SSRN Environmental Law & Policy eJournal

1.

The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change

Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-26, Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 89, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 435, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 230

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

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Dan M. Kahan, Maggie Wittlin, Ellen Peters, Paul Slovic, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Donald Braman and Gregory N. Mandel

Yale University - Law School, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - College of Law, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, Decision Research, Stanford Law School, George Washington University - Law School and Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law

Downloads 9,987

2.

Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk

HANDBOOK OF RISK THEORY, S. Roeser, ed., Forthcoming, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-20, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 222

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 7,336

3.

Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax is a Better Response to Global Warming than Cap and Trade

Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2009, U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 117

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and David M. Uhlmann

University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 6,051

4.

Understanding and Developing Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility

Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 37, pp. 125-144, 2008

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 Jun 2008

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Peter A. Heslin and Jenna D. Ochoa

UNSW Australia and Corporate Relief Pharmacist

Downloads 5,892

5.

Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1999, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 181, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 384

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 30 Oct 1998

Accepted Paper Series

Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein

Duke University - Department of Economics and Harvard Law School

Downloads 5,319

6.

Grocery Bag Bans and Foodborne Illness

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-2

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2013

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Jonathan Klick and Joshua D. Wright

University of Pennsylvania Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty

Downloads 4,816

7.

The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of - and Making Progress In - The American Culture War of Fact

GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 370, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 154, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 370, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-26

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

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Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman, Paul Slovic, John Gastil and Geoffrey L. Cohen

Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, Decision Research, Pennsylvania State University and University of Colorado - Department of Psychology

Downloads 4,647

8.

Cognition and Cost-Benefit Analysis

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 85

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Oct 1999

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 4,341

9.

Fixing the Communications Failure

Nature, Vol. 463, pp. 296-297, 2010

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 25 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 4,006

10.

The Real World of Cost-Benefit Analysis: Thirty-Six Questions (and Almost as Many Answers)

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 13-11

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2013

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,665

11.

Sustainability, Accountability and Corporate Governance: Exploring Multinationals' Reporting Practices

Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-15, 2008

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 May 2006 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Ans Kolk

University of Amsterdam Business School

Downloads 3,609

12.

Experience with Market-Based Environmental Policy Instruments

FEEM Working Paper No. 52.2002; KSG Working Paper No. 00-004

Number of pages: 99 Posted: 21 Dec 1999

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Robert N. Stavins

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 3,508

13.

Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 465-505, November 2007, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 152

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman, John Gastil, Paul Slovic and C. K. Mertz

Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, Pennsylvania State University, Decision Research and Decision Research

Downloads 3,368

14.

Climate Change Justice

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 354, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 177

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Aug 2007

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Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein

University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,316

15.

Private and Common Property Rights

Number of pages: 116 Posted: 21 Nov 2008

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Elinor Ostrom and Charlotte Hess

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) and Syracuse University Library

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,076

16.

Beyond the Precautionary Principle

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 149; U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 38

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 May 2002

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,015

17.

The Boundaries of Regulatory Expropriation in International Law

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Apr 2005

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Andrew Newcombe

University of Victoria - Faculty of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,954

18.

The New Legal Realism

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming , U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 372, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 191

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Dec 2007

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Thomas J. Miles and Cass R. Sunstein

University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,878

19.

Analysis of Environmental and Economic Damages from British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Albany Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 1, 2011: 563-585

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Lawrence C. Smith Jr., Murphy Smith and Paul Ashcroft

Louisiana Tech University (Retired), Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Missouri State University

Downloads 2,850

20.

An Economic Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 89, pp. 917-1030, April 2005

Number of pages: 114 Posted: 14 Sep 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Brett M. Frischmann

Villanova University - School of Law

Downloads 2,704

21.

Rome II and Tort Conflicts: A Missed Opportunity

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 56, 2008

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Nov 2007

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Symeon C. Symeonides

Willamette University - College of Law

Downloads 2,465

22.

The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks

Nature Climate Change, Vol. 2, pp. 732-735, 2012, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-04, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 464, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 278

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Ellen Peters, Maggie Wittlin, Paul Slovic, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Donald Braman and Gregory N. Mandel

Yale University - Law School, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - College of Law, Decision Research, Stanford Law School, George Washington University - Law School and Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law

Downloads 2,462

23.

Readings in the Field of Natural Resource & Environmental Economics

KSG Working Paper

Number of pages: 96 Posted: 09 Aug 1999

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Robert N. Stavins and Alexander Pfaff

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Duke University - Policy, Economics, Environment

Downloads 2,422

24.

Climate Change Law: An Introduction

Energy Law Journal, Vol. 29. No. 1, 2008, Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-02

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2015

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John C. Dernbach and Seema M. Kakade

Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and U.S. Department of Energy

Downloads 2,416

25.

Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing

Advances in Political Psychology, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 561

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Asheley R Landrum, Katie Carpenter, Laura Helft and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Yale University - Law School, College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University, Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Tangled Bank Studios and University of Pennsylvania

Downloads 2,402

26.

Green Jobs Myths

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE09-001, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-15

Number of pages: 97 Posted: 12 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014

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Andrew P. Morriss, William T. Bogart, Andrew Dorchak and Roger E. Meiners

Texas A&M School of Law, York College of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University Law Library and University of Texas at Arlington

Downloads 2,374

27.

A Tale of Two Architectures: The Once and Future U.N. Climate Change Regime

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Mar 2011

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Daniel Bodansky

Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Downloads 2,365

28.

The Drivers of Greenwashing

California Management Review

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Dec 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Magali A. Delmas and Vanessa Cuerel Burbano

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management

Downloads 2,248

29.

W[h]ither the Kyoto Protocol? Durban and Beyond

Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 28 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2011

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Daniel Bodansky

Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Downloads 2,232

30.

Water Scarcity, Marketing, and Privatization

Texas Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 7, pp. 1873-1902, June 2005

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Aug 2005

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Robert Glennon

University of Arizona - Rogers College of Law

Downloads 2,223

31.

7 Myths About Green Jobs

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE09-007, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-14

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 20 May 2013

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Andrew P. Morriss, William T. Bogart, Andrew Dorchak and Roger E. Meiners

Texas A&M School of Law, York College of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University Law Library and University of Texas at Arlington

Downloads 2,208

32.

Green is Good: Sustainability, Profitability, and a New Paradigm for Corporate Governance

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 3, 2009

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Judd F. Sneirson

Savannah Law School

Downloads 2,152

33.

Corporate Social Responsibility in China: An Analysis of Domestic and Foreign Retailers' Sustainability Dimensions

Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 289-303, 2010

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2010

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Ans Kolk, Pan Hong and Willemijn van Dolen

University of Amsterdam Business School, Jilin University-Lambton College (JULC) and University of Amsterdam Business School

Downloads 2,126

34.

What is the 'Science of Science Communication'?

Journal of Science Communication, 14(3), 1-10 (2015), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 539

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 2,126

35.

The Relations Among Environmental Disclosure, Environmental Performance, and Economic Performance: A Simultaneous Equations Approach

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Jul 2003

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Sulaiman Al-Tuwaijri, Theodore E. Christensen and K.E. Hughes II

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals - Department of Accounting and Management Info Systems, University of Georgia - J.M. Tull School of Accounting and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration

Downloads 2,101

36.

Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication

Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Sci., 658, 193-222 (2015), doi: 10.1177/0002716214559002

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2015

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Dan M. Kahan, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Tor Tarantola, Carol L Silva and Donald Braman

Yale University - Law School, University of Oklahoma - Department of Political Science, University of Cambridge - Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma - Main - Department of Political Science and George Washington University - Law School

Downloads 2,012

37.

'Voluntary' Approaches to Environmental Regulation: A Survey

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 31 Jan 1999

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Thomas P. Lyon and John W. Maxwell

University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,007

38.

Financial Performance, Pollution Measures and the Propensity to Use Corporate Responsibility Reporting: Implications for Business and Legal Scholarship

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2014

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Adam J. Sulkowski and D. Steven White

Babson College and University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth - Charlton College of Business

Downloads 1,905

39.

Climate Change and International Human Rights Litigation: A Critical Appraisal

University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 329, University of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 148

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Jan 2007

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Eric A. Posner

University of Chicago - Law School

Downloads 1,897

40.

Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, 2006, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 100, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 317

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Sep 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic, Donald Braman and John Gastil

Yale University - Law School, Decision Research, George Washington University - Law School and Pennsylvania State University

Downloads 1,895

41.

The Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm

Emerging Trends in Social & Behavioral Sciences, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 1,876

42.

Strict Liability in International Environmental Law

LAW OF THE SEA, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES: LIBER AMICORUM JUDGE THOMAS A. MENSAH, Tafsir Malick Ndiaye and Rüdiger Wolfrum, eds., Brill Academic Publishers, 2007, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 345, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 345,

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Sep 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Alex Kiss and Dinah L. Shelton

Columbia University and George Washington University - Law School

Downloads 1,855

43.

Challenges to Technology Transfer: A Literature Review of the Constraints on Environmental Technology Dissemination

Colorado College Working Paper No. 2009-07

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Aug 2009

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Daniel K. N. Johnson and Kristina M. Lybecker

Colorado College - Department of Economics and Business and Colorado College - Department of Economics & Business

Downloads 1,846

44.

The International Law of the Sea

THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE SEA, Hart Publishing: Oxford, 2010, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 11/02

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Jan 2011

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Donald R. Rothwell and Tim Stephens

Australian National University - ANU College of Law and The University of Sydney Law School

Downloads 1,845

45.

Predictably Incoherent Judgments

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 131

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 08 Aug 2001

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Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade and Ilana Ritov

Harvard Law School, Princeton University, University of California, San Diego and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - School of Education

Downloads 1,838

46.

Sustainability Reporting Frameworks

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 17 May 2006

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Nigel Finch

Saki Partners

Downloads 1,824

47.

Genetically Modified Organisms and Justice: The International Environmental Justice Implications of Biotechnology

Georgetown International Environmental Law Review (GIELR), Vol. 19, p. 583, 2007

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 May 2007 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Carmen G. Gonzalez

Seattle University School of Law

Downloads 1,820

48.

Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 227

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Oct 2004

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 1,809

49.

Gender, Race, and Risk Perception: The Influence of Cultural Status Anxiety

1st Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 16 May 2005

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Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman, John Gastil, Paul Slovic and C. K. Mertz

Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, Pennsylvania State University, Decision Research and Decision Research

Downloads 1,805

50.

How Behavioral Economics Trims Its Sails and Why

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 127, 2014, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-29

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 27 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Ryan Bubb and Richard H. Pildes

New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law

Downloads 1,799

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