Biggest Ideas

John Bonine of Oregon -- who always has great questions -- offered a list of biggest ideas in Environmental Law over the summer on ENVLAWPROFESSORS and solicited additions.  So far, here's the first draft of our collective wisdom:

1. attorneys fees - (environmental plaintiff friendly rules)
2. biodiversity preservation
3. citizen suits
4. cost/benefit analysis
5. cost/benefit balancing as pollution standard setting approach (as well as  health/environmental quality and technology based models)
6. ecologically sustainable development
7. economic incentives approaches
8. ecosystem services
9. ecosystem management (indicator species or other)
10. environmental impact assessment
11. free market environmentalism (not the same as 4 or 6)
12. information strategies (e.g. TRI)
13. injunctions - relaxed standard
14. mitigation/compensation
15. polluter pays principle
16. precautionary principle
17. preservation of wild and lonely places
18. public participation/citizen democracy
19. public trust doctrine
20. risk assessment (similar to 4, but different)
21. standing - relaxed standard for judicial review of administrative action
22. strict or absolute liability
23. technology forcing approaches to regulation

Feel free to add others!