Book contents
- Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature
- Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: Constructing Nature through Law
- 1 Nature in a Constructed World: Grounding the Constructivist Method
- 2 An Unnatural Divide: How Law Obscures Individual Environmental Harms
- 3 Defining Nature as a Common Pool Resource
- 4 Property Constructs and Nature’s Challenge to Perpetuity
- 5 Perceiving Change and Knowing Nature: Shifting Baselines and Nature’s Resiliency
- 6 Animals and Law in the American City
- 7 Boundaries of Nature and the American City
- 8 Constructing Nature the Radical Way: Extreme Environmentalism and Law
- 9 Wilderness Imperatives and Untrammeled Nature
- 10 Native American Values and Laws of Exclusion
- 11 Challenging What Appears “Natural”: The Environmental Justice Movement’s Impact on the Environmental Agenda
- 12 The Transformation of Water
- 13 Framing Watersheds
- 14 The Last, Last Frontier
- Index
4 - Property Constructs and Nature’s Challenge to Perpetuity
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Book contents
- Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature
- Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: Constructing Nature through Law
- 1 Nature in a Constructed World: Grounding the Constructivist Method
- 2 An Unnatural Divide: How Law Obscures Individual Environmental Harms
- 3 Defining Nature as a Common Pool Resource
- 4 Property Constructs and Nature’s Challenge to Perpetuity
- 5 Perceiving Change and Knowing Nature: Shifting Baselines and Nature’s Resiliency
- 6 Animals and Law in the American City
- 7 Boundaries of Nature and the American City
- 8 Constructing Nature the Radical Way: Extreme Environmentalism and Law
- 9 Wilderness Imperatives and Untrammeled Nature
- 10 Native American Values and Laws of Exclusion
- 11 Challenging What Appears “Natural”: The Environmental Justice Movement’s Impact on the Environmental Agenda
- 12 The Transformation of Water
- 13 Framing Watersheds
- 14 The Last, Last Frontier
- Index
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- Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of NatureA Constructivist Approach, pp. 64 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014