Green Justice

Thomas More Hoban, a New Hampshire attorney, also serves as environmental consultant to several major manufacturing corporations. Richard Oliver Brooks was founding director of the Environmental Law Center and is professor of law at the Vermont Law School. Thomas More Hoban, a New Hampshire attorney, also serves as environmental consultant to several major manufacturing corporations. Richard Oliver Brooks was founding director of the Environmental Law Center and is professor of law at the Vermont Law School.

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.