Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature

Keith Hirokawa is an Associate Professor of Law at the Albany Law School. His scholarship has explored convergences in ecology, ethics, economics and law, with particular attention given to local environmental law, ecosystem services policy, watershed management and environmental impact analysis. He has authored dozens of professional and scholarly articles in these areas and has co-edited (with Dean Patricia Salkin) Greening Local Government (2012).

1. Nature in a constructed world: grounding the constructivist method Rik Scarce and Keith H. Hirokawa; 2. An unnatural divide: how law obscures individual environmental harms Katrina Fischer Kuh; 3. Defining nature as a common pool resource Jonathan D. Rosenbloom; 4. Property constructs and nature's challenge to property perpetuity Jessica Owley; 5. Perceiving change and knowing nature: shifting baselines and nature's resiliency Robin Kundis Craig; 6. Animals and law in the American city Irus Braverman; 7. Boundaries of nature and the American city Stephen R. Miller; 8. Constructing nature the radical way: extreme environmentalism and law Rik Scarce; 9. Wilderness imperatives and untrammeled nature Sandra B. Zellmer; 10. Native American values and laws of exclusion Catherine Iorns-Magallanes; 11. Challenging what appears 'natural': the environmental justice movement's impact on the environmental agenda Shannon M. Roesler; 12. The transformation of water Dan A. Tarlock; 13. Framing watersheds Craig Anthony Arnold; 14. The last, last frontier Michael Burger.