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RECORD NUMBER: 41 OF 64| Main Title | Nature's trust : environmental law for a new ecological age / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Wood, Mary Christina, | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 2014 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 840927802 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 0521195136; 9780521195133; 0521144116; 9780521144117 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Environmental law--United States ; Conservation of natural resources--Law and legislation--United States ; Environmental law--Philosophy | |||||||||||
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| Collation | xxiii, 436 pages ; 24 cm | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-428) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | "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. |