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    Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World
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    Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World

    By Oliver A. Houck

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    Taking Back Eden is the gripping tale of an idea—that ordinary people have the right to go to court to defend their environment—told through the stories of lawsuits brought in eight countries around the world. Starting in the United States in the l960’s, this idea is now traveling the planet, with impacts not just on imperiled environments but on systems of justice and democracy. It has brought people back into the question of governing the quality of their lives. Author Oliver Houck describes the sites under contention in their place and time, the people who rose up, their lawyers, strategies, obstacles, setbacks and victories. Written for general readers, students, and lawyers alike, Taking Back Eden tells the stories of a lone fisherman inton protecting the Hudson River, a Philippine lawyer boarding illegal logging ships from the air, the Cree Indian Nation battling for its hunting grounds, and a civil rights attorney who set out to save the Taj Mahal. The cases turn on Shinto and Hindu religions, dictatorships in Greece and Chile, regime changes in Russia, and on a remarkable set of judges who saw a crisis and stepped up to meet it in similar ways. Spontaneously, without communication among each other, their protagonists created a new brand of law and hope for a more sustainable world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateJun 22, 2012
    ISBN9781610911504
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    Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World
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    Oliver A. Houck

    Oliver A. Houck is professor of law and David Boies Chair in Public Interest Law at Tulane University. He has received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Environmental Section of the American Bar Association and Louisiana’s Conservationist of the Year. He is author of The Clean Water Act TMDL Program: Law, Policy, and Implementation; Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases That Changed the World; Downstream Toward Home: A Book of Rivers; and Uijongbu: A Soldier’s Life in Korea.

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