LAWS 7702
Identifying stakeholders; understanding core interests; communication and limiting of misunderstandings; justifying aspirations; litigation; of general applicability to environmental problems; aimed at the first and third party participant.
This course will study the writings of leading conservation philosophers and examine the extent to which their ideas have influenced federal and state policy and law. Issues to be studied will include biocentrism, homocentrism, utilitarianism, preservation of wild area, economic analysis, natural resource planning, and integrated resource management. Students should have a solid working knowledge of natural resources policy and law.