Climate Change Book

Professor Latin has almost completed a
 book that is expected to be published
in February or March, 2012:

CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY FAILURES:
Why Conventional Mitigation
 Approaches Cannot Succeed
 
World Scientific Publishers,
 $29.95 for the hardcover edition
(discount for students).

Publisher's Website for Book Sales

 

Nearly all climate change programs now rely on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-reduction targets that will prove “too little, too late” by deferring essential pollution control too far into the future.  Rather than depending on  many ineffectual emissions-reduction programs, we need to shift to a “clean” GHG-free replacement-technology strategy that can support greater economic and social development without further damaging the climate.

Table of Contents

Summary of Mitigation Mistakes

Excerpts from Chapter II

 

             Legal Education

During the 2011/2012 academic year, Professor Latin will teach three courses that have separate pages and materials on this web site.  Students or interested faculty can double-click on these links to see the assignments, materials, and syllabus for each course:

Torts

  Products Liability

Global Climate Change

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Legal and scientific materials are also
available on these subjects:

toxic torts
toxic substances regulation
admissibility of scientific evidence
medical reform policies

   Biodiversity Conservation

Following a Fulbright Scholar visit to South Africa in 1997, Professor Howard Latin of Rutgers Law School founded EcoVitality, a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization, to help promote biodiversity conservation in remote areas of developing nations.

The central theme of EcoVitality projects was that most people in most remote regions will not protect the wildlife and ecosystems unless they can be persuaded that they will be better off preserving their environmental resources than exploiting the resources unsustainably. EcoVitality's volunteer staff set up several demonstration projects to show that combining economic, ecological,  and cultural benefits for local people could help promote biodiversity conservation in many regions that otherwise will suffer irreparable natural resources exploitation.

Unfortunately, EcoVitality could not obtain sufficient funding after the terrorist attack on 9/11/2001, and we gradually ran out of money and supporters over the next several years. Nevertheless, the project designs were often novel and may still be worth considering for their experiential value.  Here is a brief description of various conservation and development projects we started.

As a result of inadequate funding and staff departures, Professor Latin has shifted the EcoVitality main website focus to promoting environmental and safety education. He uses the EcoVitality website to provide class assignments, course materials and research resources for students in his classes and for scholars and others working in his fields.