Faculty Sustainability Publications

Brown, C. “The Special Purpose District Reconsidered: The Fifth Circuit’s Recent Declaration that the Edwards Aquifer Authority is a Special Purpose District Under the Voting Rights Act, and the Tortured History that Led to That Decision,” 27 Hastings Environmental Law Journal No.1 (Winter 2021).

Fields, B., & Renne, J. L. (2021). Adaptation urbanism and resilient communities: transforming streets to address climate change. Routledge.

Rahm, D. (2019). U.S. Environmental Policy: Domestic and Global Perspectives. West Academic Publishing.

Rangarajan, N., & Joshi, S. (2019). Sustainability education in public administration and policy: A multi-method study of NASPAA accredited programs. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 25(3), 343-363.

Fields, B., Thomas, J., & Wagner, J. A. (2017). Living with Water in the Era of Climate Change: Lessons from the Lafitte Greenway in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 37(3), 309–321.

Rangarajan, N & Rahm, D. (2013) San Antonio’s Mission Verde and Leading by Example Initiatives.  "Local Economic Development and the Environment: Finding Common Ground” Edited by Osgood, Jefferey et al.  Boca Raton: CRC Press,Taylor & Francis.

Brown, C. “National Pork Producers Council v. E.P.A.: Ethical Implications of Mistaken Decision that Curtailed Water Quality Enforcement Against Factory Farms.” 54 South Texas Law Review (459, 460) (2013).

Brown, C. “Dairy Discharges: How Misguided Federal Decisions on Surface Water Quality Also Harm New Mexico’s Tributary Groundwater.”  42(2) New Mexico Law Review. (Summer 2012).

Brown, Christopher. (2012) Proposed CAFO Information Disclosure Rules and Their Potential to Improve Water Quality. Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 3 (2).

Rangarajan, N., & Rahm, D. (2011). Greening Human Resources: A Survey of City-Level Initiatives. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 31(3), 227–247.

Brown, C. “Uncooperative Federalism, Mistaken Textualism:  The Federal Courts’ Hostility Toward Pre-Discharge Regulation of Confined Animal Feeding Operations under the Clean Water Act.”  30(2) Temple Journal of Science, Technology, and the Environment 175 (175-219) (Winter 2011).

Brown, C. “When the ‘Plain Text’ Isn’t So Plain: How National Pork Producers Council Restricts the Clean Water Act’s Purpose and Impairs Its Enforcement Against Factory Farms.” 16(3) Drake Journal of Agricultural Law 375 (375-428) (Fall 2011).

Brown, C. R. & Farrar, B. “Gone to Texas: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, The Texas Compliance History System, and the Need for Better Regulation of Out-of-State Applicants.”  42(1) Texas Environmental Law Journal, 1,1 (1-25) (Fall 2011).

Rahm, D. (2010). Climate change policy in the United States: the science, the politics, and the prospects for change. McFarland.

Brown, C. R. “A Litigious Proposal: Judicial Reasoning on Climate Change, the Current Absence of Real Federal Regulation, and the Resulting Duty of Citizens to Combat Climate Change in the Courts.”  25(2) Journal of Law and Litigation 249, (385-458) (Winter 2010).

Fields, B. (2009) From Green Dots to Greenways: Planning in the Age of Climate Change in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Journal of Urban Design, 14:3, 325-344.

Thai, K. V., Rahm, D., & Coggburn, J. D. (2007). Handbook of globalization and the environment. CRC Press.

Rahm, D. (2006). Sustainable energy and the states: essays on politics, markets and leadership. McFarland & Co.

Rahm, D., Swatuk, L., & Matheny, E. (2006). Water Resource Management in Botswana: Balancing Sustainability and Economic Development*. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 8(1), 157–183.

Coggburn, J.D. and Rahm, D. (2005), "Environmentally preferable purchasing: Who is doing what in the united states?", Journal of Public Procurement, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 23-53.