The right of nonuse /
This different perspective on the real causes of the ills plaguing the world's resources and environment re-examines the very nature of nature, and from this new perspective, argues that what is needed is for humans to grant to natural resources a legal right to be left alone - a right of nonus...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Part One : Introduction
- The nature of nature
- Part Two : A social-economic history of resource use and nonuse
- Defining natural resources use and nonuse
- Era I : the age of human survival
- Era II : the age of the market
- Era III : the age of property
- Era IV : the Anthrocene age
- Era V : the age of ecocentrism
- Part Three : A legal history of resource use and nonuse
- An introduction to the history of law and natural resources
- First-generation laws : creating use interests in natural resources
- Second-generation laws : protecting human nonuse interests
- Proposed second-generation laws : protecting human nonuse interests by acknowledging the public interest in natural resources
- Toward a third generation of nonanthropocentric resource nonuse laws
- Part Four : revealing the nonuse component of natural resources
- The biology of resource nonuse
- The science of resource nonuse
- The economics of resource nonuse
- Part Five : Toward a legally acknowledged right of nonuse
- The problem of government regulation : the emerging shift from anthropocentric to ecocentric nonuse laws
- The problem of rights creation : can natural resources have legal rights?
- The problem of standing : may natural resources raise their own right of nonuse?