Mary Christina Wood on her book NATURE’S TRUST: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FOR A NEW ECOLOGICAL AGE

Mary Christina Wood has taught Environmental Law for over 20 years and is Faculty director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Oregon School of Law. She discusses with host Roberta Hall her book NATURE’S TRUST: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FOR A NEW ECOLOGICAL AGE. It describes, in detail, the failure of statutory law to protect the environment. It presents the legal concept of the public trust, describing its history, its basis in law, and its many applications.  Applied throughout history in many countries, the trust holds governmental agencies and elected officials accountable for protecting the earth and her resources, with beneficiaries being the public of today and of the future. The book was published in 2014 by Cambridge University Press.