Intergenerational Trusts and Environmental Protection

Price: $85.00 200 pages. 1 Hardcover Volume. Table of Cases. Index. Published October 1999.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57823-034-1 / ISBN-10: 1-57823-034-9

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Book Overview

List of abbreviations

Table of major treaties and instruments

1 Introduction

• Trust law and environmental protection
• Private law techniques for environmental regulation
• Conclusion

2 Private and charitable trust concepts in municipal law

• Introduction
• Private trusts
• Charitable trusts
• Trust institutions: the National Trust
• Trust fund
• Conclusion

3 Public trust doctrine

• Introduction
• The development of the doctrine
• The effect of the public trust
• Why use the public trust doctrine?
• The public trust doctrine as a trust law concept
• Conclusion

4 The concept of the trust in international law: intergenerational or planetary trust?

• The theory of intergenerational equity
• Intergenerational rights and obligations
• Implementing and enforcing trust obligations
• Evaluation of the theory of intergenerational equity
• Intergenerational equity
• Conclusion

5 The legal status of intergenerational equity under international law

• Recognition of intergenerational equity in international legal instruments
• Planetary obligations and duties of use
• ‘Creeping intergenerationalisation’ and relevant principles of international environmental law
• Conclusion

6 International trusteeship and trust funds

• Introduction
• International trusteeship
• Breach of trust under the Mandates and Trusteeship Systems
• The trust concept: a general principle of international law?
• Defining the trust
• Conclusion

7 Conclusion

Table of cases

Index