Nature's trust : environmental law for a new ecological age / Mary Christina Wood, University of Oregon, School of Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Mary Christina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law--United States.

Environmental law.

Environmental law--Philosophy.

United States.

Conservation of natural resources--Law and legislation--United States.

Conservation of natural resources.

Conservation of natural resources--Law and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 436 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Environmental law has failed us all. As ecosystems collapse across the globe and the climate crisis intensifies, environmental agencies worldwide use their authority to permit the very harm that they are supposed to prevent. Growing numbers of citizens now realize they must act before it is too late. This book exposes what is wrong with environmental law and offers transformational change based on the public trust doctrine. An ancient and enduring principle, the trust doctrine asserts public property rights to crucial resources. Its core logic compels government, as trustee, to protect natural inheritance such as air and water for all humanity. Propelled by populist impulses and democratic imperatives, the public trust surfaces at epic times in history as a manifest human right. But until now it has lacked the precision necessary for citizens, government employees, legislators, and judges to fully safeguard the natural resources we rely on for survival and prosperity. The Nature's Trust approach empowers citizens worldwide to protect their inalienable ecological rights for generations to come.

Contents:

"You are doing a great job"

Modern environmental law : the great legal experiment

The politics of discretion

Behind the grand facade

The administrative tyranny over nature

The inalienable attribute of sovereignty

The ecological res

Fiduciary standards of protection and restoration

From bureaucrats to trustees

Beyond borders : shared ecology and the duties of sovereign co-tenant trustees

Nature's justice : the role of the courts

Nature's trust and the heart of humanity

Using earth's interest, not its principal

The public trust and private property rights

The new world : a planetary trust.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781139013819

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.