Ecological Systems Integrity: Governance, Law and Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9781138885103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 306 str.

Westra, Laura

Opis

Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants. This book presents a series of thought-provoking chapters which consider the place of governance and law in the defence against imminent and ongoing threats to ecological, social and cultural integrity. Written by an international team of both established and early-career scholars from various disciplines and backgrounds, the chapters cover the most pressing and contemporary issues in environmental law and governance. These include access and benefit-sharing; the right to food and water; climate change coping and adaptation; human rights; the rights of indigenous communities; public and environmental health; and many more. The book has a general focus on environmental governance and law in the European Union and offers points of comparison with Canada and North and South America.

Spis treści

Part 1: Biological Integrity, Ecology and the Law  1. Environmental and Ecological Concerns in Europe and North America Contrasted  Laura Westra  2. Access to Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge and the Fair Sharing of Benefits: The Way Forward in the EU  Sandra Jen  3.A Regional Alternative to the Ineffective Global Response to Biological Invasions: the Case of the European Union  Donato Gualtieri  4. Redefining the Relationship between CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) and the TRIPS Agreement: The First Step towards Confronting Biopiracy?  Anastasia Fotinakopoulou  5. The Emerging Right to Land in new Soft Law Instruments  Margherita Brunori  Part 2: The Right to Water and to Food – Climate Change  6 Right to Water: Intersection between International and Constitutional Law  Antonio D'Aloia  7. Law and the Provision of Water for Megacities  Joseph W. Dellapenna  8. A Critique of Subsidies for Industrial Livestock Production in the EU and the US  Constanz Frank Oster  9. Promoting the Ecological Sustainability of Climate Change Related Investments through the Holistic Impact Assessment (HIA)  Massimiliano Montini  Part 3: Environmental Legal Issues in Europe and Beyond  10. Evaluation and Development of Small Island Communities with Special Reference to Uninhabited Insular Areas  Grigoris Tsaltas, Alexopoulos Aristotelis, Gerasimos Rodotheatos and Tilemachos  Bourtzis  11. Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in the EU Legal Order: Is there a Need for a More Coherent and Harmonized Approach?  Vasiliki (Vicky) Karageorgou  12. Unconventional Gas Mining: what a Fracking Story! Policy, Regulation and Law  Janice Gray  13. Hidden and Indirect Effects of War and Political Violence  Yuliya Lyamzina  14. Commonly Unrecognized Benefits of a Human Rights Approach to Climate Change  Donald A. Brown and Benjamin A. Brown  15. Reconciliation and the Indian Residential School Settlement: Canada’s Coming of Age?  Kathleen Mahoney  Part 4: Democracy, Ecological Concerns and the Perils of Environmental Defence  16. Public Health and Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Which Paradigm and in Whose Best Interests?  Colin L. Soskolne  17. The Environment, Women and Human Rights  Peter Venton  18. Corporate Media, Ecological Challenges and Social Upheaval  Rose A. Dyson  19. A Complex Adaptive Legal System for the Challenges of the Anthropocene  Geoffrey Garver  20. Seeking Justice in a Land without Justice: The Application of Anti-Corruption Principles to Environmental Law  Kathryn Gwiazdon  21. Environmental Defenders: The Green Peaceful Resistance  Susana Borràs and Antoni Pigrau  22. Mind the Gap: State Governance and Ecological Integrity  Klaus Bosselmann