Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Bruce Babbitt
  • PART I : REFLECTIONS ON NATURAL RESOURCES LAW AND POLICY: Historical evolution and future of natural resources law and policy / Sally Fairfax, Helen M. Ingram, Leigh Raymond
  • Ethical perspectives on resources law and policy : global warming and our common future / Sarah Krakoff
  • Why care about the polar bear? : economic analysis of natural resources law and policy / Lisa Heinzerling
  • The growing influence of tort and property law on natural resources law : case studies of coalbed methane development and geologic carbon sequestration / Alexandra B. Klass
  • Better ways to work together / Eric T. Freyfogle
  • Constitutional law and the future of natural resource protection / James R. May
  • The federalism dynamic in natural resources law / Robert L. Fischman.
  • II : THE EVOLUTION OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Embracing a civic republican tradition in natural resources decision-making / Mark Squillace
  • Inventorying the public lands : why naming and labeling matter in natural resources law and management / James Rasband
  • Saving special places : trends and challenges for protecting public lands / Robert B. Keiter
  • Dam building and removal on the Elwha : a prototype of adaptive mismanagement and a tribal opportunity / William H. Rodgers, Jr.
  • The future public law of private ecosystems : merging a mantra, a metric, and a method / J. B. Ruhl
  • Water law and management : an urbanizing and greener West copes with new challenges / David H. Getches, A. Dan Tarlock
  • The future of mineral development on federal lands / John D. Leshy
  • The future of America's forests and grasslands : globalization, crowded landscapes, change, and the National Environmental Policy Act / Federico Cheever.