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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laitos, Jan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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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?