The Right of Nonuse

Acknowedgments Part I - INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: The Nature of Nature Part II - A SOCIAL - ECONOMIC HISTORY OF RESOURCE USE AND NONUSE Chapter 2: Defining Natural Resources Use and Nonuse Chapter 3: Era I - The Age of Human Survival Chapter 4: Era II - The Age of the Market Chapter 5: Era III - The Age of Property Chapter 6: Era IV - The Anthrocene Age Chapter 7: Era V - The Age of Ecocentrism Part III - A LEGAL HISTORY OF RESOURCE USE AND NONUSE Chapter 8: An Introduction to Law and Natural Resources Chapter 9: First Generation Laws: Creating Use Interests in Natural Resources Chapter 10: Second Generation Laws: Protecting Human Nonuse Interests Chapter 11: Proposed Second Generation Laws: Protecting Human Nonuse Interests by Acknowledging the Public Interest in Natural Resources Chapter 12: Toward a Third Generation of Non-Anthropocentric Resource Nonuse Laws Part IV - REVEALING THE NONUSE COMPONENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Chapter 13: The Biology of Resource Nonuse Chapter 14: The Science of Resource Nonuse Chapter 15: The Economics of Resource Nonuse Part V - TOWARD A LEGALLY-ACKNOWLEDGED RIGHT OF NONUSE Chapter 16: The Problem of Government Regulation: The Emerging Shift from Anthropocentric to Ecocentric Nonuse Laws Chapter 17: The Problem of Rights Creation: Can Natural Resources Have Legal Rights? Chapter 18: The Problem of Standing: May Natural Resources Raise Their Own Right of Nonuse? Index