Environmental Law after Katrina: Reforming Environmental Law by Reforming Environmental Lawmaking
Tulane Law Review, Vol. 81, No. 1, 2007
39 Pages Posted: 17 Jun 2007
Abstract
Hurricane Katrina's overriding lesson for environmental law is no less than our environmental lawmaking institutions require fundamental reformation. Otherwise, the nation's tragic failure not only to enact laws that anticipate the obvious risks presented to the Gulf Region by hurricanes, but perversely to increase those risks by destroying the ecosystem's natural protections, will inevitably be repeated with even more devastating results.
Keywords: environmental law, natural resources law, administrative law, land use law, state and local government
JEL Classification: K32,K23,Q24,Q25
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Lazarus, Richard James, Environmental Law after Katrina: Reforming Environmental Law by Reforming Environmental Lawmaking. Tulane Law Review, Vol. 81, No. 1, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=993216
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