From Environmental to Ecological Law

ISBN-13: 9780367689681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 268 str.

Opis

From Environmental to Ecological Law increases the visibility, clarity and understanding of ecological law. Ecological law is emerging as a field of law founded on systems thinking and the need to integrate ecological limits, such as planetary boundaries, into law.

Recenzje

"Environmental laws confer a green hue upon the ecologically destructive juggernaut that is industrial civilization, without affecting what drives it. This collection of essays explains why it is critical and urgent to transform legal and governance systems so that instead of legitimising the exploitation of Earth, they guide humans to fulfil ecologically beneficial roles within the community of life. More importantly, this book explores how to effect this vital transformation."

Cormac Cullinan, author of Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice

"No more insightful book today explores how environmental laws fail us by addressing symptoms, "externalities," not root causes. Grounding law upon ecological foundations can restore Earth's community of life through a resilient order of evolved norms. This book is essential reading for everyone who struggles with climate disruption and biodiversity's broken web of life."

Nicholas A. Robinson

Former Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law

Executive Governor, International Council of Environmental Law

Kerlin Professor Emeritus, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

"This book offers a stimulating and important perspective."

Edith Brown Weiss

Former Chair of the World Bank Inspection Panel

Georgetown Law, Washington, DC

Spis treści

Introduction  PART 1: Overview: from environmental to ecological law  1. The transformation of environmental law into ecological law  PART 2: Problems with contemporary law: two illustrative examples  2. The targeting of environmentalists with state-corporate intelligence networks  3. Ecological jurisprudence beyond Earth: toward an outer space ethic  PART 3: Solutions in ecological law  4. Ecological law in the Anthropocene  5. Restoring land, restoring law: theorizing ecological law with ecological restoration  6. Are rights of nature radical enough for ecological law?  7. Ecological jurisprudence and Indigenous relational ontologies: beyond the “ecological Indian”?  8. Conjuring sentient beings and relations in the law: rights of nature and a comparative praxis of legal cosmologies in Latin America  9. Needs-based constraints in an ecological law transition  10. The potential of the trusteeship theory for Canadian public law and environmental governance  11. African eco-philosophy on forests: a path worth exploring for the implementation of Earth jurisprudence  PART 4: Challenges in the transition to ecological law  12. Green(ing) legal theory: social logics and their re-formation  13. Lawyers and ecological law  14. Learning sacrifice: legal education in the Anthropocene  15. Tribal ecological knowledge and the transition to ecological law  16. Practical pathways to ecological law: Greenprints and a bioregional, regenerative governance approach for Australia