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Many people and institutions behave in ways that impact the environment. In fact, environmental law is notable for implicating many different legal and institutional decision makers, each of whom acts in different circumstances and in light of different contextual cues. One of the key insights of modern cognitive psychology is that context matters to the substance of decision making. This means that the institutional and personal contexts in which people make decisions about environmental law and policy can affect the substance of those decisions.

This section provides an overview and orientation into some key institutional actors in environmental law, and how their roles affect them. To that end, the section begins by refreshing the reader on key aspects of how institutional context can matter to decision making. It then highlights legal decision makers who play important roles in environmental law, including international actors, the executive, legislatures, judges, and agencies. The chapter provides an overview of the role(s) these actors play in environmental law, and the kind of environmental decisions in which they are most influential, before identifying the contextual aspect(s) of decision making that make that actor’s decisions psychologically distinctive.