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Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism
The Environmental Law Reporter
  • Shalanda H. Baker, University of Hawai’i School of Law
  • Robin Kundis Craig, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
  • John C. Dernbach, Widener University Commonwealth Law School
  • Keith Hirokawa, Albany Law School
  • Sarah Krakoff, University of Colorado Law School
  • Jessica Owley, SUNY Buffalo Law School
  • Melissa Powers, Lewis & Clark Law School
  • Shannon Roesler, Oklahoma City University School of Law
  • Jonathan Rosenbloom, Drake University Law School
  • J. B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt University
  • Jim Salzman, UCSB Bren School and UCLA Law School
  • Inara Scott, Oregon State University
  • David Takacs, UC Hastings College of Law
Document Type
Article
Year
2017
Abstract

Environmental law and environmental protection are often portrayed as requiring trade offs: “jobs versus environment,” “markets versus regulation,” “enforcement versus incentives .” In the summer of 2016, members of the Environmental Law Collaborative gathered to consider how environmentalism and environmental regulation can advance beyond this framing to include new constituents and offer new pathways to tackle the many significant challenges ahead . Months later, the initial activities of the Trump Administration highlighted the use of zero-sum rhetoric, with the appointment of government officials and the issuance of executive orders that indeed seem to view environmental issues as in a zero-sum relationship with jobs or economic progress . In the essays below, the authors explore the meaning and the role of zero-sum environmentalism as a first step in moving beyond it .

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Citation Information
Shalanda Baker, Robin Kundis Craig, John Dernbach, Keith Hirokawa, Sarah Krakoff, Jessica Owley, Melissa Powers, Shannon Roesler, Jonathan Rosenbloom, J.B. Ruhl, Jim Salzman, Inara Scott & David Takacs, Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism, 47 Envtl. L. Rep. 10328 (2017), available at https://www.elr.info/articles/elr-articles/beyond-zero-sum-environmentalism.