Environmental Politics and Law - Audio
By John Wargo
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Description
Can law change human behavior to be less environmentally damaging? Law will be examined through case histories including: environmental effects of national security, pesticides, air pollution, consumer products, plastics, parks and protected area management, land use, urban growth and sprawl, public/private transit, drinking water standards, food safety, and hazardous site restoration. In each case we will review the structure of law and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses.
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24 - Reflections and Lessons | The final lecture reviews topics discussed in previous lectures by imagining an ideal society. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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23 - Renewable Energy Policies | The lecture discusses the various factors affecting the expansion of the U.S. renewable energy portfolio, as well as the importance of energy efficiency and changes to current consumption. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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22 - The Past and Future of Nuclear Power | The lecture begins a discussion of present and future energy demands and the ways in which we invest in different forms of energy by focusing on nuclear energy use globally | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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21 - Certification: Design and Green Architecture | The lecture critiques the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) certification system, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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20 - Managing Coastal Conservation and Development | The lecture reviews the legal and economic strategies that can be used to manage coastal development. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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19 - Land Use Law and Property Rights | The lecture addresses the issue of takings and when the government has the right to seize private property for the public good. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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18 - Property Rights and Public Lands Management | The lecture centers on public lands management and the effect of property rights on sustainable resource management. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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17 - Land Use and Conservation Law: The Adirondack History | By reviewing the conservation history of the Adirondack Park, this lecture examines strategies to manage land use and natural resources in protected areas. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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16 - Evolution of Tobacco Law | This lecture continues the previous class's discussion of tobacco law. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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15 - The Tobacco Paradigm | The lecture explores the development of scientific proof of the harm that tobacco poses to human health and the legal tools used to regulate its use. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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14 - The Quiet Revolution in Plastics | Plastics are omnipresent but minimally understood and regulated in the United States. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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13 - Vehicle Emissions and Public Transit | The lecture discusses developments in air quality monitoring and regulation in the United States, with an emphasis on regulating vehicle emissions. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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12 - Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety | The lecture describes the Clean Air Act and the way the federal government measures air quality as well as improvements in air quality. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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11 - Safety Claims and Free Speech: Preemption and Defamation | This lecture presents three cases: Bates v. Dow, the Alar case, and the Texas Cattlemen's Association's lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey for her coverage of Mad Cow Disease. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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10 - Safe Drinking Water: Science and Law | The lecture reviews water law in the United States, and highlights challenges inherent in regulating water quality. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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09 - Risk and Law: Pesticide Paradigm | The lecture charts the evolution of pesticide regulation in the United States. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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08 - Chemically Dependent Agriculture | The change from smaller, more diverse farms to larger single-crop farms in the US has led to greater reliance on pesticides for pest management. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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07 - Site Restoration Law | This lecture covers site restoration law by looking at the US Navy's use of the island of Vieques as weapons testing ground. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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06 - Marine Food Chains: Mercury | The military's use of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a training site is discussed to highlight the challenges involved in identifying and restoring hazardous sites. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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05 - Preparing for War: NEPA | During this session, Professor Wargo stresses the importance of considering the persistence of pollutants in the environment. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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04 - Nuclear Secrecy and Ecology | The United States government employed a variety of approaches to protect citizens from danger, including public education, nuclear weapons testing, and gathering data about the effects of nuclear testing. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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03 - Nuclear Experiments | To illustrate the linkages among national security, secrecy, and environmental quality, Professor Wargo describes the Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear tests in the 1950s. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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02 - Principals and Strategies in Environmental Law | The United States' fragmented, piecemeal approach to environmental law is presented through the cases that led to the creation of major environmental statutes such as the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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01 - Course Overview: Science and Law | Professor John Wargo introduces the central question of the course, "Can law shape a sustainable future for ten billion people?" | 3/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Engaging and informative
Seamlessly interwoven lectures have made science and law approachable, gripping, and enraging enough to want to fix it all.
Out of curiosity, I wish corresponding references were available to dive into some more of the noted stats, but for a free course 11/10 would recommend.
