| 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 and nonuse -- An introduction to 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 -- 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?. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011048643 |
| ISBN | 9780195386066 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 019538606X (hbk. : alk. paper) |
