LEADER 03791nam 22006971 450 001 9910784279503321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-84113-360-4 010 $a1-4725-6296-8 010 $a1-280-80778-4 010 $a9786610807789 010 $a1-84731-033-8 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472562968 035 $a(CKB)1000000000338488 035 $a(EBL)270810 035 $a(OCoLC)476005634 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000220874 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11198076 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000220874 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10156150 035 $a(PQKB)10922550 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1772728 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC270810 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1772728 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10276304 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL80778 035 $a(OCoLC)893332271 035 $a(OCoLC)191726166 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09256244 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL270810 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000338488 100 $a20140929d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe philosophical foundations of environmental law $eproperty, rights, and nature /$fSean Coyle, Karen Morrow 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford ;$aPortland, Oregon :$cHart Publishing,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (244 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84113-359-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [217]-222) and index. 327 $a1. 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 330 8 $aLegal regulation of the environment is often construed as a collection of legislated responses to the problems of modern living. Treated as such,'environmental law' refers not to a body of distinctive juristic ideas (such as one might find in contract law or tort) but to a body of black-letter rules out of which a distinct jurisprudence might grow. This book challenges the accepted view by arguing that environmental law must be seen not as a mere instrument of social policy, but as a historical product of surprising antiquity and considerable sophistication. 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 606 $aEnvironmental law$xPhilosophy 606 $aEnvironmental law$zGreat Britain 606 $2Environment law 615 0$aEnvironmental law$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEnvironmental law 676 $a344.4104/6 700 $aCoyle$b Sean$01480087 702 $aMorrow$b Karen$f1969- 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784279503321 996 $aThe philosophical foundations of environmental law$93827779 997 $aUNINA