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Nature's trust : environmental law for a new ecological age
Title:
Nature's trust : environmental law for a new ecological age
Author:
Wood, Mary Christina, author.
ISBN:
9780521195133

9780521144117
Physical Description:
xxiii, 436 pages ; 24 cm
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.