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In developing a psychological approach to environmental law and policy, it may be helpful to consider what is distinctively environmental, distinctively psychological, and distinctively legal about the psychology of environmental law. In this chapter, we have suggested that much of what is distinctively environmental about environmental law—namely, its focus on diffuse, complex, and nonhuman environmental harms—also implicates a distinctive psychology, which should focus on those same characteristics. We have also suggested that the legal and institutional mechanisms used to implement environmental law and policy may interact with the environmental and psychological qualities of environmental injury in ways that legal decision makers would do well to note. We expand on all of these ideas in subsequent chapters.