Nature's trust : environmental law for a new ecological age / Mary Christina Wood, University of Oregon, School of Law.
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...
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2014.
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Table of 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.