Burns H. Weston, David Bollier

Green Governance

Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Proposes a new architecture of environmental law and public policy that is as practical as it is theoretically sound.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9781107034365
• ISBN-10: 1107034361
• Artikelnr.: 36683708

Autorenporträt

Burns H. Weston is the Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Senior Scholar of the Center for Human Rights at the University of Iowa. A long-time - now honorary - member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, he has authored and co-authored many books and articles, especially in international human rights and related international law fields. He is known as an 'engaged scholar' and for his activism and scholarship bridging human rights and environmental law, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) by Vermont Law School in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Trends that point toward a new synthesis
2. The human right to a clean and healthy environment
3. The quest for a new rights-based pathway
4. Making the conceptual transition to the new paradigm
5. The commons as a model for ecological governance
6. The rise of the commons movement globally
7. Imagining a new architecture of law and policy to support the ecological commons
8. Catalytic strategies for achieving green governance.