Readership: -Law professors -Academics in environmental ethics and philosophy, resource economics, natural biology, and ecology -Students -Law school libraries -Policy-makers
Jan G. Laitos, John A. Carver, Jr. Professor of Law, Univ. of Denver, Sturm College of Law
Jan G. Laitos is the John A. Carver, Jr. Chair in Natural Resources and Environmental Law at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. Previously, he was the law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, and worked in the Office of Legal Counsel for the United States Department of Justice. Jan Laitos served as Vice Chair and Commissioner on the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission, and is a trustee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. He is the author of the authoritative treatise in the property rights field entitled: Law of Property Rights (1999). He is also the author of: The Law of Hazardous Waste and Toxic Substances, 2nd ed. (2008) and Pioneers in Environmental Law (2008).
"This important book from the Oxford University Press offers a new perspective on the law and policy of nature and the conservation of resources. It could well be destined to become a classic in environmental law." - Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers
Acknowedgments Part I - INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: The Nature of Nature Part II - A SOCIAL - ECONOMIC HISTORY OF RESOURCE USE AND NONUSE Chapter 2: Defining Natural Resources Use and Nonuse Chapter 3: Era I - The Age of Human Survival Chapter 4: Era II - The Age of the Market Chapter 5: Era III - The Age of Property Chapter 6: Era IV - The Anthrocene Age Chapter 7: Era V - The Age of Ecocentrism Part III - A LEGAL HISTORY OF RESOURCE USE AND NONUSE Chapter 8: An Introduction to Law and Natural Resources Chapter 9: First Generation Laws: Creating Use Interests in Natural Resources Chapter 10: Second Generation Laws: Protecting Human Nonuse Interests Chapter 11: Proposed Second Generation Laws: Protecting Human Nonuse Interests by Acknowledging the Public Interest in Natural Resources Chapter 12: Toward a Third Generation of Non-Anthropocentric Resource Nonuse Laws Part IV - REVEALING THE NONUSE COMPONENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Chapter 13: The Biology of Resource Nonuse Chapter 14: The Science of Resource Nonuse Chapter 15: The Economics of Resource Nonuse Part V - TOWARD A LEGALLY-ACKNOWLEDGED RIGHT OF NONUSE Chapter 16: The Problem of Government Regulation: The Emerging Shift from Anthropocentric to Ecocentric Nonuse Laws Chapter 17: The Problem of Rights Creation: Can Natural Resources Have Legal Rights? Chapter 18: The Problem of Standing: May Natural Resources Raise Their Own Right of Nonuse? Index
