From Environmental to Ecological Law

Herausgeber: Anker, Kirsten; Garver, Geoffrey; Burdon, Peter D

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9780367431082
• ISBN-10: 0367431084
• Artikelnr.: 60353688

Autorenporträt

Kirsten Anker is Associate Professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. She is a member of McGill's Economics for the Anthropocene (E4A) project, and Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA). Peter D. Burdon is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) at the Adelaide Law School. Geoffrey Garver teaches environmental courses at McGill University and Concordia University and coordinates law and governance research for the Leadership for the Ecozoic program (www.l4ecozoic.org), formerly the Economics for the Anthropocene Partnership (e4a-net.org). He has a PhD in geography and an LLM from McGill University and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School. Michelle Maloney (BA/LLB(Hons) Australian National University, and PhD Griffith University) is Co-Founder and National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), Adjunct Senior Fellow, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University; and Co-Founder and Director of the New Economy Network Australia (NENA). She advocates for systems change to move industrialized societies from a human-centered to an Earth-centered governance system. Carla Sbert is an independent researcher in Quebec, Canada. Born in Mexico, where she studied law at ITAM, she also holds an LLM from Harvard Law School and a PhD in law from the University of Ottawa.

Inhaltsangabe

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