Protecting Wetlands under Current Law -- Restoration of Wetlands: What Does It Mean in Practice? -- Still Wetlands Disappear and Are Degraded: What Can Be Done? -- Management Considerations for a Rights of Nature System -- Forests and Grasslands -- Wetlands -- Endnotes -- Chapter 11: Water -- Water: The Rights of Nature -- Water Is the Basis of Human Life and All Life on Earth -- Existing Legal Systems and Governance of Water -- Riparian Rights -- Prior Appropriation -- Reserved Rights -- Water Infrastructure -- Local Water Infrastructure -- Interstate Water Infrastructure -- Pollution and the Hydrological Cycle -- Agriculture and Pollution: Same Story, Different Place -- How Aboveground Water-Borne Pollutants Get into the Ocean -- How Belowground Water-Borne Pollutants Get into the Ocean -- Climate Change and the Hydrological Cycle -- Environmental Laws -- Clean Water Act -- Safe Drinking Water Act -- Finding the Waters Again -- Management Considerations for a Rights of Nature System -- Endnotes -- Chapter 12: Air and Climate -- Air and Climate: Rights of Nature -- Air and How It Works -- The Gift of Oxygen -- Dust -- The Effect of Climate -- Air Pollution and Its Sources -- Internal Combustion Engines -- Coal-Fired Power Plants -- Hydraulic Fracturing -- Laws Regulating Air Quality and Air Pollution -- Climate Change -- The Kyoto Protocol -- The Cancun Agreements -- Later Efforts and the Paris Talks -- Has It Worked? -- Management Considerations for a Rights of Nature System -- Endnotes -- Section V : Rights of Nature in Practice -- Chapter 13: Food Supply -- The Rights of Nature -- From Family Farms to Corporate Farms -- The History of a Change in American Agriculture -- Today's Worldwide Trends in Agriculture -- Ecosystems and Agricultural Systems -- Plants -- Livestock -- Reinvigorating Family Farms and Traditional Methods of Farming