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Health Impact Assessments: A New Tool for Analyzing Land Use Plans, Zone Changes, and Development Projects
Elisabeth Haub Law School of Law Pace University Land Use Law Center Supervisor: John R. Nolon, Distinguished Professor Blog No. 30 of the Land Use, Human Health, and Equity Project Editor: Brooke Mercaldi Contributing Author: Abigail Dove [*] Health Impact...
Designing the 4ºC Electricity System to Achieve a 2ºC Future
In August, 2021, for the first time ever, the federal government declared a water shortage in the Colorado River basin. While the declaration was not necessarily surprising—the Colorado River has been in an official state of drought for the past 22 years and experts...
Western Water Rights in a 4°C Future
Western water rights reflect a short and stable climate history, but that period of stability is ending. Looming climate change of 4°C will produce not only higher temperatures, but decreased snowpack, shifts in runoff patterns, and the dramatic shrinkage of giant...
Adapting to a 4°C World: Essays from the Environmental Law Collaborative
By Shannon Roesler (Professor of Law, The University of Iowa College of Law)[*] The Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC) comprises a rotating group of law professors who assemble every other year to think, discuss, and write on an important and intriguing theme in...
GreenLawBlog co-hosts Env Law Prof Blog Series ‘Adapting to a 4°C World: Essays from the Environmental Law Collaborative’
This month of October, Pace | Haub Environmental Law's GreenLawBlog will be co-hosting, with Environmental Law Prof Blog, a series of essays by the Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC) on the adaptation challenges of the worst-case climate scenario: a world that...
Addressing the Four Pandemics – A Case Study
Elisabeth Haub Law School of Law Pace University Land Use Law Center Supervisor: John R. Nolon, Distinguished Professor Blog No. 29 of the Land Use, Human Health, and Equity Project Editor: Brooke Mercaldi Contributing Author: Gabriella Mickel [*] Addressing the Four...
Reversing the Legacy of Redlining: Reducing Exposure to Toxins and Pollutants Through Land Use Law Reform
Elisabeth Haub Law School of Law Pace University Land Use Law Center Supervisor: John R. Nolon, Distinguished Professor Blog No. 28 of the Land Use, Human Health, and Equity Project Editor: Brooke Mercaldi Contributing Author: Gabriella Mickel [*] Reversing the Legacy...
Equity-Based Comprehensive Plans: Land Use Policies to Correct Past Disparities
Elisabeth Haub Law School of Law Pace University Land Use Law Center Supervisor: John R. Nolon, Distinguished Professor Blog No. 27 of the Land Use, Human Health, and Equity Project Editor: Brooke Mercaldi Contributing Author: Rhea Mallett [*] ...
A New Era of Equity-Based Comprehensive Planning…Finally
Elisabeth Haub Law School of Law Pace University Land Use Law Center Supervisor: John R. Nolon, Distinguished Professor Blog No. 26 of the Land Use, Human Health, and Equity Project Editor: Brooke Mercaldi Contributing Author: Rhea Mallett [*] A New Era of...