Ecological Systems Integrity (eBook, PDF)

Governance, law and human rights
Redaktion: Westra, Laura; Karageorgou, Vasiliki; Gray, Janice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a series of thought-provoking chapters which consider the place of governance and law in the defence against imminent and ongoing threats to ecological, social and cultural integrity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317501329
• Artikelnr.: 49335707

Autorenporträt

Laura Westra is professor emerita (philosophy), University of Windsor, Canada, a sessional instructor at the Faculty of Law, University of Milano (Bicocca), Italy, and visiting professor at the University of Trento, Italy. Janice Gray is senior lecturer at UNSW Law, University of New South Wales, Australia. Vasiliki (Vicky) Karageorgou is assistant professor in European Administrative and Environmental Law at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Biological Integrity, Ecology and the Law 1. Environmental and
Ecological Concerns in Europe and North America Contrasted Laura Westra 2.
Access to Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge and the Fair Sharing
of Benefits: The Way Forward in the EU Sandra Jen 3.A Regional Alternative
to the Ineffective Global Response to Biological Invasions: the Case of the
European Union Donato Gualtieri 4. Redefining the Relationship between CBD
(Convention on Biological Diversity) and the TRIPS Agreement: The First
Step towards Confronting Biopiracy? Anastasia Fotinakopoulou 5. The
Emerging Right to Land in new Soft Law Instruments Margherita Brunori Part
2: The Right to Water and to Food - Climate Change 6 Right to Water:
Intersection between International and Constitutional Law Antonio D'Aloia
7. Law and the Provision of Water for Megacities Joseph W. Dellapenna 8. A
Critique of Subsidies for Industrial Livestock Production in the EU and the
US Constanz Frank Oster 9. Promoting the Ecological Sustainability of
Climate Change Related Investments through the Holistic Impact Assessment
(HIA) Massimiliano Montini Part 3: Environmental Legal Issues in Europe and
Beyond 10. Evaluation and Development of Small Island Communities with
Special Reference to Uninhabited Insular Areas Grigoris Tsaltas,
Alexopoulos Aristotelis, Gerasimos Rodotheatos and Tilemachos Bourtzis 11.
Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in the EU Legal Order: Is there
a Need for a More Coherent and Harmonized Approach? Vasiliki (Vicky)
Karageorgou 12. Unconventional Gas Mining: what a Fracking Story! Policy,
Regulation and Law Janice Gray 13. Hidden and Indirect Effects of War and
Political Violence Yuliya Lyamzina 14. Commonly Unrecognized Benefits of a
Human Rights Approach to Climate Change Donald A. Brown and Benjamin A.
Brown 15. Reconciliation and the Indian Residential School Settlement:
Canada's Coming of Age? Kathleen Mahoney Part 4: Democracy, Ecological
Concerns and the Perils of Environmental Defence 16. Public Health and
Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Which Paradigm and in Whose Best
Interests? Colin L. Soskolne 17. The Environment, Women and Human Rights
Peter Venton 18. Corporate Media, Ecological Challenges and Social Upheaval
Rose A. Dyson 19. A Complex Adaptive Legal System for the Challenges of the
Anthropocene Geoffrey Garver 20. Seeking Justice in a Land without Justice:
The Application of Anti-Corruption Principles to Environmental Law Kathryn
Gwiazdon 21. Environmental Defenders: The Green Peaceful Resistance Susana
Borràs and Antoni Pigrau 22. Mind the Gap: State Governance and Ecological
Integrity Klaus Bosselmann