Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene (eBook, ePUB)

Values, Principles and Actions
Redaktion: Amirante, Domenico; Bagni, Silvia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between man and nature through different cultural approaches to encourage new environmental legislation as a means of fostering acceptance at a local level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000567427
• Artikelnr.: 63703016

Autorenporträt

Domenico Amirante is Full Professor of Italian and Comparative Public Law, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Law and Processes of Integration; Director of the Triennial Course in Political Science, Faculty of Political Science, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. He was Director of the Ph.D. Program on Italian and Comparative Public and Environmental Law, University of Naples II from 2001 to 2010. He has been appointed as expert member within the project for the Global Pact for the Environment. He has also been appointed by the Italian Ministry of the Environment as expert member of the Commission for Environmental Amendments to the Italian Constitution. Silvia Bagni is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna. She has a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the University of Bologna and an MA in Bioethics from the UPRA, Rome. She is an expert for the Harmony with Nature Program, Panel 1, Earth-centered Law, United Nations and a member of the Alma Mater Research Institute on Global Challenges and Climate Change.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

Section I - Values

1 Integral Ecology and Environmental Law in the Anthropocene: the perspective of the Catholic Church

2 Ecological Crisis: the Self, State and the Hindu Ethics

3 Ubuntu as a Normative Value in the New Environmental World Order

4 Rights of Nature vs. Human Rights? An Urgent Shift of Paradigms

5 Environmental Ethics in Islam and Greener Shifts Away from Fossil Fuel Dependence in the Middle East

6 The Noble Eightfold Path in the Anthropocene: Buddhist Perspectives on Environmental Constitutionalism

Section II - Principles and Rules

1 From the Principles of International Environmental Law to Environmental Constitutionalism: Competitive or Cooperative Influences?

2 Environmental constitutionalism through the lens of comparative law: new perspectives for the Anthropocene

3 Ecosystem rights and the Anthropocene in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

4 The Animal as a Concern for a Renewed Analysis of the Legal Link Between Man and the Environment

Section III - Enforcement and Environmental Justice

1 Courting the Environment: Public Interest Litigation at the Bar of Environmental law

2 The enforcement of new environmental rights through the courts: problems and possible solutions

3 Vanguardism and environmental justice developments in Colombia

Afterword
Final Rallying Call on the Brutal Realities of the Anthropocene and the Necessity of Cosmoprudence to Minimise Human Suffering

Index