Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World

摘要

The existence of bodies of environmental law, and the ability of citizens to bring their environmental concerns before the courts, is now an actuality in the United States and other parts of the world. Such was not the case until recently. How the change occurred, or in some places failed, and what the results were for the landscape, is presented in a series of meticulously researched and gripping essays by Oliver Houck, professor of law at Tulane University and author of many studies on environmental law.