Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Rights
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 this series of essays, the authors explore the meaning and the role of zero-sum environmentalism as a first step in moving beyond it.
Publication Title
Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis
First Page
10328
Last Page
10351
Recommended Citation
Shalanda Baker, Robin K. Craig, John C. Dernbach, Keith H. Hirokawa, Sarah Krakoff, Jessica Owley, Melissa Powers, Shannon M. Roesler, Jonathan Rosenbloom, J. B. Ruhl, James Salzman, Inara Scott & David Takacs,
Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism,
47
Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis
10328
(2017).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/191