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The philosophical foundations of environmental law : property, rights, and nature / Sean Coyle, Karen Morrow.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2004Description: xv, 228 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1841133590
  • 9781841133591
  • 1841133604
  • 9781841133607
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.41046 22
LOC classification:
  • KD3372 .C69 2004
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Nature and the state of nature -- 3. Commerce, capitalism and the common law -- 4. Legal regulation and environmental values -- 5. The changing face of environmental law.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Nature and the state of nature -- 3. Commerce, capitalism and the common law -- 4. Legal regulation and environmental values -- 5. The changing face of environmental law.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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