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 • Through history, people have sought to purposefully shape their environments through environmental law. The effectiveness of those attempts is likely to relate to the law’s ability to accurately understand and predict the impacts of law on people’s decision making.

 • Environmental law incorporates a variety of potential normative goals, as well as a variety of different means for shaping people’s behavior to those ends. Although psychology is not helpful in determining which goals it is best to pursue, it can help in illuminating how, when, and why people may select the ends that they do and in identifying more effective means to accomplish selected ends.

 • Large portions of U.S. environmental law were created in the “Environmental Decade” of the 1970s, and predate the vast majority of research on social science and the law.

 • Environmental law is implemented by people acting within various roles and institutions, such as international bodies, national and subnational bodies, branches of government, administrative agencies, and even at the individual level. The role in which someone is operating will sometimes expand and sometimes limit why, when, and how they perceive, understand, and respond to environmental injury.