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Environmental law has failed us all. 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.

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Legal regulation of the environment is often construed as a collection of legislated responses to the problems of modern living. Treated as such,'environmental law' refers not to a body of distinctive juristic ideas (such as one might find in contract law or tort) but to a body of black-letter rules out of which a distinct jurisprudence might grow. This book challenges the accepted view by arguing that environmental law must be seen not as a mere instrument of social policy, but as a historical product of surprising antiquity and considerable sophistication. Environmental law, it is argued, is underpinned by a series of tenets concerning the relationship of human beings to the natural world, through the acquisition and use of property. By tracing these ideas to their roots in the political philosophy of the seventeenth century, and their reception into the early law of nuisance, this book seeks to overturn the perception that environmental law's philosophical significance is confined to questions about the extent to which a state should pursue collective well-being and public health through deliberate manipulation and restriction of private property rights. Through a close re-examination of both early and modern statutes and cases, this book concludes that, far from being intelligible in exclusively instrumental terms, environmental law must be understood as the product of sustained reflection upon fundamental moral questions concerning the relationship between property, rights and nature

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[1995] Les arbres ont-ils le droit de plaider en justice ? Peut-on breveter les cellules d'un individu ? La couche d'ozone peut-elle être cotée en Bourse ? Ces questions apparemment surréalistes sont aujourd'hui au coeur des problèmes qui se posent au droit de l'environnement. Pour François Ost, on ne peut se satisfaire d'un débat technique entre juristes pour résoudre ces controverses. La crise écologique met en jeu toutes nos représentations de l'homme et de la nature. L'auteur renvoie dos à dos les thèses de l'humanisme abstrait à la façon de Luc Ferry, qui ne se donne pas les moyens de penser la complexité des rapports homme-nature, et celles de l'« écologie profonde », qui se coupe de toute possibilité d'agir rationnellement en sacralisant la nature. Il dénonce également les illusions de la régulation marchande de l'environnement et examine les questions de justice écologique à la lumière de la tradition philosophique, de Kant à Rawls et Hans Jonas. Au-delà de la nature-objet manipulable à volonté et de la nature-objet intouchable et sacrée, il plaide pour une nature-projet qui inscrit l'homme dans la complexité des interactions avec son milieu et définit une éthique de la responsabilité soucieuse de notre avenir commun. Au carrefour de la philosophie, de l'écologie et du droit, ce livre informé et engagé propose de nouveaux fondements pour une politique publique de l'environnement.

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