Confronting ecological and economic collapse
Subtitle: ecological integrity for law, policy and human rights
By: edited by Laura Westra, Prue Taylor and Agnès Michelot
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780415825252; 9780203384022
Subjects: Climatic changes; International economic relations; Effect of climate on; International Environmental law; Economic forecasting; Financial crises; Human beings; Ecological integrity
Description: "From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines. This volume discusses the need for ecological integrity as a major guiding principle in a variety of policy areas, to counter the present ecological and economic crises with their multiple effects on human rights. The book celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Global Ecological Integrity Group and reassesses the basic concept of ecological integrity in order to show how a future beyond catastrophe and disaster is in fact possible, but only if civil society and ultimately legal regimes acknowledge the necessity to consider ecointegrity as a primary factor in decision-making. This is key to the support of basic rights to clean air and water, for halting climate change, and also the basic rights of women and indigenous people. As the authors clearly show, all these rights ultimately depend upon accepting policies that acknowledge the pivotal role of ecological integrity"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.