Classic Lessons from a Little Fish in a Pork Barrel - Featuring the Notorious Story of the Endangered Snail Darter and the

Informationen zum Autor Zygmunt J. B. Plater is a professor of law at Boston College Law School, teaching and researching in the areas of environmental, property, land use, and administrative agency law. Over the past 30 years he has been involved with a number of issues of environmental protection and land-use regulation. Klappentext The 'snail darter story' has become an iconic episode in modern American history - a classic case regularly voted one of the top three Supreme Court environmental decisions but also enjoying dubious public notoriety as the 'Most Extreme Environmental Case Ever'. Behind the fish marched a bedraggled coalition: farmers whose land was being condemned for resale to private developers, Cherokee Indians, fishermen, local conservationists, and Zygmunt Plater and his students. Zusammenfassung This 2011 Wallace Stegner Lecture focuses on the story of the endangered snail darter! known as the "Most Extreme Environmental Case Ever.""

Product details

• Authors: Zygmunt J. B. Plater
• Publisher: The University of Utah Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9781607811909
• ISBN: 978-1-60781-190-9
• No. of pages: 20
• Series: Wallace Stegner Lecture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science