Green Justice: Environment and the Courts

About this book

Exploration of the relationship between the legal system and the environment, using key environmental case studies. `....makes an ideal companion volume within environmental policy courses' - Carl Reider, Director, New England Policy Centre.

Contents

* Introduction Environmental, Personal, And Property Rights * Property Rights: Natural and Unnatural Uses of Property * Property Rights: NuisanceWhen Uses of Land Conflict * Personal Rights: The Constitutional Right to a Decent Environment Environmental Statutes * Statutes: The National Environmental Policy Act and The Wilderness Act * Statutes: Future Risk and Administrative Agencies * Statutes: Extinction and Governmental Action Fundamental Causes Of The Environmental Crisis * Fundamental Causes: Technology * Fundamental Causes: Population * Fundamental Causes: The International Market Economy * Fundamental Causes: Consumerism Law As A Means Of Attaining Environmental Ideals * Environmental Ideals: Equitable Distribution of Rights and Liabilities * Environmental Ideals: Nature as Held in Public Trust * Environmental Ideals: Access to Court * Environmental Ideals: Sustainability and the Wise Use of Public Resources * Conclusion

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