Conservation Floors and Degradation Ceilings: A Justificatory Architecture for Constraints in U.S. Environmental Policy

U.S. conservation policy, both in structure and in practice, places a heavy burden on conservationists to halt development projects, rather than on advocates of development to defend their proposed actions. In this paper, we identify this structural phenomenon in several landmark environmental polic...

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Subtitles:"Special Issue: Adapting Environmental Ethics to Rapid, Anthropogenic, and Global Ecological Change"
Authors: Lee, Alexander (Author) ; Hamilton, Alex (Author) ; Hale, Benjamin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Center for Environmental Philosophy, University of North Texas 2020
In: Environmental ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-148
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