Emerging technologies are developing at an ever accelerating pace, whereas legal
mechanisms for potential oversight are, if anything, slowing down. Legislation is often …

Complex adaptive systems are a special kind of self-organizing system with emergent
properties and adaptive capacity in response to changing external conditions. In this article …

On Halloween, 2008, PBS's nightly news program The NewsHour reported the plight of
Montana's $300 million recreational fishing industry and $2.4 billion agricultural industry …

The path of environmental law has come to a cliff called climate change, and there is no
turning around. Someday, maybe soon, the federal government will take the big leap and …

Education for sustainable development (ESD) is playing an increasing role in the higher
education curriculum. However, little previous research exists on lecturers' understanding of …

Managing urban green space as part of an ongoing social-ecological transformation poses
novel governance issues, particularly in post-industrial settings. Urban green spaces …

In all but a few universities, human behavior is studied by social scientists in one set of
buildings, while the behavior of every species except humans is studied by life scientists in …

The history of environmental law provides as good of an example as any other field in
regulatory law of how successful prescriptive regulation has been at meeting public policy …

Better environmental results depend less on fine tuning theories of environmental federalism
than on improving regulatory performance. Simply put, how we regulate is more important …

The Anthropocene requires of us to rethink global governance challenges and effective
responses with a more holistic understanding of the earth system as a single intertwined …