides a net benefit to society despite any accompanying damage it may cause. Grounded almost invisibly in this starting presumption, most of our property and environmental laws permit interference with economic activity only where that starting presumption isSource: subrealism RSS Feed

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