Introduction: Replacing the standard algorithm for environmental law -- Part 1: Utilitarian science and a presumption of separation -- The standard model of nature and humans, and the historic presumption of separation -- Environmental laws and the rule of separation -- Part II: Look at Mother Nature on the run -- The reckoning -- Part III: Explanatory science and a new presumption of entanglement -- A more realistic model of nature and humans, reflecting a presumption of entanglement -- Environmental laws reflecting a presumption of entanglement -- The paralysis paradox and the untapped role of explanatory science in solving big environmental problems -- Part IV: No need for more law, only different law -- The laws of nature and the principle of universality -- Environmental law and the universal laws of nature -- Part V: Symmetrical environmental protections : reciprocal rights and duties conforming to nature's laws -- A positive legal right for the social-ecological system -- A positive duty imposed on humans to ensure the survival of Earth's SES.
Summary:
"Challenging historic assumptions about human relationships with nature, Jan G. Laitos examines how environmental laws have addressed environmental problems in the past, and the reasons for the laws' inability to successfully prevent environmental contamination and alterations of critical environmental systems. This forward-thinking book offers a creative and organic alternative to traditional but ultimately unsuccessful environmental rules. It explains the need for a new generation of environmental laws grounded in the universal laws of nature which might succeed where past and current approaches have largely failed."
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