Responsability: Law and Governance for Living Well with the Earth

ISBN-13: 9780367734053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Betsan Martin; Linda Te Aho; Maria Humphries-Kil

Opis

With contributions from eminent scholars and leaders, this book explores the ways in which we can move to new governance and legal structures that reflect our changed relationship with Earth in the Anthropocene.

Spis treści

About the authors

Foreword (Justice Antonio Herman Bejamin)

Introduction (Betsan Martin)

Chapter 1. Ngā Pou Rāhui: Responsable Laws for Water and Climate (Betsan Martin)

Chapter 2. Reclaiming the Global Commons: Towards Earth Trusteeship (Klaus Bosselmann)

Chapter 3. Responsibility, State and International Law (Pierre Calame)

Chapter 4. Public Responsibility: A Fundamental Concept Reflected Throughout the Ages; Where did we lose the plot? (Gay Morgan)

Chapter 5. Confronting the Insupportable: Resources of the Law of Responsibility (Alain Supoit)

Chapter 6. Responsibility and the Transformative Role of Law (Neetu Sharma)

Chapter 7. The Principle of Responsibility in the Global Response to Climate Change: Origins and Evolution (Adrian Macey)

Chapter 8. An Ethic of Responsibility in Samoan Customary Law (His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Efi)

Chapter 9. Indigenous Law and Responsible Water Governance (Hon Sir Edward Taihākurei Durie KNZM)

Chapter 10. Governance of Water Based on Responsible Use – An elegant solution? (Linda Te Aho)

Chapter 11. Reflecting on Landscapes of Obligation, their Making and Tacit Constitutionalisation: freshwater claims, proprietorship and ‘stewardship’ (Mark Hickford)

Chapter 12. Rivers As Ancestors And Other Realities: Governance Of Waterways In Aotearoa / New Zealand (Anne Salmond)

Chapter 13. The Power & Potential of the Public Trust: Insight from Hawaiʻi’s Water Battles and Triumphs (Kapua Sproat and Mahina Tuteur)

Chapter 14. From Rights to Responsibilities using Legal Personhood and Guardianship for Rivers (Catherine Iorns Magallanes)

Chapter 15. Making Law (Gerald Torres)

Index

O autorze

Betsan Martin is a founding member and Executive Chair of the International Alliance for Responsible and Sustainable Societies, an inspirational think tank and resource centre working with responsibility as a framework for 21st-century issues. Betsan had a leading role in establishing the UNU Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development at the University of Waikato. She is active with the global network of UNU Centres of Expertise. Betsan’s academic research in philosophy of education specialized in an ethics of responsibility, which informs themes in her work in integrating social, environmental and economic areas. Publications include focus on water governance, responsibility and ethics, education for sustainability, and responsibility in law.

Linda Te Aho is of Waikato-Tainui descent and serves on the tribal executive committee, Te Arataura, and as a director of the commercial entity Tainui Group Holdings Ltd. An Associate Professor in Law, Linda's research focuses on contemporary issues in Law and Governance, with a particular interest in Indigenous Peoples’ rights and responsibilities in relation to land and freshwater issues. Linda was the founding director of the Māori and Indigenous Governance Centre at the University of Waikato and provides legal and strategic advice to both Māori and the Crown in relation to negotiated Treaty Settlements and law reform. Linda served as a guardian under the Waikato River Settlement and is currently the editor of the Waikato Law Review.

Maria Humphries-Kil has academic and research interests in Management Education. She is a co-author of the textbook: Understanding Management Critically (2014). Informing this publication are over 50 academic papers, and many conference contributions.