SelectedWorks - Mary Jane Angelo

Selected Works of Mary Jane Angelo

Emeritus Professor of Law

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Present	Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
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Discordant Environmental Laws: Using Statutory Flexibility and Multi-Objective Optimization to Reconcile Conflicting Laws (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2019)

The current morass of federal environmental laws has led to significant conflicts among statutes and the manner in which agencies implement them. In recent years, this quagmire of environmental laws has hindered the progress of ...

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Whole-System Agricultural Certification: Using Lessons Learned From Leed to Build a Resilient Agricultural System to Adapt to Climate Change (Mary Jane Angelo and Joanna Reilly-Brown) UF Law Faculty Publications (2014)

This Article proposes a novel approach to addressing global climate change's impacts on agricultural production and food security. The climate change crisis is the most significant environmental issue facing our planet. The changes predicted to ...

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Maintaining a Healthy Water Supply While Growing a Healthy Food Supply: Legal Tools For Cleaning Up Agricultural Water Pollution (Mary Jane Angelo and Jon Morris) UF Law Faculty Publications (2014)

This article will explore a number of legal mechanisms that could play a role in ensuring that discharges from agricultural activities do not cause or contribute to violations of water quality standards. Specifically, this article ...

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Small, Slow, and Local: Essays on Building a More Sustainable and Local Food System (Mary Jane Angelo, Amelia Timbers, Matthew J. Walker, et al.) UF Law Faculty Publications (2011)

A collection of essays that have strong arguments in favor of shifting from our existing centralized industrial agricultural system to a more localized system. This shift will reduce reliance on fossils fuels, which are used ...

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Corn, Carbon, and Conservation: Rethinking U.S. Agricultural Policy in a Changing Global Environment (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2010)

This Article explores a range of issues related to both the regulatory and incentive-based federal programs that affect the crops we grow, the manner in which they are grown, and the human and environmental impacts ...

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Modernizing Water Law: The Example of Florida (Christine A. Klein, Mary Jane Angelo and Richard Hamann) UF Law Faculty Publications (2009)

This Article takes a national view of the modernization of water law. Using Florida as an example, it identifies some of the most important and controversial challenges faced by states. Part II provides an overview ...

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Stumbling Toward Success: A Story of Adaptive Law and Ecological Resilience (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2009)

For decades, scientific and legal scholars alike have promoted the concept of "adaptive management" as a necessary approach to meaningful environmental management, restoration, and regulation. Unfortunately, adaptive management success stories are few and far between. ...

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Harnessing the Power of Science in Environmental Law: Why We Should, Why We Don't, and How We Can (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2008)

To illustrate how legal scholars, lawmakers, environmental agencies, and practicing lawyers have attempted to incorporate new scientific developments into environmental law, particularly in the administrative context, this Article traces the journeys of three distinct scientific ...

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The Killing Fields: Reducing the Casualties in the Battle Between U.S. Species Protection Law and U.S. Pesticide Law (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2008)

For the past 35 years, the conflicting goals, standards, focuses, and methods of United States species protection laws and United States pesticide law have produced a fierce legal battle. The unwitting casualties of this battle ...

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Incorporating Emergy Synthesis into Environmental Law: An Integration of Ecology, Economics, and Law (Mary Jane Angelo and Mark T. Brown) UF Law Faculty Publications (2007)

Emergy synthesis, flrst developed by Dr. Howard T. Odum in the 1970s, and further expanded and refined by other scholars over the past thirty years, has the potential to transform environmental decisionmaking by providing a ...

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Regulating Evolution for Sale: An Evolutionary Biology Model for Regulating the Unnatural Selection of Genetically Modified Organisms (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2007)

In recent years, there has been an explosion in the genetic manipulation of living organisms to create commercial products. This genetic manipulation has, in effect, been a directed change in the evolutionary process for the ...

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Embracing Uncertainty, Complexity, and Change: An Eco-pragmatic Reinvention of a First-Generation Environmental Law (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2006)

Recent scientific reports demonstrate that despite more than thirty years of environmental regulation, bird and wildlife species as well as ecosystem services, are in unprecedented decline. Pesticides are at least in part to blame for ...

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Redressing the Failure of Environmental Law to Protect Birds and their Habitat (Mary Jane Angelo and Anthony J. Cotter) UF Law Faculty Publications (2005)

The Audubon Report indicates that the forty-seven bird species occupying grassland habitats may be at the greatest risk. This category has the highest proportion of species at great risk of extinction. The risk of extinction ...

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Exalting the Corporate Form over Environmental Protection the Corporate Shell Game and the Enforcement of Water Management Law in Florida (Mary Jane Angelo, Charles Lobdell and Tara Boonstra) UF Law Faculty Publications (2001)

Current laws in Florida afford substantial protection to the “people behind the corporations” (corporate principals) and generally do not allow environmental permitting agencies such as the water management districts to consider such people in their ...

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Integrating Water Management and Land Use Planning: Uncovering the Missing Link in the Protection of Florida's Water Resources? (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2001)

Except for limited provisions, Florida law does not establish a formal link between land planning and water planning. In light of the importance of water resources for the future development of the State, this is ...

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Integrating Water Management and Land Use Planning: Uncovering the Missing Link in the Protection of Florida’s Water Resources? (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2001)

This Article explores the link between water management and land use planning. First, in Section II, this Article provides an overview of water management in Florida. Then, in Section III, this Article analyzes the differences ...

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Florida's Troubled Phosphate Companies: Can Bankruptcy Law Be Used to Relieve Their Obligation to Reclaim the Land? (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (1996)

The conflict that brings us here arises when the earth is disturbed and the environment in which we live is threatened. . . . On the one hand are the corporations who mine phosphate reserves ...

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A Model Wetlands Protection Ordinance: Legal Considerations (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (1987)

Many counties in Florida are currently in the process of developing new wetlands protection ordinances, or revising old ones. While public policy supports strict regulation of activities in wetlands, many counties are reluctant to adopt ...

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Genetically Engineered Plant Pesticides: Recent Developments in the EPA's Regulation of Biotechnology (Mary Jane Angelo) UF Law Faculty Publications (1986)

This paper examines the EPA's new policy regulating plant pesticides and presents the legal, scientific and policy issues surrounding the regulation of genetically engineered plants. Part I introduces the concepts covered in this paper. Part ...

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Food Security, Industrialized Agriculture, and a Changing Global Climate: Perspectives on the United States and Cuba (Mary Jane Angelo) Florida Journal of International Law

Food Security, Industrialized Agriculture, and a Changing Global Climate: Perspectives on the United States and Cuba

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Corn, Carbon, and Conservation: Rethinking U.S. Agricultural Policy in a Changing Global Environment (Mary Jane Angelo) ExpressO (2009)

ABSTRACT CORN, CARBON AND CONSERVATION: RETHINKING U.S. AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT Mary Jane Angelo In the past few years, the public has renewed its interest in ensuring that the food it eats ...

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The Killing Fields: Reducing the Casualties in the Battle Between U.S. Species Protection Law and U.S. Pesticide Law (Mary Jane Angelo) ExpressO (2007)

ABSTRACT The Killing Fields: Reducing the Casualties in the Battle Between U.S. Species Protection Law and U.S. Pesticide Law Mary Jane Angelo, University of Florida Levin College of Law For the past 35 years a ...

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