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title: Environmental Policy & Law
description: This subject explores the legal frameworks and policy instruments used to address environmental degradation. Learners will understand how environmental statutes, treaties, and regulatory agencies function to protect air, water, endangered species, and public health.
category: sciences
subcategory: earth-and-environmental-science
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/environmental-policy-and-law
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# Environmental Policy & Law

This subject explores the legal frameworks and policy instruments used to address environmental degradation. Learners will understand how environmental statutes, treaties, and regulatory agencies function to protect air, water, endangered species, and public health.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 1 Courses • 1 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Environmental Policy

University of Michigan course tracing the environmental justice movement from protests over toxic waste siting to current debates. Examines distributive, procedural, retributive, restorative and reparative justice so learners can analyze who bears environmental harms and how policy and law respond.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/environmental-justice

**Tags:** courses, science-research, environmental-science

## Books

### 1. The Making of Environmental Law

**Author:** Richard J. Lazarus

History of US federal environmental law from the landmark 1970s statutes onward. Explains why pollution and conservation laws were designed as they were, and how Congress, the courts, agencies and shifting politics have shaped their implementation, gridlock and periodic reform.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226469727?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, science-research, environmental-science

## Websites

### 1. unfccc.int

UNFCCC.int is the official site of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, central to international climate policy and negotiations. It provides official texts, decisions, and reports (including the Paris Agreement and Kyoto Protocol), meeting schedules and proceedings (COPs), national communications, news, and resources for Parties and stakeholders.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://unfccc.int

**Tags:** websites, science-research, environmental-science

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