Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2007

Abstract

Hurricane Katrina's overriding lesson for environmental law is no less than our environmental lawmaking institutions require fundamental reformation. Otherwise, the nation's tragic failure not only to enact laws that anticipate the obvious risks presented to the Gulf Region by hurricanes, but perversely to increase those risks by destroying the ecosystem's natural protections, will inevitably be repeated with even more devastating results.

Comments

Originally published in 81 Tul. L. Rev. 1019-58 (2007). Reprinted with the permission of the Tulane Law Review Association, which holds the copyright."

Publication Citation

81 Tul. L. Rev. 1019-1058 (2007)

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