Stone C.D. Should Trees Have Standing? Law, Morality, and the Environment

Oxfort University Press, 2010. — 264 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-973607-2.Christopher D. Stone is an authority on environmental and global issues, including international environmental law, environmental ethics, and trade and the environment. He taught Property, Globalization, Rights of Groups, and International Environmental Law.
In this collection of essays, the author argues that natural objects, such as trees, should have legal rights through the appointment of guardians designated to protect them. It covers such areas as: agriculture and the environment; can the oceans be harbored; establishing a guardian for future generations; refl ections on sustainable development; how to heal the planet; environmentalism, is it dead?Should trees have standing?: toward legal rights for natural objects
Does the climate have standing?
Agriculture and the environment: challenges for the new millennium
Can the oceans be harbored?
Should we establish a guardian for future generations?
Reflections on “sustainable development”
How to heal the planet
Is environmentalism dead?
Epilogue

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