Land Use Regulation: The Weak Link in Environmental Protection
16 Pages Posted: 17 Dec 2010
Date Written: 2007
Abstract
Professor William Rodgers is one of the handful of legal academics who have shaped and influenced environmental law since it was created out of whole cloth in the late 1960s. The staggering quantity, quality, breadth, and creativity of his scholarship are perhaps unrivaled among his peers. It is easy to criticize the gap between the environmental problems that society faces and the inadequate legal tools and institutions that we have created to confront them. Professor Rodgers has always been able to see both the deep flaws in environmental law and the possibilities for more responsive legal regimes.
Keywords: land use, environmental regulation, property, takings, environment, federal land use law
JEL Classification: K10, K32
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