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Nature's trust : environmental law for a new ecological age / Mary Christina Wood, University of Oregon, School of Law.

by Wood, Mary Christina.

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Cambridge University Press, c2014.

344.73046 W877n

Conservation of natural resources -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Environmental law -- Philosophy.

Environmental law -- United States.

9780521144117 (pbk.)

0521144116 (pbk.)

9780521195133 (hc.)

0521195136 (hc.)

xxiii, 436 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

"As ecosystems collapse across the globe and the climate crisis intensifies, environmental agencies worldwide use their authority to permit the very harm that they are supposed to prevent. Growing numbers of citizens now realize they must act before it is too late. This book exposes what is wrong with environmental law and offers transformational change based on the public trust doctrine. An ancient and enduring principle, the trust doctrine asserts public property rights to crucial resources. Its core logic compels government, as trustee, to protect natural inheritance such as air and water for all humanity. Propelled by populist impulses and democratic imperatives, the public trust surfaces at epic times in history as a manifest human right. But until now it has lacked the precision necessary for citizens, government employees, legislators, and judges to fully safeguard the natural resources we rely on for survival and prosperity. The Nature's Trust approach empowers citizens worldwide to protect their inalienable ecological rights for generations to come. Mary Christina Wood is a law professor at the University of Oregon."--Provided by publisher.

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