Property rights and endangered species
Date
1990
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
University of Colorado Law School, publisher
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Abstract
Human property rights have been well analyzed in legal and moral traditions, but human duties to endangered species are novel. The "adequate concern and conservation" that Congress in the Endangered Species Act makes imperative lies outside traditional legal property rights and outside classical ethical theory. The Act is visionary and implementing it is forcing seminal rethinking. We probe a tension between respect for life at the species level and respect for property.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject
economics
environmental ethics
rare plants
trustees
landowners
Nature Conservancy
Endangered Species Act
plants
conservation
regulations