in this paper, we introduce environmental systems engineering (ese) and describe some of its applications combined with process systems engineering (pse) to problems related to environmental systems. these systems—the water cycle and ecosystem cycles—are complex and highly dynamic, with an uncertainty level comparable to that of chemical systems. to illustrate the challenges of applying pse to...


 This Note poses the question of whether—and how—lawmaking can create a platform for promoting an environmental ethic. There is body scholarship about how values or virtue ethics impact lawmaking, but this also explores opposite—how lawmaking impacts public. Environmental ethicists disagree very origins ethics. Some thinkers believe that stem from “core values” are inherent to human natur...

This article discusses and analyzes the Judicial Activism and its application in protecting environment, and steps taken by judiciary to accelerate this objective. The main objective behind this research is to identify the contemporary picture and study the nature and extent of till date developments in various environmental statuses through judicial procedure. It also analyzes the role of judi...

This paper brings together applied analysis under simplifying assumption and new research on principles for environmental protection when government is costly. The cost effectiveness analysisthe ranking in the control cost curveapplies under optimal taxation in the more general case, but the optimal environmental quality is adjusted.

The theory of regulatory competition in environmental policy predicts a 'race to the bottom' of standards. This article tests the theory using environmental output data for 24 countries from 1970 to 2005. It finds a clear 'race to the top' and a search for international harmonization when competition is imminent.

T hroughout the long history of the relationship between markets and government, the drafting of regulation has all too often been driven by the ideological winds of the moment. But raw ideology is a poor road map for guiding regulatory policy, for two reasons. First, the nuanced “real world” rarely conforms to the purity offered by either an unquestioning loyalty to the A J O U R N A L O F I D...