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Green Property, J. Peter Byrne
Green Property, J. Peter Byrne
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay begins an effort to imagine legal principles that further ecological values and to criticize extant principles that embody the antithetical values of exploitation and consumption. I will focus on the transformation of property law inherent in adopting an environmentally sustainable land use program.
Our Rights And Obligations To Future Generations For The Environment, Edith Brown Weiss
Our Rights And Obligations To Future Generations For The Environment, Edith Brown Weiss
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
We read every day about the desecration of our environment and the mismanagement of our natural resources. We have always had the capacity to wreck the environment on a small or even regional scale. Centuries of irrigation without adequate drainage in ancient times converted large areas of the fertile Tigris-Euphrates valley into barren desert. What is new is that we now have the power to change our global environment irreversibly, with profoundly damaging effects on the robustness and integrity of the planet and the heritage that we pass to future generations.