- Subjects
- Published
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 436 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-428) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780521144117
9780521195133
- Part I. Environmental Law: Hospice for a Dying Planet?
- 1. 'You are doing a great job'
- 2. The great legal experiment
- 3. The politics of discretion
- 4. Behind the grand façade
- 5. The administrative tyranny over nature
- Part II. The People's Natural Trust
- 6. The inalienable attribute of sovereignty
- 7. The ecological res
- 8. Fiduciary standards of protection and restoration
- 9. From bureaucrats to trustees
- 10. Beyond borders: shared ecology and the duties of sovereign co-tenant trustees
- 11. Nature's justice: the role of the courts
- Part III. The Public Trust and the Great Turning
- 12. Nature's trust and the heart of humanity
- 13. Using Earth's interest, not its principal
- 14. The public trust and private property rights
- 15. The new world: a planetary trust