Ecological law and the planetary crisis a legal guide for harmony on earth / Geoffrey Garver.

Author/creator Garver, Geoffrey
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Descriptionpages cm
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Contents The anthropocene as a frame of reference -- The human dilemma in the anthropocene -- Energy transitions in history and their impacts -- How conceptual factors like law helped lead to the anthropocene -- An overview of the failures of environmental law -- Key examples of the inadequacy of environmental law -- What is ecological law? -- A mutually enhancing human-earth relationship as the primary goal for law -- The systems-based perspective underlying ecological law -- The limits-insistent narrative and planetary boundaries -- Eleven core features of ecological law -- Ecological integrity and attachment to place in ecological law -- A systems-based guide for moving from environmental to ecological law -- Overcoming ecological challenges of international trade : an illustration -- The degrowth movement as a testing ground for ecological law.
Abstract "This book uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to examine how Earth's human-caused ecological crisis arose and presents a new legal approach for overcoming it. Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis first examines how the history of humanity's social metabolism, along with the history of human inventions and ideas, led to the human-Earth dilemma we see today and explains why contemporary law is inadequate for confronting this dilemma. The book goes on to propose ecological law-law that maintains human activity within ecological limits such as planetary boundaries while ensuring social justice and equity-as an essential element of an urgently needed radical pathway of change toward a perpetual, mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. Finally, it offers a systems-based analytical tool for organizing actions to promote the transition from environmental to ecological law. Increasing the visibility, clarity and development of ecological law, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecological and environmental law and governance"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2020023199
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