1st Edition
Ecological Integrity, Law and Governance
Introduction
Laura Westra & Klaus Bosselmann
Part I – Ecological Integrity, Ethics and the Law
1. The State v. The Environment: The Ethical and Legal Implications for State Non-Action in Protecting the Foundations of Life
Kathryn A. Gwiazdon
2. Critical and Analytical Considerations on Climatic Ethics
Marco Ettore Grasso
3. Addressing Climate Change in a Digital Age
Rose A. Dyson
4. Funding Policy Choices: Tax and Global Financial Secrecy
Michelle Gallant
5. Bruno Latour on Ecology and Christian Religion
Philippe Crabbé
Part II – Public Health, Environmental Disasters and Crimes Against Humanity
6. Reforming Reparations for Mass Human Rights Abuses: A Canadian Model
Kathleen Mahoney
7. The Struggle over the Dakota Access Pipeline in the Context of Native American History
Joseph W. Dellapenna
8. Navigating Complexity, Promoting Health: Insights from the emergence of ‘Ecohealth’ and ‘One Health’
Colin L. Soskolne, Martin J. Bunch, Colin D. Butler and Margot W. Parkes
9. Trading Health: A Community Health Impact Assessment Perspective of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Robert Rattle and Laura Tomie
10. Indirect Health Effects Consequent to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, March 11, 2011
Yuliya Lyamzina
11. Civil Society Preventing Environmental Disasters
Anne Venton
12. A Global Update on the Ambit of Unconventional Gas Mining-and an Alternative Framework for Mediating Energy Demands
Janice Gray
Part III – New Challenges to Global Governance
13. The Reactionary Turn in American Environmental Policy: The Trump Effect
Sheila D. Collins
14. Moving From Environmental Law to Ecological Law: Frameworks, Priorities and Strategies
Geoffrey Garver
15. Achieving Traction for Ethics in Environmental Policy-Making
Donald A. Brown
16. Planet Ocean and Marine Protected Areas: An Opportunity for Ecological Commons Governance
Prue Taylor
Part IV – The Future of Ecological Integrity
17. Towards World Federalism for International Peace and a Sustainable Environment
Peter Venton
18. A Utopian Democratic Revolution to Overcome Flawed Democracy and Ecological Catastrophe
Donato Bergandi
19. Can the Philanthropic Imperative Enhance International Health Care?
Paul Carrick
20. The Uses of Poetry to Effect Positive Climate-Change Policy
Joan Gibb Engel
21. Can the Earth Charter Movement Be Renewed? The Covenantal Promise of the Earth Charter Movement
J. Ronald Engel
Conclusion: The Ever-Increasing Importance of Ecological Integrity in International and National Law
Klaus Bosselmann
Biography
Laura Westra is Professor Emerita (Philosophy) and Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada, and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Jurisprudence, University of Parma, Italy.
Klaus Bosselmann is Professor of Law and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law at the University of Auckland.
Janice Gray is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at The University of New South Wales, Australia.
Kathryn Gwiazdon is Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Ethics and Law, a US-based non-profit organization.
