Part 1 Environmental, personal and property rights: property rights - "natural" and "unnatural" uses of property; property rights - nuisance - when uses of land conflict; personal rights - the constitutional right to a decent environment. Part 2 Environmental statutes: statutes - the National Environmental Policy Act and the Wilderness Act, future risk and administrative agencies, extinction and governmental action. Part 3 Fundamental causes of the environmental crisis: fundamental causes - technology, population, the international market, consumerism. Part 4 Law as a means of attaining environmental ideals: environmental ideals - equitable distribution of rights and liabilities, nature as held in public trust, access to court, sustainability and the wise use of public resources.
