Research Guides: UEP 300 Environmental Law and Policy: About UEP 300

UEP 300 Environmental Law and Policy

This course analyzes the legal and policy framework for environmental protection and environmental justice. The course covers the major environmental statutes, applicable civil rights laws, and the next wave of climate change litigation.

This course will also place environmental law and policy within the larger conversation around environmental protection and climate change.

Credits: 4 units Prerequisite: UEP 101 Environment and Society

Core requirement for the Urban and Environmental Policy Major

Urban and Environmental Policy Department: https://www.oxy.edu/academics/areas-study/urban-environmental-policy

Required Text

Climate Change from the Streets by Michael Mendez
ISBN: 9780300232158
Date: 2020-01-07
An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy. Mendez explores the perspectives and influence that low-income people of color bring to their advocacy work on climate change. In California, activist groups have galvanized behind issues such as air pollution, poverty alleviation, and green jobs to advance equitable climate solutions at the local, state, and global levels. Arguing that environmental protection and improving public health are inextricably linked, Mendez contends that we must incorporate local knowledge, culture, and history into policymaking to fully address the global complexities of climate change and the real threats facing our local communities.

Optional Text:

Environmental Law and Policy, 5th edition (2019)
By: Salzman, James E.;Thompson Jr., Barton H.
Available online.
*E-book access limited to two readers at a time. Please close out of the book when you are finished to allow others access.

Environmental Law and Policy (6th edition) by James Salzman; Barton Thompson Jr.
Call Number: *In Course Reserves
ISBN: 9781685615727
Date: 2024-08-22
Provides a broad conceptual overview of environmental law while also explaining the major statutes and cases, including policy initiatives of the Biden Administration, important recent Supreme Court decisions through the 2023-2024 term (Sackett, Loper Bright Enterprises, Jarkesy, Cedar Point Nursery), and the emerging role of Native American tribes in environmental law.